Victor C. von Buchstab, Technical Field Editor

An only-slightly-scathed survivor of a noisy birth in Berlin in 1941, followed by 26 different graded-schools in Germany, Austria, Alsace-Lorraine, Switzerland, and Canada, Victor has been in the communications business since 1969, following eight years in the research and high-technology fields. After joining Maclean Hunter in 1969, he was Editor with Southam Communications Inc, Corpus Inc. (later another Southam Group) as newsletter editor, with additional responsibilities for the firm's environmental law legislative information services and organizer of two major, national conferences. He has been Editor of: Stereo Video Guide; Canadian Plastics; Canadian Controls + Instruments; Eco Log Week; Administrative Digest; Data Canada; Electrical News & Engineering; and Canadian Facility Management + Design magazine. Currently he is Technical Field Editor for Design Engineering and Canadian FundRaiser, concurrently with being Contributing Editor on MarketNews. He also provides complete editorial packages, from time to time, for various newspaper supplements, including The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail, National Post The Gazette (Montreal) and other newspapers.

Victor's work has been published in a broad stable of Canadian and American publications, including: The Financial Post, Today, Physician/Sportsmedicine, Ski Canada, Eco/Log Week, Executive, Humber Magazine World, Toronto Star's City Magazine, Dialogue, Gifts & Tablewares, Canadian Research, Canadian Petroleum, The Loyalist Gazette, CGA Magazine, The Toronto Sun, The Medical Post, and dozens of others, on topics ranging from arts and crafts, through humor, history and the future, to science and technology.

When he’s not writing about hardware or software, on the tennis court or teaching the Tango, Viktor gets on-line with his grand-daughter, Melanie.