Senior Cloud Security and Solution Architect

7/2025 – 9/2026

• Interim position as Head of the Cyber Defense Unit for a international biotech corporation
• Management of Security Architecture, Security Engineering, and Securrity Operations Center (SOC)
• Communication and expectation management with C-level upper management
• Member of the security board

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Cyber Security, IT-Berater, IT Architekt Informationssicherheit, Microsoft Azure

3/2024 – 6/2025

• Enterprise Security Architecture consulting for multinational corporations
• Assessment of complex IT security infrastructures on enterprise level
• Security solution architecture covering all levels from OT, on-premise server and network infrastructure, cloud infrastructure
with strong focus on Azure Cloud, big-data pipelines, endpoint protection, IAM, as well as global monitoring
and SIEM
• Application-level security architecture including threat modeling
• Security training for developers and IT staff

Cloud (allg.), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Cyber Security, IT-Berater, IT-Sicherheitsberater, Microsoft Azure

12/2019 – 3/2024

EMTensor is developing a novel portable brain scanning device for early stroke detection, where the image reconstruction and centralized monitoring and control of the scanner devices happens in the cloud.

My responsabilities:
* Lead architect and development lead of the entire IoT solution
* Detailed design of the cloud platform
* Design and implementation of the security architecture and the security controls (in the cloud and the IoT devices)
* Security assessment and reporting for FDA submission
* DevOps (setting up pipelines for automatic build, static code analysis and unit tests)
* Global Office 365 admin
* Design and Implementation of company-wide backup concept

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, DevOps (allg.), Google Cloud, IT Sicherheit (allg.), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Requirement Analyse

1/2013 – 12/2019

Senior Project Manager & Solution Architect in the field of Safety-Critical Systems, Data Integration & Data Management, Big Data and Cloud Computing

At AVL I was leading the development of a Secure Big Data Management and Analytics Cloud Platform in the AVL ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) Project House.

Between 2013 and 2016, my key role at AVL List GmbH, was the Global Technical and Strategic Coordinator of the EU CRYSTAL research project; a European research project with a budget of over 82M Euro and 70 international partners with the focus on interoperability standards for safety-critical systems.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Automotive functional safety expert (AFSE), Cyber Security, Microsoft Azure, Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Solution Architektur

6/2010 – 12/2013

Global Project Coordinator of the ARTEMIS ACROSS project (16M€ Budget, 16 Partners)

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Projektmanagement (IT), Solution Architektur

12/2008 – 1/2012

- Coordination and research activities in many national and international industry-oriented projects
- Solution architect in several project at the institute
- Coordination, preparation, and submission of project proposals
- Supervision of master and PhD students, lecturing and other teaching activities in the field of embedded systems
- Consulting on a regular basis for industrial partners

Aus- / Weiterbildung, Angewandte Forschung

9/2003 – 9/2008

Research activities in the DECOS (Dependable Embedded Components and Systems) project (integrated EU project)

Consulting and know‑how transfer between the Robert Bosch GmbH and the Vienna University of Technology in the
field of fault tolerant systems in the automotive sector

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