I have been a technical staff member at ITEC (Department of Information Technology) since 2003. My responsibilities primarily include system administration, but I am also engaged in teaching and research.

IT System Administration
I am responsible for managing about 20 Linux-based server systems and for maintaining the basic networking infrastructure at ITEC (in cooperation with our University Computer Center (ZID)).

Teaching
I have been giving various lab courses in computer science, including:

• computer organisation
• object-oriented design and programming
• software engineering
• compiler construction

Research
As a technical staff member, I sometimes assist researchers at our department with their scientific work and contribute to publications as co-author. My research interests include:

• Image and video retrieval
• Video coding and communication
• Distributed multimedia systems
• Programming language support for multimedia
• Multimedia security

Curriculum Vitae
I was born in Klagenfurt in 1971, attended school here, and went to Vienna University in 1990, where I received my  master´s degree in mathematics and physics in 1996. Back in Klagenfurt, I got a university assistant position at the System Security research group at Klagenfurt University during the years 1998-2001. After a year of working as a free RTLinux consultant and developer for FSMLabs Inc. in Austria, I was employed by Quant-X GmbH, St. Veit/Glan, as an HPC (High Performance Computing) consultant in 2002. Since 2003 I have been responsible for managing the server systems and networking infrastructure at ITEC, where I am also contributing to research and education.