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Resume - Lorenz Froihofer

Year of birth: 1979
Nationality: Austria
E-mail: lorenz@froihofer.net

Education

03/2004 - 11/2007 Ph.D. study at the Vienna University of Technology
Graduated as Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) with distinction.
PhD thesis: Middleware Support for Adaptive Dependability through Explicit Runtime Integrity Constraints
03/2005 - 03/2006 Vienna University of Technology
Field of study: Computer Science Management
Graduated as Bakk.rer.soc.oec. (BSc.) 07/2005 and Mag.rer.soc.oec. (MSc.) 03/2006, both with distinction
10/1998 - 03/2004 Vienna University of Technology
Field of study: Computer Science
Graduated as Dipl.-Ing. (= BSc. + MSc.) with distinction
Master's thesis: A Survey of WLAN Security with Focus on HotSpot and Enterprise Environments
10/1997 - 05/1998 Military Service
09/1993 - 06/1997 Grammar school (specialized in computer science)
Finished with distinction

Work experience

10/2007 - : Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Vienna

Field of activity: Lecturing "Distributed Computer Systems", "Distributed Components and Middleware", and "Practice in Science and Engineering"

Used technologies: Java (RMI), CORBA, .NET

10/2006 - : Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum in Kapfenberg

Field of activity: Lecturing "Distributed Computing" and "Messaging Design"

Used technologies: Java (RMI), Java Message Service (JMS), Spread

02/2006 - : Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Vienna

Field of activity: Lecturing "Distributed Systems and Middleware"

Used technologies: Java (RMI), CORBA, .NET, Spread

01/2005 - : Research assistant at the Distributed Systems Group of the Vienna University of Technology within the EU research project Dependable Distributed Systems (DeDiSys).

Field of activity: Investigation of the trade-off between availability and consistency in distributed systems with a focus on how availability can be increased by relaxed consistency.

Used technologies: Java Enterprise Edition, JBoss Application Server, Spread

07 - 09/2003: Internship at SIEMENS Austria

Field of activity: Internship within the scope of my master's thesis regarding WLAN Security

Used technologies: Linux, uC-Linux, C, PHP, RADIUS, iptables-Firewall

07 - 09/2002: Research assistant in the distributed systems group of Mediateam Oulu / University Oulu (Finland)

Field of activity: Analyzed and designed a system, developed a distributed application in a team - focused on server development

Used technologies: JAVA, XML, SOAP, Linux, SQL, UML, WLAN, Windows CE

10/2000 - 06/2002: Study assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Software Technology

Field of activity: Hold lectures about UML. Managed two teams during a software engineering process.

08 - 09/2000 and 02/2001: Software programmer at CRP Schützinger, Graz

Field of activity: Developed a database application

Used technologies: MS Access 97 with VBA, SQL Server 6.5, ActiveX-Components, MS Access 2000, SQL Server 2000

Qualifications

Programming languages

  • Java
  • C++, C
  • XML, HTML, CSS
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • Visual Basic for Applications (MS Access)
  • Delphi
  • Turbo Pascal
  • Prolog (Basic Knowledge)

Software design techniques

  • UML, OOA, OOD, EER

Operating systems

  • Windows XP / 2000 / 98 / NT 4.0
  • Linux

Applications

  • Microsoft Office (Winword, Excel, Access) + VBA
  • Rational Rose
  • Visio Draw
  • CorelDRAW
  • PageMaker
  • tripleDAT (harddisk audio recording software)

Languages

  • German (native)
  • English (excellent)
  • Italian (basic knowledge)

Awards

  • 2005: Prize of the city of Vienna for excellent master's thesis
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