Curriculum Vitae
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn.
Elke Stangl
● The current version of this CV can be found at punktwissen.at/elke ● Vision Building bridges between human beings and technology ● Married to Siegfried Proyer ● Born 1969 in Linz [Austria] ● Physicist and PKI Expert with experience in R&D, IT Security, IT [project] management, working in global enterprise environments. ●

Career
● Consultant IT Security and PKI, Managing Partner punktwissen Proyer & Stangl OG. Focus: Public Key Infrastructures and digital certificates. Working for European enterprise customers. ● Since 2006 Professional Services Subcontractor Delivering PKI projects by order of managed security services providers abd.software vendors ● Since 2007 Lecturer Master's degree programme 'Advanced Security Engineering' , FH Joanneum. Yearly lecture 'Authentication, Authorization and PKIs'. Member of ASE development team. ● 2006 Lecturer University of Salzburg Ditact Women's IT Summer Studies'. Lecture 'Cryptography Basics'. ● 2005 Contract Work [Physik,IT] by order of Club of Vienna. Project: Taming capitalism. Chaos theory, network theory, diffusion. ● 2001-2005 Senior Consultant [IT-Infrastructure, Security] Microsoft Austria, Consulting Services. Projects delivered to Austrian enterprise customers: PKI, Active Directory, Exchange, ISA, server hardening. Focus since 2002: Windows PKI deployments. ● 2000-2001 Manager IT Infrastructure Austrian Research Centers, department Organization and IT. 5 direct reports. Interim CIO together with colleague. ● 1998-2000 Self-employed IT Consultant and Trainer IT consulting and support for SME companies, project support IT outsourcing at Austrian Research Centers, delivery of IT trainings and curriculum development 'vocational training IT Technician' at BUZ [local IT training center]. ● 1995-1997 Researcher Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf, Division Materials Research, Center for Microcharacterization. Contract research for steel industry, analysis and optimization of steel microstructure. EU and national projects. ● 1992 Visit NKT Research Center, Copenhagen. ● 1992-1995 Researcher University of Linz, Department of Applied Physics. Fabrication and characterization of high-temperature superconducting thin films, modelling of gas dynamics in laser ablation process. BRITE-EURAM project 'Thin Film HTC Superconductor Growth at Microwave Frequencies'. Development and optimization of experimental setup for pulsed-laser deposition. ● 1990-1995 Assistant lecturer [Linz] Lectures, labs, exercises, tutorials: superconductivity [Lecture re-design from scratch], laser materials processing, solid state physics, foundations of physics, theoretical physics. Coaching of diploma students. ●

Professional Experience
● Public Key Infrastructure Design, planning and implementation of PKI core components and PKI-enabled client applications [Up to 100.000 users, integrated with global AD with up to 100 sites]. Know-how-Transfer, workshops, support, troubleshooting. ● X.509 Certificates Design of certificate profiles, troubleshooting and analysis of the validation of X.509 certificates, check of standards compatibility. ● Standards and Technologies in Networking [Security] 802.1x, VPN, IPsec, Kerberos, RADIUS, LDAP, SCEP, DMZ design, WLAN security, DNS, DHCP, WINS, NAP. ● Experience with PKI [CA] products, contact to providers Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008, Verizon UniCERT 5.2, 5.3. Public CAs: Verizon Omniroot, A-Trust ● Hands-on experience with PKI-Enabled Hardware and Software, contact to vendors Windows logon with smartcards or tokens, Encrypting File System [EFS], e-mail signature and encryption, PDF signing, code and macro signing, web servers, SCEP, CISCO switches, CISCO VPN, Nortel VPN, Phion firewall, custom apps and devices. Software-CPSs, Card Modules. Client hardware key stores: Infineon Sicrypt cards, Aladdin eToken. Hardware Security Modules [HSMs]: nCipher, SafeNet, Utimaco ● Secure Systems Design Risk analysis, alignment with organizational an technical requirements, trusted advisor or 'mediator' role, product vendor evaluation and tests. ● Microsoft technologies Active Directory design [since Windows 2000], Windows OS [since Windows NT Server, Windows 3.1 client], AD integrated PKI, Windows Certificate Enrollment, Rights Management Service [RMS], certificate management in ILM [CLM]. ● IT Basics Troubleshooting [Sniffer, Logfiles,...], TCP/IP, Office, databases [Access, SQL], Scripting [VBS, JS], web development [HTML, CSS, ASP, DBs: TXT, MDB], accounting software for SMEe, image processing. ● Modelling Gas dynamics in laser ablation, chaotic behaviour, instabilities, diffusion, theory of networks ● Physics, Natural Sciences fundamentals [physics, chemistry, mathematics], laser physics, optics, solid state physics, theoretical physics, superconductivity, quantum statistics, fluid dynamics. ● R&D Applied Physics and Materials Science design and implementation of experimental setups, [Excimer] laser technology, materials development, high temperature superconductors, ceramics, steels, films and coatings, vacuum technology, ion mill, measurement engineering, electrical and optical material properties, X-ray diffraction analysis, TEM crystal structure analysis, automation. ● [Project] Management Experience in global PKI projects, best practices for certificate and smartcard management, 'pitfalls', 'notes from the field'. Management of direct reports, budget planning, acounting, IT strategy develoment, technical project management, co-ordination of international 'virtual' teams of IT experts, application for and management of international research projects. ● Documentation System architecture documentation, implementation guidelines and documentation, quick but detailed 'on-the-fly-documentation', scientific publications, lectures, training handouts and lab instructions. ● Training, Speaking, Lecturing IT end-user training, level 400 sessions for IT experts, CIO level overviews, academic lectures [physics,IT], presentations to large audiences. Development and piloting of new curricula. New lectures [Superconductivity, PKI], Member of the ASE [FH Joanneum] development team. ●

Education, Qualifications, Awards
● 2003 Microsoft Gold Star Award Microsoft internal award ● 2002 Microsoft Certifications Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer / Administrator for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. ● 2005 Microsoft Great People Award - Excellence in Execution Microsoft internal award ● 2000-2001 Post-graduate studies 'Communication and Management Development' at the Danube-University Krems, project: 'Research organisations between centralism and decentralism' [in German], with distinction. ● 1996 Award for exceptional achievements by the Ministry of Science ● 1995 Doctoral examinations with distinction Promotion sub auspiciis praesidentis 1996. ● 1995 Young Scientist Award of the European Materials Research Society at Conference of Laser Ablation [COLA] 1995. ● 1992-1995 PhD Studies, Doctorate in Technical Sciences Thesis: 'Pulsed-Laser Deposition of High Temperature Superconducting Thin Films - Fundamentals and Technology' [in English]. ● 1991 Diploma Thesis at the Department for Applied Physics: 'Preparation of Thin Layers of the High Temperature Superconductor Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O by Laser-Induced Depositon' [in German]. ● 1987-1992 Studies: Technical Physics Johannes-Kepler-University of Linz. Basics: physics, mathematics, chemistry. Focus: solid state physics, laser physics, optics, high temperature superconductivity, gas dynamics, quantum statistics. Final exams with distinction. ● 1990 and 1989 Award [Perfomance-based Scholarship] Technical of the University of Linz ● 1979-1987 High School focus on natural sciences, final exam with distinction. ● Languages German, English [daily business and technical conversation] ● Driving Licence B ●

Hobbies and Other Interests
● Real work House and garden ● Writing Personal websites as creative playground ● Reading Personal favourites ● Scepticism Discussions with people inclined to esiterism. Discussion at radices.net ● Philosophy and Natural Science Technology and society. Physics, quantum cryptography, classical cryptography. ● Member of Advisory Board of the University of Linz 1996-2000. ●

Links
● Public Key Infrastructure punktwissen PKI Offerings ● Company website punktwissen Proyer & Stangl OG punktwissen.at ● Interview WIFI IT-Port PDF ● Lectures on PKI, cryptography, networking theory Downloads at radices.net ● FH Joanneum Contents Lecture on PKI ● FH Joanneum Talk Symposium 'Security Is...' ● ditact Contents cryptography lecture ● Interview MONITOR on professional activities and personal background Online version ● Club of Vienna Announcement of public lecture [de] ● PKI project reference delivered as consultant employed by Microsoft Microsoft reference website ● Self-employed IT consultant for SMEs Archived website ● Scientific Publications Laser physics, high temperature superconducting thin films, gas dynamics Search Results scholar.google.com ● Seibersdorf Today: AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology. Materials Technology ● Scientific Roots Department of Applied Physics ● Universität Johannes Kepler University of Linz ● Personal website e-stangl.at ● Private website - scepticism and other science related issues radices.net ● Private website - society About life, the universe and everything [weird stuff] subversiv.at ● Private 'portal' Creative activities - even weirder stuff epsi.name ●

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