BIO

Digital architect and producer, passioned photographer, UN trained manager and travel-addicted — Pavel draws on hands-on technical and management skills, an education in medicine, a can-do attitude and experience leading development, digital and photography projects since 1999.

PROFESSIONAL ROLES

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

Track record of increasing responsibility in analysis, development, monitoring/ evaluation and full life-cycle project management in the development sector – from consultancy and project management positions to Program Officer/Analyst position at the UNDP Bulgaria.

March 2006 – December 2009: Program Analyst at the UNDP Bulgaria

From March 2006 till June 2008 – responsible for the ICT for Development portfolio;

From June 2008 till December 2009 – additionally responsible for the Energy Efficiency/Environment portfolio.

Both portfolios include 9 projects, covering the following sub-areas:

ICT for Development: e-Governance and Access to information; Networking and networking applications; Infrastructure and connectivity.

Energy Efficiency/Environment: Building the local capacity for promoting energy efficiency measures; Biodiversity; The three Rio Conventions and their implementation into the regional planning processes.

January 2004 – March 2006:  Project manager of the UNDP/GEF/ Ministry of Environment and Waters project entitled “Establishment of the Bulgarian Clearing House Mechanism”.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES/NEW MEDIA MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

10 years of experience in the ICT sector: 2.5 years as web/graphics designer, web usability/information architecture expert in the private sector (Semantec Bulgaria Ltd – German Software Company based in Sofia, Bulgaria) and 7.5 years in providing IT/web consultancy services for the development and the NGO sectors.

Founder and managing director of the NGO – “NetHarvest – the green web”. (March 2004)

Beside the entrepreneurial and operational roles of managing the organization, I managed complete online projects and was hands-on with project tasks — client relationship management; strategy; scoping of project/business requirements; preparation of proposals, estimates and plans; development of functional specifications; web/graphics design, development and corporate identity, usability inspections using heuristic evaluations; web usability testing; information architecture and web based knowledge/content management systems; Internet marketing and commerce, including management and optimization of websites – Web 2.0; social media management.

Clients: UNDP, TIME Foundation, Bulgarian-Swiss Biodiversity Conservation Program, Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB), Clearing House Mechanism on Biodiversity; Ministry of Environment and Waters; Ministry of Agriculture; National Forestry Board; Sofia University; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and other Governmental and Non-governmental institutions and organizations;

Last project – Supporting Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) in the further improvement and up-date of the organization’s online presence trough introduction and development of a contemporary set of digital tools and products. ToR – http://netharvest.org/media/TOR_BDZP1.pdf

PHOTOGRAPHY

Advanced knowledge of film, digital and immersive photography, digital workflow and digital darkroom techniques; digital storytelling production from the raw source files (image, sounds, video) to the final web-based presentation. Specialized in social/NGO, travel and fine art photography.

My personal web site/portfolio (http://pavelgospodinov.com ) contains at the moment more than 1500 images from about 17 countries and about 200 regions/places and cities.

Streets/urban portfolio: http://pavelgospodinov.com/category/streets/

Bulgaria portfolio: http://pavelgospodinov.com/category/travel/bulgaria-travel/

Europe portfolio: http://pavelgospodinov.com/category/travel/europe/

Middle East portfolio: http://pavelgospodinov.com/category/travel/middleeast/

NGO Photography portfolio – http://pavelgospodinov.com/category/social/

Creative portfolio – http://pavelgospodinov.com/category/fineart/fineartcolor/

Photoshelter – based portfolio with selected travel imaginary – http://pavelgospodinov.photoshelter.com/gallery-list/

Gear and Technologies: Camera Canon 5D Mark II; WACOM tablet Intuos 4 L;

Computer system: APPLE Mac Book Pro;

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Corel Painter, Adobe Fireworks, Professional Noise-reduction software from Imagenomic, Photomatic HDR Tone Mapping software package for HDR image processing;

Image management: Apple Aperture 3; Multimedia: FinalCut Pro, iMovie, Macromedia Flash, KeyNote, On2 Flix (professional flash encoding), Macromedia Dreamwaiver for designing the final web -based projects.

My first solo exhibition (2005) was organized in Sofia. On 5 November 2009 it has been opened my second sole photography exhibition in Sofia, Bulgaria entitled:

“Street photography from 21 Europen Cities”

My images were published in “The Explorer” and “MEDIABOXX” magazines.

EDUCATION

Master degree in Medicine from the Medical University in Varna, Bulgaria; Internship at the University of Zurich, Switzerland; Various courses in Business Administration; PRINCE2 qualified.

OTHER

Fluent in English, working knowledge of  German and  Russian.

Interests: Travel, Photography, digital story-telling, nature, reading

Born Jan. 12, 1968 in Varna, Bulgaria

Pavel’s CV in PDF