Position: |
Document Control Supervisor at Air Atlanta Icelandic |
| Primary Industry of company: | Aviation, Transportation, through Wet-Leasing. |
| Böðvar's Primary Line of Work: | Publishing, Layout. |
More than 20 years experience in the publishing business and grahpical layout.
Also experience in SGML, XML and HTML in the document authoring and publishing
using DTD and CSS.
Three years and some 25 books experience in Adobe FrameMaker, both structured and
ustructured.
Graphical Layout, publishing (hard copy, digital) using SingleSourcing tehchniques mostly based on FrameMaker to PDF/HTML/XML. Document Approval Control.
Document Control Supervisor
with Air Atlanta Icelandic (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees)
since August 1995 – Present (9 years 6 months)
In charge of the approval procedure of controlled documents that need authorization.
Also in charge of layout and structure of manuals, handbooks etc. that fall under controlled documents.
Had the management of the publication, including ordering print jobs and seeing them through until recent merger of Air Atlanta and Íslandsflug, when there was announced the intent of making structural changes in the writing/publishing of the consolidated firm.
Am now mainly managing the layout and publishing of essential in-house written
manuals.
The company's Adobe (TM) FrameMaker (R) specialist in unstructured as well as
structured writing and single sourcing.
Earlier profession:
Owner / Manager
Sjónvarpsdagskráin (Privately Held; 3 employees plus 10-20 paperboys)
September 1981 – December 1994 (13 years 4 months)
Publishing/Printin Industry
Publishing and later also printing of a local weekly TV Guide and Advertising paper distributed all through the West of Icealnd (Vesturland).
Other printjobs (Offset printing).
MicroType, Inc. (http://www.microtype.com)
FrameMaker and Acrobat studies, December 2002
One week intence set of courses on:
An update course in June 2003 after a FrameUsers Conference in West Palm Beach, FL.
Bright Path Solutions, North Carolina, USA (http://www.travelthepath.com)
Structured FrameMaker, June 2001 – June 2001.
One week course on how to use FrameMaker for structured writing using and making Element Definition Document (EDD).
Endurmenntunarstofnun Háskóla Íslands (University of Iceland)
XML, a one week course in the basics of XML and XSLT.
Tölvuskólinn
PHP/MySQL
Tölvuskóli
Advanced MS Word.
Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland)
(Various exterior incidents lead to my ceasing the studies. I am still very enthusiastic about Christianity and am doing studies on my own as much as my time allows.)
Fjellhaug Bibel og missionsskoler, Oslo
2-årig Forstander/forkynner kursus
Theological training for preachers and pastors
August 1967 – June 1969
Menntaskólinn á
Akureyri [edit]
Stúdentspróf,
Máladeild, October 1963 – June 1967
You can provide additional notes on your experience at this school.
Activities and Societies: KFUM, Akureyri (Icelandic YMCA)
Education is listed in chronological order, with most recent at the top.
Text encoding and parsing of document contents
(SGML/XML/EDD/HTML),
Christianity,
Open Source software (GNU
Linux etc),
Free Software,
My own website including my late
father's Bible Commentaries which I am inching up on the internet
(http://www.bodvar.net)
KFUM (YMCA)
Verið þátttakandi í KFUM frá unga aldri, enda faðir minn stofnandi félagsins á Akureyri.
Hef verið í stjórn KFUM&K á Akranesi í nokkur ár. Var einnig nokkur ár í stjórn
Landssambands KFUM og KFUK.
RGLUG (http://www.rglug.org,
ÍsTeX (http://rhi.hi.is/istex)
Enthusiastic about TeX as a free (as in freedom and beer) set of software for
layout and publishing.
Wrote an article in the first issue of SamanTeXt (Dec. 2004, which is freely accessible
in PDF format at this website (http://rhi.hi.is/istex/samantext/index.html).
You can add any honors and awards you have received to your profile.
Active in discussion regarding FrameMaker (see forums at http://www.frameusers.com
Have written several articles, political (various papers), religious (Bjarmi) and professional on publishing and also software related (SamanTeXt).
Sean Brierley was with another company when working with you July 7, 2004:
Bodvar is an experienced technical writer who organizes content in a formal structure that provides workflow efficiency for his employer and quality documentation for his audience. He is a proficient Adobe FrameMaker user and comfortable in a variety of computing environments. Moreover, Bodvar enjoys sharing knowledge with others and participates well in professional tech-writing environments.
Kay Ethier was a consultant or contractor to you July 12, 2004:
I worked with Bodvar when he moved his company's docs into the FrameMaker+SGML/XML world. This was when XML was young. Bodvar had a vision for the next step for their documentation. The books he has produced are well designed and easy-to-navigate. In my dealings with Bodvar I found him to be a visionary and a great process manager.