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Peter Sykora

Peter Sykora

GIS project manager at the local government of Upper Austria
e-mail: peter_sykora@gmx.at
webpages:
http://www.carto.net/ps/ - My home
http://canyon.carto.net/ - Canyoning in Austria
http://www.doris.at/ - at work

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal data

Marital Status: married with Elisabeth Sykora, father of Lea, Viola and Nino
Citizenship: Austria
Birthday: 09.03.1975
Place of birth: Linz

Education

Primary School: Linz-Auhof
Secondary School: BundesRealGymnasium Auhof, Linz
University: Geography/Cartography at Vienna University, 1993 - 2000

Languages

German: native language
English: both, written and oral
French: 5 years at school
Italian: 3 years at school, only basic knowledge

Jobs

1991Newsboy for the OÖ. Nachrichten, July-August
1992Shiftworker at the Chemie Linz Ges.m.b.H, August-September
1993Shiftworker at the Chemie Linz Ges.m.b.H, July-August
1994Shiftworker at the Chemie Linz Ges.m.b.H, July-September
1996Student Assistant, Vienna University, Course "Proseminar Grundlagen und Einsatz der digitalen Bildverarbeitung in der Geographie", October-February
Data processing of the "Mehrzweckkarte Wien 1:2000" for MD-ADV
1997Student Assistant, Vienna University, Course "Proseminar Einführung in die angewandte Geoinformationsverarbeitung", March-June
Student Assistant, Vienna University, Course "Proseminar Kartographie und Geoinformationsverarbeitung", October-February
Data processing of the "Mehrzweckkarte Wien 1:2000" for MD-ADV
1998Student Assistant, Vienna University, Course "Proseminar zur Vorbereitung der Auslandsfachexkursion nach Kanada und USA", March-June
Student Assistant, Vienna University, Courses "Proseminar Kartenkunde, topographische Karten", October-February
Data processing of the "Mehrzweckkarte Wien 1:2000" for MD-ADV
1999Student Assistant, Vienna University, Course "Fachexkursion Kartographie - Inland (kartogr. Hochgebirgsexkursion)", March-June
Student Assistant, Vienna University, Course "Proseminar Kartographie und Geoinformationsverarbeitung", October-February
2000Civil service at the öVBAuWK (österreichischer Verein für bürospezifische Anlehre und Weiterbildung von Körperbehinderten), January 2000 - January 2001
2001End of civil service 31.January
2001Project assistent for STATLAS and lector at the IKA (ETH-Zürich)
2006GIS project manager at the local government of Upper Austria - DORIS

Research Topics, interests

Mountain Cartography, Topographic Maps, Relief representation,
GIS, GPS
WWW - Mapvisualization, SVG
Cartographic software development
all kinds of OpenGIS software

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