CV – Professional Curriculum Vitae Ing. Martin Adámek

 

Map: Náchod and Meziměstí; in Czechia, at state border with Poland (north state border of Czech Republic)
  • E-mail and phone:
    Not given at public (web) version of CV,
    see contact information at website ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/en/contact/).
  • Personal website:
    adamek.cz ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/)
  • Current residence:
    Meziměstí, district Náchod, region Hradec Králové, Czechia
  • Year of birth:
    1983

 

 


Driver C+E / LKW-Fahrer

  • Driving licence category C+E+95, D+E+95
  • Psychotests
  • Driver memory card for the digital tachograph
  • A very short initial experience with semitrailer truck C+E
    (as a substitute; during my holiday from my main job)
  • Experience B+E 20 years (occasionally)
  • Interest in road transport; technical education
     
  • Languages:
    • English fluently (B2)
    • Czech native
    • Polish fluently (C1)
    • Slovak passively
    • Basics of Russian (B2)
    • Very poor basics of German (A1)
    • Navigational bits from a mixture of Romance languages

I am interested in part-time job.
E.g. driving some weeks; possibly another option; by arrangement, to make it sense for both parties.

 

Why I want to be a professional driver:

 
 

Proč chci za volant:

  • Celý život mám kladný vztah k užitkovým automobilům a silniční dopravě.
  • Při magisterském studiu jsem rozvážel zboží s dodávkami
    (Ford Transit L, Peugeot J5 Maxi, Iveco Turbo Daily Maxi, ...).
  • Během magisterského studia jsem si ŘP rozšířil na B+E.
  • Jako veterána jsem si pořídil Škodu 1203 ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/skoda-1203/madarsko/);
    a na běžné ježdění Opel Combo (teď už youngtimer, nastávající veterán).
  • Ke čtyřicátinám jsem si ŘP rozšířil na sk. C a následně na C+E a D+E,
    původně mj. pro radost a pro jistotu,
    ale hned po zkouškách D a C + E se mi po velkém volantu začalo stýskat.
    Tak jsem si doplnil ještě profesák, abych mohl opravdu jezdit.
  • Řízení kamionu byl můj sen z dětství,
    a po cca 30 letech jsem se ho rozhodl na částečný úvazek realizovat.
  • Od promoce pracuji hlavou
    (programování; výuka ICT, především na univerzitě; výuka češtiny, především soukromě; cestopisná promítání),
    a chtěl bych si tu hlavu pravidelně čistit.
  • Jako student jsem na kole na těžko navštívil 22 evropských států.
  • Mám dobré navigační schopnosti.

 


General profile

  • Teacher; Author
  • Technology; Languages
 
 
 
  • Analytical skills
    (deep and thorough thinking)
  • Systems thinking
    (elements' relations, analogies, structure, tables, in context)
  • Sense for detail
    (thoroughness)

Teaching

  • mostly for adult students
  • teacher of Czech language for Polish speakers since 2011
  • private teacher since 2009
  • university teacher (ICT) 2008 to 2013
  • (bicycle traveller – live narrated travelogue presentations 2004 to 2019)
  • (instructor / group leader at children's summer camps 2000 to 2009)

Technology

  • professionally:
    web & database programmer
    (completely; from technical project to realisation;
    PHP and MySQL (MariaDB); full-stack;
    accessibility for blind users, for users with low vision, for unusual devices, older devices, mobile devices;
    with low hardware and connection requirements)
  • interests:
    history of technology,
    road vehicles, road transport, utility vehicles, oldtimers and youngtimers,
    communication technology (radio communication, elder phones)
  • master' degree:
    ICT and management
  • high school:
    Electrical Engineering and ICT
  • three registered technical solutions – utility models (small patents)
  • amateur radio qualification (highest level; unrestricted)
  • driving licence for all categories of road vehicles

Languages

  1. CS native speaker + private teacher
  2. PL C1
  3. SK passively
  4. EN B2
  5. RU B2
  6. DE A1

Creative work

  • writing (two non-fiction books; a lot of articles)
  • tables, overviews, comparisons, vocabulary tables
  • formerly also photography, occasional video making
  • programming
  • and other work where I can see results, an output

 


Apos
Family wholesale and retail company – all needed work

 
  • Approx. 2002 – 2008 (during full-time Master's studies)
    primarily van driver
    • Mainly goods delivery
      (routes of approx. 1–10 stops; approx. 5–150 km; customer contact)
    • Additionally inbound goods transport
      (round trip of approx. 1–3 locations; approx. 100–350 km)
    • Opel Combo, Ford Transit L, Peugeot J5 Maxi, Iveco Turbo Daily Maxi
    • Occasionally a van–trailer combination with a total weight around 5 tons
 
 
 
  • Pavel Adámek – Apos / SOPA s r.o. (Náchod)
  • Various types of work over time, to varying extents depending on possibilities;
    from childhood until around the period during my doctoral studies;
    approx. 1991 – 2011
  • Sales and customer care
    • Wholesale
      (B2B sales at warehouse)
    • Wholesale sales from a van
      (at customer's premises; customers selected goods on-site;
      before widespread internet use – due to age, only as a co-driver)
    • Retail
      (mainly toys, school supplies, stationery)
    • Direct deliveries of office and packaging supplies to companies
      (order-based van delivery – as a driver;
      and, when needed, also customer issue handling)
  • Warehouse work
    (incoming goods inspection and storage, inventory checks, handling, picking and preparing goods for delivery or collection)
  • Office work
    (phones, faxes, letters, invoicing, ordering, accounting preparation, …)
  • Care of ICT equipment
    (including qualified service programming of the private branch telephone switchboard)
  • Leaflet and website preparation;
    inspection and assessment (and possibly repairing) of returns;
    auxiliary tasks; …

 


University of Hradec Králové,
Faculty of Informatics and Management,
Department of Information Technologies
 
Internal/external PhD student,
external
teacher

  • 2008-09 – 2013-08
  • Reference ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/uhk-fim-kit-en.jpg)
 
 
 
  • Since 2008 subject „Technologies for Web Publishing 1
    • XHTML, CSS,
      basics of web usability and accessibility
      (including responsiveness),
      semantics, and SEO
    • Gradually added:
      seminars, lectures,
      innovation of the subject,
      teaching in English
      for international students,
      and teaching for students in combined (part-time) form of study
  • Since 2009 subject „Computer Principles”
    • Numeral systems,
      binary logic
      ,
      basics of electrical engineering
    • Seminars
  • Supervising and reviewing of bachelor's and master's diploma thesis
  • Czech name of the workplace:
    Univerzita Hradec Králové,
    Fakulta informatiky a managementu,
    Katedra informačních technologií
    (UHK FIM KIT)

 


Felax
Senior developer (programmer) and architect
of websites, web applications (database-oriented) and web portals

 
 
 
 

Websites and Database-oriented Web Applications
– Technical Design, Programming, Coding

  • Senior developer (programmer) and architect
    of websites, web applications (database-oriented) and web portals
  • Technical aspect comprehensively – from structure design to code implementation
  • 2012-03 – 2014-09 employee
  • Later on subcontractor

Complete realisation of web applications and websites
except for graphic design, flash and content

  • Analysis of client’s requirements and needs
  • Design of website hierarchy and structure of URL (realisation in .htaccess / mod rewrite – also for more domains by one project and for various language versions)
  • Design, optimization and realisation of database structure
    (including data imports from another systems)
  • Back-end and front-end programming (PHP, MySQL, JS, AJAX)
  • Front-end coding
    (XHTML/HTML5, CSS 3; semantics, responsiveness, accesibility, SEO)
  • Communication with API and data import (info services; booking; payments; FB apps)
  • Partially modification of texts; language and typographical proofreading
  • Cooperation with graphic designers
    • communication of requierements and possibilities to achieve responsive design
  • Cooperation with author of flash applications
    • communication to define our internal protocol for cooperation of my web applications (web portal) with his flash applications being included into web applications
      • for automatised customization of a content of flash applications based on data in a database (purchase data); to set up visual style based on domain (multi tenant)

 

  • Some specific projects stated at recommendation sheet and at LinkedIn profile
    (e.g. booking system for registration of participants for concrete workshops at more-days events; information portal aggregating various types of data relevant for concrete ski resorts; consumer competition; voting/survey/competition car of the year; portal with videos, games and encyclopedia; website for configuration of best-wishes cards custom-made on-line; common presentation websites of companies; …).
  • Informační portál agregující různá data (informace a znalosti) z různých zdrojů
    a zobrazující relevantní výběr pro konkrétní horská střediska
  • Portál s videi, hrami a encyklopedií – webové prostředí pro provoz flashových aplikací jiného autora, běžící současně na různých doménách pod různými brandy – multitenant
  • Webové aplikace pro konfiguraci přání na míru (pro automatizovanou; i pro zakázkovou)
  • Rezervační systém pro přihlašování účastníků na konkrétní aktivity při několikadenních akcích, s různým programem různých lektorů probíhajícím současně;
    další rezervační systémy
  • Různá administrační prostředí pro různé weby / webové aplikace / systémy
  • Spotřebitelské soutěže
  • Hlasování/anketa/soutěž auto roku – soutěže a zpravodajství
  • Web pro lokální internetovou TV (webový archiv pro on-line vysílání);
    • AJAXové vyhledávání jiného videa bez přerušení přehrávání videa stávajícího
  • Firemní prezentační weby; částečně zpravodajské servery (úpravy); …

 


RiverBit
Database Programmer

 
 
  • Reference ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2023-reference-riverbit-signed.pdf)
 
 

Databases MariaDB/MySQL
– Programming, Optimization, SQL Tuning


  • Processing of stocks and transactions at clients' warehouses
  • Periodical automatic processing of big volume of data in limited time
  • Each database has hundreds of tables.
  • Some tables have cca 150 millions of rows.
  • MariaDB/MySQL queries executed from PHP
  • Full remote B2B cooperation
  • 2022 – 2023

 


Martin Adámek, Náchod, s. r. o.

  • The company was founded in July 2015.
  • Before that, I performed some of the activities I now do through the company under other legal forms (temporary contracts).
 
  • Czech language teacher for Polish speakers

  • Web & database programmer (developer)

    • Technical aspect completely – from technical project of structure to realisation of the code
  • Live narrated travelogue presentations

    • From my journeys not only by bicycle not only for history of technology
  • Translations from Polish into Czech and interpreting between Czech and Polish

    • Technical, business, general topics
  • Tutoring in selected specialised ICT subfields

  • Owner, managing director

    • Operations management; financial planning / budgeting and cash flow
    • Marketing, promotion, and sales
    • Administration, invoicing, double-entry bookkeeping, tax returns, and official reporting
 
 
  • Teacher of Czech language for Polish speakers

    • Since 2011
    • Main activity now
    • All levels
    • Groups and individuals
    • Language schools, company courses, lessons at students' homes or workplaces, online
    • adamek.cz/pl/czeski ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/pl/czeski/)
    • Introductory video-lecture on-line ⧉ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FQrVRucYI&list=PLHLoERbnwX5J-Bmg5SkCjGrti_WFJHWyf&index=1)
  • Programmer (developer) of database web applications and websites

    • For clients
    • Own projects
    • Technical aspect completely
      • from technical project of structure to realisation of the code, full-stack
      • .htaccess (mod_rewrite), relational databases MySQL / MariaDB, PHP, XHTML, HTML5, CSS3, JS, AJAX, RSS
      • (graphics not)
      • accessibility for blind users, for users with low vision, for unusual devices, older devices, mobile devices, responsive, semantic
      • with low hardware and connection requirements
    • Since 2002
    • adamek.cz/en/web-apps/ ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/en/web-apps/)
  • Live narrated travelogue presentations

    • Live narrated travelogue photo slide shows
    • For elementary schools, high schools, theatres, cinemas, health resorts, libraries, municipal cultural centres, museums
    • From my journeys not only by bicycle
      not only for history of technology
    • 2004 – 2019 live travelogue presentations
    • 2004 – 2014 journeys
    • adamek.cz/kolo/prezentace ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/kolo/prezentace/)
    • Bicycle traveller
    • Few independent journeys by bicycle with bags through Europe; 22 countries
      Then also journeys by recumbent bike; by oldtimer microbus; by kick-bike scooter (foot-bike) with semitrailer
      I have visited lot of museums of technology in various European countries.
    • Also cooperation with Czech Radio (public radio) during some trips
    • Cooperation with manufacturers and importers of cycling and outdoor equipment
      (testing, improvement suggestions; promotion)
  • Translations from Polish into Czech
    and two-way interpreting between Czech and Polish

    • Technical,
      business,
      general topics
    • Written translation of texts into Czech language only,
      interpreting of communication in both ways.
      Arranging written translations from Czech into Polish via a subcontractor.
    • 2014 – 2022
  • Private tutoring in selected specialised ICT subfields

    • Algorithm design
      (introduction to programming, basics of programming)
    • Numeral systems,
      binary logic
      (logic functions, Boolean algebra, De Morgan laws, Karnaugh maps)
    • Microsoft Office
      – MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word
    • Relational databases in MySQL,
      making of websites,
    • Tutoring for university students (both part-time and full-time),
      for secondary school students
      and for professionals.
      Consultations.
    • Since 2009; occasionally
    • adamek.cz/ict/doucovani-konzultace ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/ict/doucovani-konzultace/)
  • Owner, managing director

    • Everything from marketing to accounting.
      • Operations management; financial planning / budgeting and cash flow
      • Marketing, promotion, and sales
      • Administration, invoicing, double-entry bookkeeping, tax returns, and official reporting
    • Three-in-one role in a one-person limited company:
      Owner, managing director, and sole employee

 


Education – Completed

 

Course of university pedagogy

  • University of Hradec Králové, Czechia

Wrocław University of Technology, Poland

  • Erasmus PhD study staying for one semester

University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Czechia

  • Master’s degree programme:
    Information Management

Secondary School of Electrical Engineering Pardubice, Czechia

  • Computer and Automation Engineering
  • Practical project:
    Computer programme for home accounting and personal finance
 
 

Course of University Pedagogy

  • University of Hradec Králové,
    Institute for Further Education,
    Czechia
  • Univerzita Hradec Králové,
    Institut dalšího vzdělávání
    (UHK IDV)
     
  • Course for teachers of the University of Hradec Králové
  • Lifelong education programme
  • Course completed; 30 lessons
  • Certificate ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/vs-pedagogika-bezudaju.jpg)
  • 2011-03-11 – 2011-05-13

Wrocław University of Technology,
Faculty of Computer Science and Management,
Poland

  • Politechnika Wrocławska, Wydział Informatyki i Zarządzania (PWr WIZ)
     
  • Erasmus PhD study staying for one semester
  • Achieved 220 % of required ECTS credits (40 of 18) ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/university/pwr-transcript.jpg)
    • Six subjects in Polish language
    • Two subjects in English language
  • Passed the Polish language exam at C1 level ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/pwr-c1-bezudaju.jpg)
    (Politechnika Wrocławska, Studium Języka Polskiego dla Cudzoziemców)
  • 2010-02-16 – 2010-06-30

University of Hradec Králové,
Faculty of Informatics
and Management,
Czechia


Secondary School of Electrical Engineering and College Pardubice,
Czechia

  • Střední průmyslová škola elektrotechnická a Vyšší odborná škola Pardubice
    (SPŠE a VOŠ Pardubice)
     
  • Study programme:
    Secondary school programme:
    Low-current Electrical Engineering
  • Specialization:
    Computer and Automation Engineering
  • Practical project:
    Computer programme for home accounting and personal finance
    • Written in C++;
      for Windows 95 and newer
    • No installation required;
      cca 0.58 MiB (one .exe file)
    • Working also on later Windows (Win XP, Win 7, …);
      working on Windows 64 bit;
      visual defects on Win 10, but basically working
    • Webpage with information and download ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/sw/ucto/)
    • Competition Students` Professional Activities (SPA) ⧉ (https://www.soc.cz/english/):
      • Středoškolská odborná činnost (SOČ)
      • Year: (2001/)2002
      • Category: Economics and Management
      • Result: Top ten in national final in the category in the year
  • Passed theoretical and practical leaving examination
  • 1998 – 2002

Elementary school

  • Since 5th year extended education of math and physics
  • 1989 – 1998

 


Studies Terminated Without Graduation

Although I did not complete these study programmes,
each of them was meaningful for me, each of them brought me valuable knowledge and experience.

 

 

  • Information and Knowledge Management
    (doctoral study programme)
    • CB-radio in Road Traffic as Social Network and Information Technology
      • Peer-reviewed article; in English (international conference)
      • CB radio on traffic channels
      • A general explanation of basic principles
      • Based on practical experience

     
  • Pedagogy for High Schools – Czech Language
    (master's degree programme)
  • Polish Language
    (lifelong education programme)
 
 

Doctoral Study Programme:
Information and Knowledge Management

  • University of Hradec Králové,
    Faculty of Informatics and Management,
    Department of Information Technologies

    (Univerzita Hradec Králové, Fakulta informatiky a managementu, Katedra informačních technologií)
    (UHK FIM KIT)
  • Completed all required subjects except for one, and also some additional optional subjects;
    published academic articles and conference papers;
    left without graduation.
  • 2008 – 2013
  • CB-radio in road traffic as social network and information technology

    • A general explanation of the basic principles how CB radio works on traffic channels
      • Based on hands-on experience with its real-world use in road traffic
      • Intended for IT professionals who do not use the CB radio
    • In English (international conference)
    • Peer-reviewed article
    • Presented at the conference SoNet Workshop 2010; Social Networks: Computing and Mining;
      Mendel University in Brno (Mendelova univerzita v Brně), PEF; 3rd - 5th September 2010
    • Published in the academic journal International Journal on Social Media;
      volume I, 2010; issue 1; Konvoj; ISSN 1804-5251
    • Article ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/clanky/publikace/odborne/2010-09-sonet-cb-radio-road-traffic-adamek.pdf)
    • Presentation ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/clanky/publikace/odborne/2010-09-sonet-cb-radio-road-traffic-adamek.pps)

Master's Degree Programme:
Pedagogy for High Schools:
Informatics + Czech Language and Literature

  • University of Hradec Králové,
    Faculty of Education
    (Univerzita Hradec Králové, Pedagogická fakulta)
    (UHK PdF)
  • Completed most of linguistic subjects and some others;
    interrupted and left without graduation.
  • Side-track study programme taken during the transition from Master's to Doctoral studies in Informatics
  • List of completed subjects (full transcript from the faculty) can be found below, in the section Languages > Czech.
  • 2007 – 2009

Lifelong Education Programme:
Polish Language in Public Administration

  • University of Hradec Králové,
    Faculty of Education
    (Univerzita Hradec Králové, Pedagogická fakulta)
    (UHK PdF)
  • Not completed, 3 out of 4 semesters passed
  • Side-track two-year study programme, 1 day per week
    taken alongside main Master's studies in Informatics
  • List of completed subjects (confirmation issued by the faculty) can be found below, in the section Languages > Polish.
  • 2003 – 2004

 


Languages

  1. Czech
    • Native + above-average knowledge
    • Professional language services
  2. Polish
  3. Slovak
    • Passively  
      (I understand Slovak; Slovaks generally understand Czech)
  4. English
    • B2  
      (certificate Cambridge FCE)
    • Reading C1  
      (subresult of the exam Cambridge FCE)
    • Professional work
  5. Russian
    • B2  
      (certificate Saint Petersburg State University)
    • Basics
  6. German
    • A1  
      (certificate Goethe Institut)
    • Very poor basics
  7. (Poor shreds of another European languages)

I am interested in working on my knowledge of the above languages.
Ich möchte meine Kenntnisse in den oben genannten Sprachen verbessern.
 

Links to the certificates and more details below, after expanding.


Scale of language knowledge levels

by European Framework of Reference (CEFR, CEF, CEFRL) ⧉ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages):

A1 < A2   <   B1 < B2   <   C1 < C2

Where A1 is the worst (lowest) level of the knowledge;
and C2 is the best (highest) level of the knowledge.
 

My own(!) unofficial(!) definition of these levels:

  • I consider levels A as suitable for tourism and travelling,
    possibly for mid-term staying or short-term living,
    and also for unskilled and low-skilled work.
  • I consider levels B as suitable for long-term staying and long-term living
    and also for highly skilled work.
  • I consider levels C as suitable for providing of professional language services related to that language
    and possibly also for work with very high responsibility with risk of very serious damage,
    e. g. highly skilled work related to a health and a life.

My language levels
  A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2
CS  
Czech
Native speaker, teacher
 
PL   Polish C1
certificate
Polish C2 4 modules of 5:
 Reading,  Listening,  Grammar,  Speaking.
SK     I understand Slovak; majority of Slovaks understand Czech.  
EN     English B2 certificate English C1 in Reading  
RU     Russian B2 certificate  
DE German A1 certificate  
 
 
 
  1. Czech language
    🇨🇿

    • Native speaker – mother tongue
      plus above-average knowledge
       
    • Study of Czech language teaching for Czech secondary schools:

      (study programme „Pedagogy for high schools”)
       
      I studied Czech at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hradec Králové
      as a side activity at the turn of my Master's and Doctoral studies in computer science, my main field of study at the neighbouring faculty.
       
      During the two years I completed my own selection of subjects from about three years of study,
      so I only completed some of the subjects;
      but those subjects, that I completed and which were ended with an exam, I finished with the best grades (excellent).
       
      In this way I concentrated effectively on the exact linguistic subjects
      (which are about knowing what the author wants to say),
      from which I learned what there was to learn,
      and, conversely, I neglected the artistic literary subjects
      (which are about not knowing what the author wants to say).
       
      List of completed courses ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/university/pdf-celkove-vysvedceni.pdf) from the uncompleted study of secondary school pedagogy – Czech language for Czech secondary schools
       
       
    • Professional language services
      • I teach Czech language for Polish speakers.
        Teaching offer ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/vyuka/)
      • I translate from Polish into Czech language sometimes
        (technical, business and general texts).
      • References ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/) – webpage with various references

       
    • Articles about Czech language
      (for Polish speakers)
    • Video lecture: Introduction to Czech language for Poles
      (in Polish language)
       
    • I helped with a translation of language jokes from English into Czech language for book series „Černá skříňka – letecké vtipy a citáty” („Black Box – Aviation Jokes and Quotes”).
      • Reference ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2018-cerna-skrinka.jpg)
    • I can find and correct the most of language errors in a Czech text.
    • I use the Czech language for publishing
      (two popular science books ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/knihy/);
      plenty of articles, mostly about technology or languages;
      formerly also travelogue presentations and cooperation with Czech Radio).  
       
       
    • TV competition „Pálí vám to?” („Are You Smart?”)
    • TV competition „Česká tajenka” („Czech Riddle”)
  2. Polish language
    🇵🇱

  3. Slovak language – passively
    🇸🇰

    • I can understand Slovak,
      both written and spoken.
    • Most Slovaks understand Czech,
      so I can communicate with Slovaks.
  4. English language
    🇬🇧

     

    • Older certificates – 20 years sooner; at lower level:
    • Professional work
      (I can communicate about our work with clients, colleagues, suppliers, etc. in English.)
    • Reading; writing;
      communication and speaking
       
    • I was teaching a subject „Technologies for Web Publishing”
      for foreign students in English
      at Faculty of Informatics and Management
      at the University of Hradec Králové
      in 2008 – 2013
      (references ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/uhk-fim-kit-en.jpg))
  5. Russian language – basics
    🇷🇺

    • Certificate B2 ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/ru-b2-certificate-email.pdf)
      • Reference (details) ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/ru-b2-reference.pdf) – points and percentage per parts of the exam
      • Saint Petersburg State University
        Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет
      • Exam in Prague, Czechia;
        conversation/speaking exam via on-line video-call to Saint Petersburg, Russia;
        written parts of exam evaluated in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
      • B2 level
        by European Framework of Reference (CEFR, CEF, CEFRL) ⧉ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages),
        the 3rd highest level of the 6 existing
  6. German – very poor basics
    🇩🇪

    • Certificate A1 ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/de-a1.pdf)
      • Goethe Institut, Prague, Czechia
      • A1 level
        by European Framework of Reference (CEFR, CEF, CEFRL) ⧉ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages),
        the lowest level of the 6 existing
      • Four modules (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking),
        with a score of 79.7% to 99.6% in each module.
      • Overall 85% (60% required).
        Overall assessment „good”:
        According to the table, this can be seen as a nice solid B.
      • 2024-05

       
    • Basic words and very basic grammar of German
    • I can express very basic pieces of information and very basic questions.
  7. Poor shreds of another European languages
    🇪🇸

    • Fragments of another European languages

I am interested in working on my knowledge of the above languages.

Ich möchte meine Kenntnisse in den oben genannten Sprachen verbessern.
 

 


Driving Licence

 
  • All categories (among others B, C+E, D+E, …)
  • Certificate of Professional Competence (Code 95)
  • Psychotests
  • Driver memory card for the digital tachograph
 
 
  • All international categories
  • All Czech categories
    • All international categories
      plus «T» – agricultular / forest tractor + (semi)trailer(s)
  • A, B, B+E, C, C+E, D, D+E, T
  • Certificate of Professional Competence / Code 95 / Driver Qualification Card
    • Both categories: C(+E), D(+E)
    • In the form of code 95 on the driving licence
  • Psychotests – Traffic-psychological examination – Psychological fitness to drive motor vehicles
    • Obligatory in Czech Republic for driving of vehicles/combinations with gross mass over 7,5 t or vehicles over 1+8 seats
  • Driver memory card for the digital tachograph
  • I can show my driving record
    • List of my driving offences
    • Dates of obtaining each category of licence

Experience

  • B+E occasional experience over 20 years
    • Various vans and various single axle or tandem axle trailers as required and available.
    • I enjoy driving a tandem trailer,
      I have also checked it out in C+E driving school:
  • C & D almost without experience
    • I drove in driving school
      • a 13m Iveco Crossway bus
      • and an unit of Iveco Eurocargo with a tandem trailer
        having length of the unit cca 18 m.
      • All on narrow 2nd and 3rd class roads around the town of Broumov ⧉ (https://en.mapy.cz/s/kuhupomara), between villages in the border area.
    • Short experience with semitrailer units
      • Substitute driver in a time of regular drivers' holiday.
        During my holiday from my main job.
      • Fulfilling a childhood dream.
        Something I wanted to do when I was a child.
        The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
        A mental reset between teaching.
      • Renault T tractor
        + boxbody semitrailer with roll-up door,
        regular night line, intrastate,
        cca one week
      • DAF XG+ 480 FT tractor
        + canvas semitrailer,
        international transport,
        cca one week
      • Fuel consumption significantly lower
        than regular drivers' consumptions with the same trucks.

I fulfilled my need for fast driving when I was young; then I got a prudence.
I endeavor to drive safely and economically, and with a regard for the car;
maintaining safe and economical* following distance and trying to think ahead.

(* bigger, for a smoother drive and smaller speed changes)

 


Published Books

 
  • HEMS:
    How does helicopter emergency medical service work
  • Spam:
    How not to call in, not to receive and not to distribute unsolicited e-mail
  • (Titles translated into English here;
    the books were written and published in Czech language.)
  • adamek.cz/en/books ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/en/books/)
 
 
  • Helicopter EMS (HEMS)

    • Title translated into English:
      How does helicopter emergency medical service work
    • Title:
      Jak funguje letecká záchranka:
      Zákulisí, záchranáři, zásahy
    • ISBN 978-80-251-2589-2
    • Publisher: Computer Press, a.s.
    • Published in 2010
    • The HEMS is described at large by indepth reportage from point of view of lot of branches in this book.
      I have visited a heliport of the HEMS more times, the book was arising by longterm cooperation with expert advisers, I have eked out the book also with materials from another Czech and foreign authors (photos, graph, movies).
  • Spam

    • Title translated into English:
      Spam: How not to call in, not to receive and not to distribute unsolicited e-mail
    • Title:
      Spam:
      Jak nepřivolávat, nepřijímat a nerozesílat nevyžádanou poštu
    • ISBN 978-80-247-2638-0
    • Publisher: Grada Publishing, a.s.
    • Published in 2008
    • The book is intended for multiple groups of readers – from the general public, businesses to webmasters, and other ICT professionals. It provides a comprehensive overview of spam and some related topics. It offers insights not only from the perspective of information and communication technologies, but also from a marketing and psychological angle, with occasional ethical and moral reflections.
  • Brief information about both of the books:
    adamek.cz/en/books ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/en/books/)

 


Technical Solutions – Utility Models

 

Technical solutions registered as utility models with the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic:

  • Circuit arrangement combining flashing light indicator function and that of car marker light in a single bulb
  • Electrical connection of ventilator and thermoregulator at solid fuel boiler (Ergonomics of ignition)
  • Fixation of headlight on (cycling) helmet
 
 

Technical solutions
and their registrations with the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic
(„Úřad průmyslového vlastnictví”, upv.gov.cz)
as utility models
(independently arranged, without a patent attorney).

(Sometimes informally called „small patents”.)

  • Circuit arrangement combining flashing light indicator function and that of car marker light in a single bulb

    • Document number: 29720
    • Document on the Industrial Property Office website ⧉ (https://isdv.upv.cz/doc/FullFiles/UtilityModels/FullDocuments/FDUM0029/uv029720.pdf)
    • Czech name: „Zapojení sdružující funkci blinkru a obrysového světla do jedné žárovky”
    • Registered in 2016
  • Electrical connection of ventilator and thermoregulator at solid fuel boiler (Ergonomics of ignition)

    • Technical solution for improvement of usability (comfort, ergonomics, UX) of solid fuel boiler and for improvement of its resistance to user's mistake.
    • Full name of registered solution:
      „Connection of fan of solid fuel boiler through timing relay, which is parallel to a thermoregulator”
    • Document number: 25671
    • Document on the Industrial Property Office website ⧉ (https://isdv.upv.cz/doc/FullFiles/UtilityModels/FullDocuments/FDUM0025/uv025671.pdf)
    • Information on my website ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/zlepsovaky/kotel-termostat-ventilator/)
    • Czech name: „Zapojení ventilátoru kotle na tuhá paliva přes časové relé paralelně k termostatu”
    • Registered in 2013
  • Fixation of headlight on (cycling) helmet

Searching in a database of the Industrial Property Office ⧉ (https://isdv.upv.gov.cz/webapp/resdb.home)
 

 


Volunteering:
Summer bicycle touring camp for children; and a youth cycling club
Junior group assistant, Group leader, Camp director;
Club leader

 
 
 

2000 – 2009
Summer bicycle touring camps for children and youth;
and a youth cycling club

  • Junior group assistant, group leader, camp director; club leader
  • For children and teens (ages 9–17)
  • Participant (camp child) since 1995
  • Assistant group leader / group leader since 2000
  • Camp director in 2007, 2008, 2009
    • planning and promotion, organisation, technical arrangements;
    • camp leadership, programme preparation and activity planning;
    • documentation and records;
    • full financial management – from budgeting to final accounting;
    • 9 days of camp in a summer = everything needed from autumn to autumn
  • In some school years: weekly leader of a cycle touring club for children and youth

Host organisations:

  • Déčko Náchod / Duha Bartoňka

 


Volunteering:
International Children's Pedal Cars Meeting
Co-founder;
One of the main organisers
(PR, international communication)

 
 
 

Co-founder

  • Main author of programme and venue selector; involved also in many other aspects

One of the main organisers for first two years

  • Focus on PR and communication with journalists
  • Focus on communication with international visitors
  • Also involved in other activities
  • Event years 2012, 2013

In the following years – Ongoing involvement

  • Continued to support international visitors in the following years
    (e.g. by organising local trips)
  • Helped on the day of the event as needed,
    but no longer involved in year-round preparations
  • Communication in Polish and English, and a bit of Russian,
    on site or during trips when needed

International Children’s Pedal Cars Meeting

  • since June 2012
  • 1 day event
  • Náchod, Czechia
  • The largest children’s traffic playground in the country
    (this is not our achievement, this place already existed during my childhood;
    we started using it for our meeting one day a year because it is a perfect place for such an event)
     
  • vintage children pedal cars Moskvitch
    (formerly widespread in Czechoslovakia)
  • all other children pedal vehicles
    (another cars, agro-tractors, formulas, ... ;
    vintage or recent)
  • with or without child driver
    (programme for children-drivers; exhibition of vehicles for owners)
     
  • side programme:
    small meeting of real big oldtimer cars

Participants with real big Moskvitch / Izh oldtimer cars traditionally come to most editions of the event from Lithuania, driving all the way diagonally across Poland under their own power. In some years, participants with real big Moskvitch / Izh cars also arrived from Latvia or Estonia.
These guests are usually the reason for the international trips and the foreign-language communication (Polish, English, and a bit of Russian), though their participation varies year to year.

 


Volunteering: Miscellaneous

  • Van / microbus driver
    for children summer camps or similar sport/touristic events
  • Unpaid voluntary blood donor
  • Alpine Skiing World Cup:
    Walking organizing service
 
 
 

Van / microbus driver
for children summer camps or similar sport/touristic events

  • Driving of van or microbus plus trailer.
    Transporting people, baggage, boats, equipment, ...
  • Sometimes, occasionally.
  • Children's summer camps,
    summer river trips (canoes, rafts),
    winter trips to the mountains,
    and similar activities.
  • Non-commercial events for children, youth or even adults.
    What my friends and their non-profit leisure-time youth organisations needed.
  • Sometimes volunteer help for another persons without being directly involved in the event,
    sometimes I enjoyed the event too, as one of participants.
  • Ca 2003 – 2009.
    The years mentioned are very approximate, for guidance only.
    It is occasional activity.

 

Unpaid voluntary blood donor

  • Silver Medal of Prof. Janský
    • awarded for twenty unpaid blood and plasma donations
  • 2005 – 2015

 

Ladies Alpine Skiing World Cup:
Race weekend in Špindlerův Mlýn, Krkonoše, Czechia
Walking organizing service

  • Volunteer – walking organizing service
    (on-site steward)
  • Direct contact with (care of) Czech and foreign
    visitors, journalists, coaches and competitors
    • e.g. in finish zone
    • front-line position, e.g. restricted access checkpoint
    • in-field communication in English, Czech, Polish and basics of Russian
    • on-site removal of language barriers, actively resolving a critical misunderstanding and ensuring smooth interaction
  • Help with preparation, organization and packing of races
    • 5 days
    • 2008
  • Organizing organization:
    • Skiklub Špindl produkce
  • Under the patronage of:
    • FIS
      (Fédération Internationale de Ski;
      The International Ski and Snowboard Federation)

 


Hobbies and interests

  • Active Hobbies

    • Walking, hiking
    • PMR DX
      • Using PMR radios to establish radio connections over relatively long distances;
        by transmitting from locations with highly favourable conditions:
        With radios which in normal operation typically reach only very low single-digit kilometre ranges,
        we achieve contacts over tens or even very low hundreds of kilometres.
      • Combining long-distance walkie-talkie operation (PMR DX) with recreational trips.
    • Amateur Radio
      • Harec certificate of radio operator competence for the amateur radio service (CEPT T/R 61-02)
        • Highest-level amateur radio qualification; unrestricted
      • Amateur radio licence
    • Kick scooter
      (footbike; foot-powered scooter)
  • Passive Interests

    • Road transport (mainly freight),
      utility vehicles (mainly light ones – vans, microbuses, etc.),
      off-road vehicles (partial interest),
      oldtimers, youngtimers, …
    • History of technology
    • Communication technologies (radio communication, formerly also phones),
      electronics, ICT,
      web technologies, web accessibility for disadvantaged users,
      ergonomics, …
    • Languages
 
  • Former hobbies:
 
 
  • Former active hobbies; currently (temporarily?) inactive

    • Cycling, bicycle touring, bicycle travelling
    • Cynology
    • Water tourism (rivers; canoeing/rafting)
    • Travelling, trips
    • Photography
    • Reading: Dystopias; non-fiction / popular science
    • Škoda 1203 (oldtimer microbus)