CV – Professional Curriculum Vitae Ing. Martin Adámek

Proč chci za volant:

• 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

• 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; …

• 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)

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

• Reference for first 2,5 years (employment contract) – Czech ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2014-zdenek-balcar-felax.pdf)
• Reference for 11 years of cooperation (as at 2023-03) – English ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2023-zdenek-balcar-felax.pdf)

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; …).
• Information portal aggregating various data (information and knowledge) from various sources,
  displaying a relevant selection for specific mountain resorts
• Portal with videos, games and an encyclopedia – a web environment for running Flash applications by another author, operating simultaneously on different domains under different brands – multitenant
• Web applications for configuration of tailored best-wishes cards
  (one for fully automated – the card is completed by our system based on user's input;
  one for manual – order realized by a human)
• Booking system for registering participants for specific activities during multi-day events, with various programmes by different instructors running simultaneously;
  other booking systems
• Various administration interfaces for various websites / web applications / systems
• Consumer competitions
• Voting/poll/competition car of the year – competitions and the news
• Website for a local internet TV station (web archive for on-line broadcasting);
  • AJAX search for a different video without interrupting the playback of the current video
• Company presentation websites; partially news portals (modifications); …

Databases MariaDB/MySQL
– Programming, Optimization, SQL Tuning

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

• 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

• 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

• References from clients ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/en/references/)

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

• Univerzita Hradec Králové, Fakulta informatiky a managementu (UHK FIM)
   
• Information Management
• Master's study programme (10 semesters)
  • Equivalent of bachelor programme was integrated in this master's programme:
    • 3 + 2 = 5 years
  • Programme requirements:
    • Compulsory subjects
    • 300 or more ECTS
    • Thesis
    • Final state examination
• Obtained master's degree academic title: Ing.
  • Engineer
  • The official equivalent of degree „mgr inż.” in Poland:
    • International agreement: Ing. (CZ) = mgr inż. (PL); original source: parliament ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/university/parlament-M20080709.pdf)
    • International agreement: Ing. (CZ) = mgr inż. (PL); original source: nauka.gov.pl ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/university/tituly-nauka.pdf)
  • The same level as degree „Dipl.-Ing.” or „Dipl. Ing.” in Germany or Austria:
    • de.Wikipedia: Ingenieur: Tschechien: ⧉ (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenieur#Tschechien_und_Slowakei)
      „Der tschechische und slowakische akademische Grad Ing. entspricht daher nicht nur dem deutschen Diplom-Ingenieur, sondern je nach Studienrichtung auch anderen Diplomgraden deutscher Universitäten (…)” (cited 2023-12-16)
  • The same level as degree „MSE” „Master of Science in Engineering”:
    • en.Wikipedia: Engineer's degree: Czechia ⧉ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_degree#Czech_Republic,_Poland_and_Slovakia)
      „(…) the degree of Ing. is given for complete university studies in technical (like engineering), economic or agricultural fields. In one of these cases it can be equivalent to a Master of Science in Engineering.” (cited 2023-12-16)
• Diploma thesis: Spam, unsolicited commercial e-mail
  • Catalogue of University Qualification Theses of the Archive of the UHK (2006 – 2014) ⧉ (http://evskp.uhk.cz/default.aspx)
  • After that I published popular science book ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/knihy/spam/) at this topic (publisher: Grada, 2008).
• Diploma – Ing. (master's degree) – Information Management – in Czech ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/university/uhk-fim-diplom.jpg)
  • Diploma supplement: among others, a diagram of the Czech education system – in English + Czech (pdf 11 MiB) ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/university/uhk-fim-diploma-supplement.pdf)
• 2002 – 2008

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

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

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)
     • Blog about Czech language for Polish speakers ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/pl/czeski/blog/)
     • FB: „Martin Adámek - Język czeski dla Polaków” ⧉ (https://www.facebook.com/jezyk.czeski.dla.polakow) (Czech Language for Poles)
     • There is approximately the same content at the blog as well as at the FB fan page.
   • Video lecture: Introduction to Czech language for Poles
     (in Polish language)
     • adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/vyslovnost
       (webpage with download) ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/vyslovnost/)
     • YouTube ⧉ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FQrVRucYI)
     • 2015
     
      
   • 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?”)
     • Guessing of Czech words
     • 2005-06-13 (broadcast 2005-07)
     • Pálí vám to? (YouTube, start at time 217 s = 3:37) ⧉ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irKx8BoAqzE&t=217)
     • Pálí vám to? (mp4, 114 MiB) ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/media/tv/pali-vam-to.mp4)
   • TV competition „Česká tajenka” („Czech Riddle”)
     • Guessing of sentences, definitions or quotes in Czech
     • 2015-11-07 (broadcast 2015-11-30)
     • Česká tajenka (YouTube, start at time 260 s = 4:20) ⧉ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFX4D6Jtrkw&t=260)
     • Česká tajenka (mp4, 130 MiB) ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/media/tv/2015-11-30-ceska-tajenka.mp4)

2. Polish language
   🇵🇱

   • Four of the five modules of the C2 state exam ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/pl-c2-attempt.pdf)
     • Certified translation of the confirmation into English ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/pl-c2-attempt-en-merged.pdf)
     • University of Wroclaw, Poland,
       Faculty of Philology,
       Institute of Polish Philology,
       School of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners
     • Uniwersytet Wrocławski,
       Wydział Filologiczny,
       Instytut filologii polskiej,
       Szkoła Języka Polskiego i Kultury dla Cudzoziemców
     • I attempted the state language exam at C2 level
       by European Framework of Reference (CEFR, CEF, CEFRL) ⧉ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages),
       the very highest level of the 6 existing.
     • I failed this exam because I failed the writing module.
     • I achieved the required minimum (60 % in each module) in the following modules:
       • Comprehension of written texts: 79 %
       • Grammatical accuracy: 79 %
       • Speaking: 77 %
       • Listening comprehension: 72 %
       • This means that I scored 131 %, 131 %, 128 % and 120 % of the required points in each of these four modules.
     • This C2 state language exam in Polish is difficult even for native Poles studying Polish language at Master's level as their main field of study.
       It is supposedly at about the level of a PhD exam in Polish.
       So I am very proud of my partial success (more than sufficient score in 4 modules out of 5).
     • 2023-11
     
      
   • Certificate C1 ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/pl-c1.pdf)
     • Certified translation of the certificate into English ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/pl-c1-en.pdf)
     • Wrocław University of Technology, Poland,
       Polish Language Study for Foreigners
     • Politechnika Wrocławska,
       Studium Języka Polskiego dla Cudzoziemców
     • C1 level
       by European Framework of Reference (CEFR, CEF, CEFRL) ⧉ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages),
       the 2^nd highest level of the 6 existing
     • 2010-06
     
      
   • Lifelong study programme:
     Polish language in public administration
     • Completed three semesters out of four
     • University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Education, Czechia
     • Univerzita Hradec Králové, Pedagogická fakulta
     • 1^st semester ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/uhk-pl1.pdf)
     • 2^nd semester ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/uhk-pl2.pdf)
     • 3^rd semester ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/uhk-pl3.pdf)
     • 2003 – 2004
     
      
   • Professional work actively
     (I can communicate about our work with clients, colleagues, suppliers, etc. in Polish.)
   • Professional language services passively
     (written translation from Polish;
     not into Polish)
   • Reading; listening;
     communication and speaking fluently;
     writing with mistakes, but understandable
      
   • Teaching in Polish language
     (Czech language and life and institutions for Polish speakers)
   • Video lecture: Introduction to Czech for Poles – in Polish
     • adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/vyslovnost
       (webpage with download) ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/vyslovnost/)
     • YouTube ⧉ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0FQrVRucYI)
     • 2015
     
      
   • Publishing of articles in Polish
     • Blog about Czech language for Polish speakers ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/pl/czeski/blog/)
     • FB: „Martin Adámek - Język czeski dla Polaków” ⧉ (https://www.facebook.com/jezyk.czeski.dla.polakow) (Czech Language for Poles)
     • There is approximately the same content at the blog as well as at the FB fan page.
     
      
   • Czech-Polish dictionaries and other study materials that I created
     adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/materialy ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/materialy/)
      
     • Czech-Polish dictionary of tricky words
       – CS-PL false friends vocabulary;
       the same or similar words with another or even opposite meaning ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/jazyky/polsky-slovnik/)
     • CS-PL dictionary 2:1
       – Different translations of Czech vs. Polish words,
       more meanings of one word in one language – more words in another language ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/jazyky/polska-slova-sirsi-uzsi-vyznam/)
     • Transport and logistics Czech-Polish dictionary ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/materialy/logisticky-slovnik/)
     • Construction and technical Czech-Polish dictionary ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cestina-polsky/materialy/stavebni-slovnik/)
     • …
     
      
   • Translations of texts from Polish to Czech
     (technical, business, general)
     
     • Reference – translation from Polish to Czech ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2018-referencje-kudowa-optyk.jpg)
     
      
   • Interpretation of communication in both directions (Czech ↔ Polish)
      
     • Interpretation of on-line meeting, Czech – Polish
       – technical issues of taking aerial photographs for orthophotomaps
       – reference in English ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2021-03-reference-mggp-aero-en.jpg)
     • Interpretation of on-line meeting, Czech – Polish
       – technical issues of taking aerial photographs for orthophotomaps
       – reference in Polish ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2021-03-reference-mggp-aero-pl.jpg)
     • Reference – Two-way interpreting Polish and Czech by phone and e-mail
       – purchase of a used motorcycle by a Polish buyer in the Czech Republic ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2019-reference-trikolka.jpg)
     • Reference – Bidirectional interpreting between Polish and Czech
       in negotiations with Czech authorities and with a Czech lawyer,
       assistance with negotiations and making arrangements with the authorities ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2018-reference-ameventino.jpg)
     • Reference – Two-way interpreting between Polish and Czech
       (between two business partners) ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/reference/2018-reference-rubena.jpg)
     
      

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
   🇬🇧

   • Certificate B2, Cambridge FCE
     • 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
     • Reading at level C1
       the 2^nd highest level of the 6 existing
       (as a subresult of this exam)
     • Exam via Evropské vzdělávací centrum, Hradec Králové
     • Certificate FCE B2 – scan – pdf – 2 pages ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/en-b2-fce-certificate-scan-merged.pdf)
     • Statement of Results FCE B2 – downloaded – pdf – 1 page – reading C1 ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/en-b2-fce-statement-of-result-downloaded-reading-c1.pdf)
     • Statement of Results FCE B2 – confirmation – pdf – 1 page – reading C1 ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/en-b2-fce-statement-of-result-downloaded-reading-c1-confirmation.pdf)
     • 2025-01

    

   • Older certificates – 20 years sooner; at lower level:
     • Certificate Pitman – Intermediate ESOL ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/pitman.jpg)
       • Probably level B2 or B1, according to later information
         (No CEFR level was assigned to this certificate at the moment it was issued)
       • Exam via University of Hradec Králové
       • 2005-04
     • Certificate Elsa – Intermediate High ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/elsa1.jpg)
       • 2nd sheet of certificate ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/cv/elsa2.jpg)
       • Level B1
       • Exam via University of Hradec Králové
       • 2005-10
        
   • 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 3^rd 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.
 

• 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)

• 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/)
   
• 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)

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

  • Document number: 18974
  • Document on the Industrial Property Office website ⧉ (https://isdv.upv.cz/doc/FullFiles/UtilityModels/FullDocuments/FDUM0018/uv018974.pdf)
  • Information on my website ⧉ (https://www.adamek.cz/zlepsovaky/celovka/)
  • Czech name: „Připevnění čelové svítilny na přilbu, zejména cyklistickou”
  • Registered in 2008

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

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

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.

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)

• 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)