Curriculum Vitae

Pavel M. Horák

  • Personal Details

  • Name: Pavel Horák

  • Title: B.A.

  • Address: Srbsko 16, Karlštejn 267 18

  • Telephone: +420 602 487 201

  • E-mail: pavel.m.horak(at)gmail.com

  • Homepage: http://pavel-m-horak.wz.cz


  • Date of Birth: 11th March 1981

  • Gender: male

  • Marital status: single


  • Nationality: Czech

  • Citizenship: Czech Republic


  • Education

    • since 10/2007 – Master’s programme of study New Media Studies, diploma work on "Opportunities of Semantic Web Technology Application in Public Sector", Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University in Prague

    • 2006 – Certified Programme "Information Management" - Comprehensive Exam, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague

    • 2000-2006 – Bachelor’s programme of study Liberal Arts and Humanities, bachelor work "Homo Creator – Man as a Creator of New Worlds. Changing Conception of Human in the Works of the Renaissance Philosophers, Nicholas Cusa and Francis Bacon", Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague

    • 1999-2000 – Language Institute Channel Crossings, Certificate in English – Comprehensive Exam level CEFR B2, Prague-Radotín

    • 1991-1999 – Joachym Barrand’s Gramar School, Beroun


  • Skills and Capabilities

    • Languages: English – upper intermediate

    • German – elementary


    • Driving licence: B


    • qualified overview in philosophy, religions, history, art, psychology, sociology and economics (Final state examination, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague)


    • IT skills:

      • well acquainted with new web technologies and webdesign trends

      • actual overview of HW and SW for PC

      • familiar with MS Windows 98, 2000 a XP – installation and administration

      • user experience with MS Windows Vista and Linux Ubuntu

      • office applications: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), OpenOffice.org, Google Apps

      • internet: IE7, Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird, Miranda IM, Skype

      • graphic editors:

        • bitmap - Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, IrfanView

        • vector - Flash MX, Adobe Illustrator (basic)

        • 3D - Cinema 4D(basic), Blender(basic)

        • DTP - Adobe InDesign, Scribus(basic), TeX(basic)

        • HTML - PSPad, TopStyle, Dreamweaver

      • web: (X)HTML, CSS, SEO, JavaScript(basic), PHP(basic), Ruby(basic)

      • databases: SQL, MySQL


  • Working experience

    • Webdesign:

      • Since 2005 interested in interactive and web design, realized several piece-works, mostly static web-presentation coded in fully valid (X)HTML 1.0 and CSS2 with customized PHP, Javascript and MySQL elements.

      • masstallovo.org – My personal web pages with MySQL database of academic articles and student works

      • masstall.bloguje.cz – My weblog for New Media Studies

      • ditam.org – Personal web pages of Dita M.Org, with presentation of her visual art, graphics, comics and photography from over the whole world

      • chrzin.cz – Official web pages of village Chržín

      • stanislav-komarek.cz – Homepage of Stanislav Komárek - biologist, philosopher and historian of science, essayist and novelist, with his biography a bibliography.

      • obrazkovy-denik.wz.cz – Web pages of artistic project of seven talented creative artists, who recorded whole year 2007 in their one-day pictures.

      • starafara.com – Web pages of Sjörs Lemberk, Dutch writer and tourist guide, living in Czech Republic. This web pages are dedicated to his new home and accommodation facilities in reconstructed old pastorate from 16th century in a picturesque village Chržín. (in development, functional preview available here)

      • Gatherings in biosemiotics 9 – official website of Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2009 in Prague.

      • Google Services - an interesting overview and index of Google Services.



    • IT services:

      • since 06/2008 – Change & Configuration Analyst - registration, organization and controling of software & hardware changes in interface of international company for global logistics and delivering

      • Change & Configuration Management,
        DHL Information Services (Europe) s. r. o.,
        V Parku 2308/10, 148 00 Praha 4 - Chodov, Czech republic





    • Financial counseling:

      • 06/2007 - 04/2008 – Private Financial, Insurance and Investment Adviser,

      • OVB Allfinanz, a.s., Viktora Huga 4, Prague 5



    • Project management:

      • 02/2007 – 04/2007 – Anthropological field research of demographic and ethnographic structure of population of houses in property of RPG Real Estate Co. with focus on minor and less adaptable groups and a project study proposed for a solution of the housing problems.

      • RPG Byty, s.r.o., Gregorova 3/2582, Ostrava 701 97



    • Administration:

      • 04/2005 - 07/2005 – Night Reception Clerk, booking and reception,

      • Czech Tennis Federation, Štvanice 38, Prague 7



    • Interests and Specialization

      • Graphics, Design, Webdesign, New Media Art

      • Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive Interface

      • Semantic Web, Knowledgebase, Public Sector Information

      • Hypertext, Semiotics, Philosophy of Science and Technology


    • Free time

      • Music & clubbing (drum’n’base, jazz)

      • Cinema Art

      • Literature (non-fiction, fiction, science fiction)

      • Sport (bicycling, swimming, outdoor treking)

      • Travelling : France (Paris, Bretagne – 2005, 2007), Poland (Krakow – 2006), Ukraine (Krym – 2007), Germany (Berlin – 2008)