Born 29 September 1969 in Vienna, Austrian citizen

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I. Work experience

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Since 2/2022

Project Manager, lawyer at ACOmarket GmbH

• Project management (IT services/general)

• Software licence agreements, data protection

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 9/2021 - 1/2022

IT Manager at the Austrian Ministry of Finance

• Management of external legal and business databases

• Editing of the ministry's legal database

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11/2019 – 8/2021

Educational leave, participation in founding an IT start-up

• Danube University Krems

• Legal Tech Hub Vienna (www.lthv.eu)

• INiTS (www.inits.at)

• TheVentury (theventury.com)

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11/2004 – 10/2019

Head of IT Department at General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism

• Development of IT strategies

• Budget planning and management    

• Building, leading and administering a team of legal staff, IT experts and software testers

• Choosing and managing contractors      

• Designing and negotiating IT contracts

• Multi-programme/project management

• Consulting for and reporting to the top management, evaluations and presentations (e.g. in parliament, at FCO in London)

 

2/2003 – 10/2004

Member of legal staff and IT project manager at General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism    

• Legal advisor for international applicants and their legal representatives in ‘Claims Committee’ proceedings

• Development of an innovative legal informatics solution for these proceedings (concept, discussion, design, programming and project leadership)

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2/2000 – 12/2002

Legal consultant, legal informatics designer and IT project manager at the leading Austrian legal publishing house ('Manz')

• Interface connecting legal staff, internal and external software developers and graphic designers

• Development of intuitive user surfaces for the leading Austrian legal online database (www.rdb.at)

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Before: Legal trainee in court at Provincial High Court Vienna and in law firms, administrative work at Austrian Federal Railways, Vienna University of Technology, assistant to the public prosecutor at Provincial High Court Vienna, legal lecturer at adult vocational training institutes, train director at Austrian Federal Railways

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II. Qualifications

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Since 1 Nov 2019

Innovation Management (Certified Programme), Danube University Krems

Ongoing, modules and exams absolved: Product and Technology Management, Business Excellence

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12 Dec 2008    
Diploma of organisational development and change management, WIFI Management Forum Vienna

22 Oct 1997
Law degree (Mag.iur.), University of Vienna (extra occupational)

Numerous courses, workshops and coaching in the areas of management, leadership of employees, IT and proficiency in English (WIFI Vienna, WIFI Management Forum, BFI Vienna, ps-train Vienna etc.)

Languages: English confident in business discussions, school knowledge French
IT: User and general knowledge re. numerous current technologies, experienced in software development, testing etc.

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III. Achievements

Experience

17 years of responsible agency in different IT management positions in both the private and the public sector, national and international contexts, extensive budget responsibility and leadership of 20 employees

Focus

• Innovation in legal informatics and e-government

• Team building and leadership, development and management of knowledge

• Securing the availability of manifold IT infrastructure

• Preparation of strategic top management decisions

• Processing public tendering proceedings and drafting software contracts

Special accomplishments

• Building an IT department, leading a heterogeneous team in a project-like organisation with quickly changing requirements and framework conditions

• Creation of a tailor-made legal informatics solution that enabled less than 100 legal staff to process over 20,000 applications in a challenging international procedure precisely and efficiently

• Continuous optimisation of technologies to foster cooperation and streamline processes, successful protection of sensitive data and systems

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