Nationality 

Austria

E-mail

lorenz@froihofer.net

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

01/2005 -

Research assistant at the Distributed Systems Group of the Vienna University of Technology within the research projects DeDiSys and TRADE.

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.
Research on increased dependability, security, and efficiency through temporal decoupling in online auctions.
Master thesis co-advisor.
Teaching.

Used technologies: Java Enterprise Edition, JBoss Application Server, Spread, Smart Cards, Application Server Clustering

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, Spread

02/2006 -

Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Vienna

Field of activity: Lecturing "Distributed Systems and Middleware" and "Distributed Systems Dependability"; Master thesis advisor

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

10/2006 - 10/2009

Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum in Kapfenberg

Field of activity: Lecturing "Distributed Computing" and "Messaging Design"; Master thesis advisor

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

German

native

English

excellent

Italian

basic knowledge

2007

Scholarship of the Faculty of Informatics.

2006

Scholarship of the Faculty of Informatics.

2005

Prize of the city of Vienna for excellent master's thesis