Nationality | Austria |
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 Mag.rer.soc.oec. (MSc.) 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 – in co-operation with SIEMENS Austria |
10/1997 – 05/1998 | Military Service |
09/1993 – 06/1997 | Grammar school (specialized in computer science) Finished with distinction |
Work experience
07/2022 – ongoing | Enterprise Architect at A1Telekom Austria Responsibilities: Transforming the A1 technology landscape towards the “cloud”. |
10/2007 – ongoing | Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Technikum Vienna Field of activity: Lecturing Software Architectures and Middleware Technologies, Distributed Systems, Distributed Components and Middleware, and Practice in Science and Engineering Technologies: Java Enterprise Edition, JSF, JSP, Oracle DB, .NET, CORBA, Spread |
02/2006 – ongoing | Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Campus Vienna Field of activity: Lecturing Distributed Systems and Middleware, Distributed Systems Dependability, Databases; Master thesis advisor Technologies: Java Enterprise Edition, JSF, JSP, Oracle DB, .NET, CORBA, Spread |
10/2016 – 06/2022 | IT Group Lead, Tribe Lead Ordering at A1Telekom Austria Responsibilities: up to 130 people (26 internal) with onsite, nearshore and offshore dev-/ops-teams; budget and resource planning; leadership; organisational development; vendor management |
01/2016 – 10/2016 | Senior IT Project Lead and Business Analyst at A1Telekom Austria Responsibilities: Lead IT projects and analysed requirements in IT reorganization and implementation projects |
07/2013 – 12/2015 | IT Team Lead at A1Telekom Austria Responsibilities: up to 45 people (11 internal) with in-house, nearshore and offshore development teams; budget and resource planning; leadership; organisational development; vendor management |
02/2011 – 06/2013 | IT Architect OSS / Business Analyst at A1Telekom Austria Responsibilities: Software architecture, business analysis, technical lead of integration project, coordination of nearshore development team, partial project lead Technologies: JEE, Tomcat, Spring, JPA, Hibernate, JSF, Maven, Jenkins, JavaScript, Python, Shell Scripting, MS SQL Server, Oracle DB |
03/2011 – 01/2013 | Lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology Field of activity: Lecturing Distributed Systems and Advanced Distributed Systems; Master thesis advisor |
01/2005 – 02/2011 | Research Assistant at the Distributed Systems Group of the Vienna University of Technology within the research projects DeDiSys and TRADE DeDiSys: Investigation of the trade-off between availability and consistency in distributed systems with a focus on how availability can be increased by relaxed consistency TRADE: Research on increased dependability, security, and efficiency through temporal decoupling in online auctions Responsibility: Research, lead development, partial project lead, conference organization, server administration Teaching: Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems Technologies, Advanced Distributed Systems; Master thesis and PhD thesis co-advisor Technologies: Java Enterprise Edition, JBoss Application Server, Smart Cards, Application Server Clustering, Java Server Faces, Google Web Toolkit, JavaScript, .NET, MySQL, Spread |
10/2006 – 10/2009 | Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum in Kapfenberg Field of activity: Lecturing Distributed Computing, Messaging Design; Master thesis advisor 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 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, designed, and developed a distributed application with location-based services in a team – focused on server development 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: Lead two teams in a software engineering project. Hold lectures about UML. Performed requirements analysis meetings with group support systems |
08 – 09/2000 and 02/2001 | Software Programmer at CRP Schützinger, Graz Field of activity: Developed a database application for cash processing and warehouse management Technologies: MS Access 97 with VBA, SQL Server 6.5, ActiveX-Components, MS Access 2000, SQL Server 2000 |
Qualifications
Soft skills
Seminars on communication, rhetoric, didactics, leadership, conflict management, and intercultural aspects
Certified Scrum Master (2012), SAFe 4 Certified Agilist (2018)
Software analysis and design
UML, OOA, OOD, EER, SOA, Function Points
Programming
Java and Java Enterprise (focus), Spring, Ant, Maven, Continuous Integration (Jenkins), C#, C++, C, CORBA, SQL, PHP, Perl, Python, Shell Scripting, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Smart Card Development (Java Card, .NET Card), Visual Basic for Applications, Make, Git, Mercurial, Subversion
Database systems
MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, H2, HSQLDB
Operating systems and virtualization
Windows
Linux: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora
Virtualization with VMWare, VirtualBox, and QEMU/KVM
Docker
Applications
Microsoft Office + VBA, Visio, CorelDRAW, PageMaker, Rational Rose, tripleDAT (harddisk audio recording software), Jira, Confluence, Gliffy, several graphics editors.
Languages
German | native |
English | excellent |
Italian | basic knowledge |
Awards
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 |