Personal Details
Professional Experience
Mar 2010 -
now

T-Systems

Vienna, Austria. Url: http://www.t-systems.at/

  • Security Specialist
Sep 2009 -
Feb 2010

Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences Research & Development Ltd

Wels, Austria. Url: http://www.fh-ooe.at/en/rd/forschung/

  • Responsible for Common Criteria certification process at NXP (Gratkorn, Austria)
Sep 2008 -
Feb 2009

European Microsoft Innovations Center GmbH (EMIC)

Aachen, Germany. Url: http://microsoft.com/emic/

  • Reviewed and analyzed existing management systems for virtual organizations as part of the Security Team.
  • Research on Claims-Based Security (Geneva) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in close collaboration with Microsoft Redmond.
  • The resulting prototype of the "security management system for virtual organizations" was further analyzed as part of my master thesis.
Apr 2008 -
Jun 2008

University of Applied Sciences

Hagenberg, Austria. Url: http://www.fh-ooe.at/campus-hagenberg/

  • Tutor at "Cryptosystems and Keymanagement"
Sep 2007 -
Nov 2007

Thomas-Krenn Consulting GmbH

Hagenberg, Austria. Url: http://www.thomas-krenn.com/

  • Analyzed virtualization technologies used for clustering (OpenVZ/Virtuozzo, Xen, etc.)
  • Researched different hardware requirements (i.e. forwardings from host to guest system)
  • Performed several benchmarks on io, memory, cpu, etc.
Feb 2007 -
May 2007

Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

Bonn, Germany. Url: https://www.bsi.bund.de/

  • Analyzed the functionality and security of web2.0 components
  • Developed and demonstrated several attacking scenarios for web applications and browsers by exploiting the trust relationship through active contents (focus on Ajax)
  • Presented the results of the (published) study in front of the whole division
  • Developed a graphical web front end to analyze and prognose network data for a early warning system that is used by the CERT
  • Developed and implemented a customized web parser
Dec 2003 -
Jan 2007

Creative Computer Technology

Salzburg, Austria

  • Responsible for the security and availability of the national network infrastructure and services
  • Administration and design of highly available linux clusters using low cost equipment
  • Secured and administered local and customer networks with NIDS and hardened Linux firewalls
  • Installed and monitored several VPN tunnels to our customers using Juniper (Netscreen) Appliances along with Remote Access through OpenVPN
  • Developed and implemented several web applications into a Content Management System that is used by more than 3000 clients and business partners daily
  • Designed and implemented an interface for a Unify database that is used in projects nationwide by several well-known gastronomy clients
  • Developed a web-based front end for an international gastronomy system based on a Unix cli
Jun 2002 -
Dec 2003

Con:t:act

Salzburg, Austria

  • Developed and implemented solutions to securely transfer and backup the databases of a magazine company with more than 15000 customers and more than 2000 updates a day
  • Developed a dynamic personalized newsletter mailing system to send out the magazines to all customers with a web front end for administrators, publisher and customers
Oct 2001 -
May 2002

Internet & System Products

Salzburg, Austria

  • Responsible for the security and availability of the local ISP with more than 200 customers
  • Developed a web front end to manage and monitor all production servers and network services
  • Built customized web solutions in contact with clients
Sep 1998 -
Sep 2001

Architects Kollmann & Mayrhauser

Salzburg, Austria

  • Responsible for the implementation of the network infrastructure
  • Administration and maintenance of local servers and network services
Current Education
Oct 2007 -
Jul 2009

University of Applied Sciences

Hagenberg, Austria. Url: http://www.fh-ooe.at/campus-hagenberg/

Secure Information Systems (Master's program)

  • Focusing on:

    - Advanced Cryptology (Cryptoanalysis, Mobile Cryptology, PKI)

    - Advanced Networking (Protocol Stacks, Routing, QoS)

  • Degree dissertation:

    Security management system for virtual organizations

Best Project Award in 2007.

Academic Excellence Scholarship in 2008 and 2009.

Oct 2004 -
Jul 2007

University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria

Hagenberg, Austria. Url: http://www.fh-ooe.at/campus-hagenberg/

Computer- and Media Security (Bachelor program)

  • Degree dissertation:

    1. Security methods of the ePassport

    2. Security analysis of Web 2.0

Academic Excellence Scholarship in 2004 and 2005.

Sep 2002 -
Feb 2004

Evening class, Vocational Training Institute

Salzburg, Austria. Url: http://www.bfi.at/

Sep 1998 -
Sep 2001

Vocational School

Salzburg, Austria.

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