Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Michael Sonntag

1979 - 1983 4 years primary school (Übungsvolksschule der PÄDAK der Diözese Linz)

1983 - 1987 4 years secondary school (Übungshauptschule der PÄDAK der Diözese Linz)

1987 - 1992 5 years upper secondary school, vocational track electronics/communications engineering (passed with distinction) (HTBLA Leonding Elektronik/Nachrichtentechnik; passed with distinction)

1.7.1992 - 28.2.1993: 8 months (full regular term); dismissed as lance corporal (Gefreiter)

25.2.1993 - 15.4.1997, 9 semesters computer science (Shortening of prescribed time of study by one semester approved, passed with distinction, title of the thesis: Telearbeit) Title: Dipl.-Ing. (approx. equivalent: MSc)

1.10.1997 - 25.2.2002, Doctoral studies in computer science (Title of the dissertation: POND - An agent system with focus on security and payment for services with consideration of legal aspects) Title: Dr. techn.

25.2.1993 - 11.2.2002, Jurisprudence (First part finished: 10.6.1997; Second part finished: 31.1.2002) Title: Mag. iur. (approx. equivalent: Bachelor of law)

27.11.2006 - 26.6.2007: Habilitation proceedings. Grant of the "venia docendi" for the area "Applied Computer Science" on 23.7.2007. Title: Priv.-Doz.

11.7.1988 - 10.8.1988 Summer practice in the training workshop of ESG

9.7.1990 - 3.8.1990 Summer practice in the technical department of Sprecher Energie

1.8.1991 - 31.8.1991 Summer job in the technical service of IBM Austria

July 1996 till November 1996: Setup of the company IT network und programming of a business-database (MS Access) for MSV-Versand (mail-order company)

Since December 1996: IT-Manager and administrator of MSV-Versand (now MSV Handels- & Dienstleistungs GmbH, a call center for multiple german mail order companies) and related companies (So&Ko Marketingagentur, Telemest - Ucrainian daugther-call center) in a mixed Windows/Linux environment
Tasks:

• Network management, Internet access, Server & Workstation service
• Security (Firewall, Backups, UPS)
• Web pages with own hosting (Typo3)
• Various call center applications (MS Access)
• File-/Mail-/Mailing lists-/Fax-/Webserver (+DNS, DHCP, etc.)
• National and international dialup and leased lines to partner companies
• VPN connection over IPSec to Ucrainian sub call center and for mobile workers for Voice over IP telephony to local PBX
• Programming, adaptation and maintenance of a web-based call center portal (PHP+MySQL) for various in- and outbound campaigns and other tasks

1998-1999: Author of various web sites for several small companies

2000: Creation of a dynamic website for self-configuration of PCs by customers for a computer reseller

2006: Private expertise on the source/author of a libelous E-Mail for a local car retailer

2008: Entry into the list of sworn and certified court experts for computer science (Allgemein beeideter und gerichtlich zertifizierter Sachverständiger für die Fachgebiete 68.10, 68.11, 68.50, 68.60, 68.65 und 68.75)

2009: Court expertise on a website (what constitutes "delivery", adequateness of price)

2009: Private expertise on the security of a software used in all of Austria in an environment which is per definition insecure

1.10.1997 - 30.9.1999 Research assistant at the Research Institute for Microprocessor Applications (FIM) (half-days)

Since 1998: Marketing, distribution and development of the software tool "CodedDrag", developed and sold (solely over the Internet) by the FIM

Associate coordinator of the FIM at the APPLAUD project (EU SOCRATES program / ODL project: 25097-CP-1-96-1-FI-ODL); Representation of the institute and presentation of the project progress at the meetings in Ireland and Iceland

1.10.1999 - 28.2.2002 Externally funded researcher at the Research Institute for Microprocessor Applications (FIM) (half-days) for the project POND on Intelligent Agents (funded by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank, Project Nr. 7742; and the country of Upper Austria, Grant No. Wi/Ge 201.515/1-2000/Wwin)

Since 1.3.2002 Assistant at the Institute for Information Processing and Microprocessor Technology (FIM) (formerly named: Research Institute for Microprocessor Applications)

Since 2002: Member of the program committee and session organizer/keynote speaker of IDIMT - Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks

• 2002 (Session A: E-Commerce and E-Government - Experiences and Projects)
• 2003 (Session A: E-Business, E-Government and Information Society)
• 2004 (Session A: E-Society - Perspectives and Risks for European Integration)
• 2005 (Session A: European Integration: Viribus Unitis)
• 2006 (Session A: IS/ICT Security in the Newly Forming Society)
• 2007 (Session A: IS/ICT Security and Privacy)
• 2008 (Session A: Privacy vs. Security - A clash of systems?)
• 2009 (Session H: The Magic of Open Everything: Open Source, Open Communities, Open Access?)

Sinve 2008: Member of the scientific committee of IRIS (Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion - International symposion on legal informatics)

2003-2005: Application author and project worker on the project "Integrating Agents into Teleteaching Webportals" (Funded by the FWF, Project number P15947-N04)

2004-2005: Co-author of application and project worker on the project "Public WeLearn" (Funded by the University Linz)

2005-2006, 2007-2009 Inventors assistant of the university for computer science/Computer science in economy/Mathematics/Statistics: Extending the patenting and licensing activities at the Johannes Kepler University in the scope of the federally funded programs uni:invent I and II

2007: Evaluator for the project applications of the year 2007 for the EU commission in Luxemburg in the program "eContentPlus"

2008: Evaluator for the project applications of the year 2008 for the EU commission in Luxemburg in the program "eContentPlus"

2009/10: Evaluator for project reports for the EU commission in Luxemburg in the program "eContentPlus"

2007-2009: Application co-author and project worker in the project "Adaptive Learning Spaces - ALS" (Funded by the EU, Grant Agreement Number 229714-CP-1-2006-1-MINERVA-M)

2008-2009: Application co-author and project leader of the project "Adaptive Support for Collaborative E-Learning - ASCOLLA" ("Adaptive Unterstützung für Kollaboratives E-Learning - ASCOLLA" (Funded by the FWF, Project Nr. P20260-N15)

Reviewer/Program Committee Member for the following journals respectively conferences: Network and Computer Applications; Computer Standards und Interfaces; KMGov 2003 (Knowledge Management in Electronic Government); ECEL 2005 - ECEL 2009; i-Society 2006; InSITE 2006 - InSITE 2008; Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations; CSEDU 2009-2010

Organizer of the first "Patent-Day" at the university Linz (20.10.2005, 8-17 o'clock) on patents: Employee inventions and possibilities for commercialization; with 12 speakers and approx. 120 participants.

Organizer of the Roundtable "E-Learning im Recht - Mehr als bloß Texte?" (E-Learning in Law - More than just texts?) on 12.10.2009 of the Vienna Center for Legal Informatics (Wiener Zentrums für Rechtsinformatik - WZRI)

4th Youth Programming Contest of the Austrian Computer Society 1985/86: 11. place with "Christmas program"

SS 1994 and WS 1994/95 Achievement price of the University of Linz

SS 1995 and WS 1995/96 Achievement price of the University of Linz

9.12.1997 Recognition price of the minister of science, traffic, and arts for outstanding performance during study

Natural

German (Mother tongue), English (Perfect both orally and writing)

Programming

Assembler (8086, 8051), Basic (var. versions), Pascal, Modula 2, C, C++, Java, PHP, C#

14) Michael Sonntag: Rationalisierung des Rechts durch Informatik? (Rationalization of law through computer science?) Roundtable "Rationalisierung des Rechts" on 14.6.2010 of the Vienna Center for Legal Informatics (Wiener Zentrums für Rechtsinformatik - WZRI)

13) Michael Sonntag: Technische Grenzen der rechtlichen Modellierung. (Technical limits of legal modelling) Roundtable "Strukturierung im Recht" on 9.2.2009 of the Vienna Center for Legal Informatics (Wiener Zentrums für Rechtsinformatik - WZRI)

12) Michael Sonntag: Betrieblicher Datenschutz - Was heißt das für mein Unternehmen? (Privacy in companies - What are the implications for my company?) Seminar organized by the Kepler Society. 4.12.2008

11) Michael Sonntag: Kollaboratives E-Learning - Rückblick und Ausblick (Collaborative E-Learning - Review and outlook). Presentation at the eLearning Day '08 at the FH Joanneum in Graz on 23.9.2008

10) Michael Sonntag: Rechtliche Fallstricke bei Web-Sites und E-Mail Werbung (Legal caveats for web sites and E-Mail advertisements). Seminar organized by the Kepler Society. 10.4.2008

9) Michael Sonntag: How to get your proposal rejected - Hinweise für Antragsteller im eContentPlus Programm der EU (Hints for proposers in the EU eContentPlus program). Presentation at the eContentPlus information event organized by the FFG on 11.3.2008

8) Michael Sonntag: User Profile. (User profiles). Keynote of the roundtable "User Profile" at the EU information day on 17.1.2008 organized by the federal chancellory

7) Michael Sonntag: Juristische Experten-Communities - Eine Methode zum kontinuierlichen selbstorganisierten berufsbegleitenden Lernen. (Legal expert communities - A method for continuous self-organized vocational learning). roundtable "Juristische Experten-Communities" at the EU information day on 19.9.2007 organized by the federal chancellory

6) Michael Sonntag: Management impliziten/informellen Wissens. (Management of implicit/informal knowledge) Roundtable "Wissensmanagement für Juristen" on 2.11.2006 of the Vienna Center for Legal Informatics (Wiener Zentrums für Rechtsinformatik - WZRI)

5) Michael Sonntag: Metadaten – Notwendig aber gefährlich? (Metadata - Necessary but dangerous?) Roundtable "E-Learning" at the EU Information day on 21.9.2005 organized by the federal chancellory

4) Michael Sonntag: There and back again: A HT/X-ML story (XML, DTD, namespaces, schemata, XSL). Lecture within the program of universitary character (Lehrgang universitären Characters) IT Network Management at the FH Vorarlberg (Winter term 2002/2003)

3) Michael Sonntag: Rechtliche und Technische Aspekte des WeLearn-Systems. eLearning und eTeaching (Legal and technical aspects of the WeLearn system. eLearning and eTeaching). Lehrer-Fortbildungsveranstaltung des Pädagogischen Institutes. 14-15.11.2002, BRG Schloß Wagrein (German)

2) Michael Sonntag: Privacy (and other) issues of E-Government in one-stop portals. Wroclaw Summer School on a Legal Framework for Information Society Informatics. 19-21.9.2002, University Wroclaw.

1) Michael Sonntag: Das Österreichische Signaturgesetz (The Austrian Signature Law). Rotary Club Linz-Urfahr. 21.8.2000, Linz.

Spain: 2010 Invited participant of the ERAB conference (European Research Area Board; selected for discussion with commissioner)
Czech Republic: 2008, 2010 Guest professor at the Vysoká Škola Ekonomická v Praze (University of Economics Prague)
Hungary: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 Guest lecture at the Eotvos Lorand University Budapest (ELTE)
England: 2003 Guest lecture at the University of Reading
Poland: 2002 Lecture at University Wroclaw during a summer school
USA: 1998 Two-week study trip organized by the faculty of legal studies of the university Linz: "World power and world organization: United Nations and Administration of the USA"

Austrian Computer Society (OCG)
Austrian Society for Informatics (ÖGI)
German Computer Society (GI) - Mitglied des Leitungsgremiums der Fachgruppe "Rechtsfragen der e-Wirtschaft und des Internets" (Since 2010)
Wiener Zentrum für Rechtsinformatik (WZRI) - Honorary member (Since 2009)
Österreichischer Juristenverband (JV)

Dissertation

• Reinhard Kinne: Legal protection of software. 2007
• Najmus Saqib Malik: Security in Mobile Agents based Distributed Automation System

Diploma thesis

• Heidi Hudak: Introduction of E-Commerce to SMEs. Methods, concepts and risks. 2001
• Bernhard Schoberberger: Identification and classification of undesired messages and specification of countermeasures. 2001
• Bernhard Mähr: SpamCat: A modular Spam-Filter. 2004
• Thomas Göbl: eLearning support through WebDAV. 2004
• Günther Humer: Planung und Durchführung von Leistungstests für die Notifikationskomponente des WeLearn-Systems (FH Hagenberg)
• Doris Stangl: Die EU-Richtlinie über den rechtlichen Schutz von zugangskontrollierten Diensten und von Zugangskontrolldiensten (FH Joanneum - MIG). 2008
• Klaus Maier: Europäische Softwarepatente - Rechtliche und wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen der Richtlinie über die Patentierbarkeit computerimplementierter Erfindungen und ihrer Ablehnung (FH Joanneum - MIG). 2008

Master thesis

• Güther Gsenger: SMS Library. 2004
• Wolfgang Schlapschy: e-Billing - Development and Introduction in practice. 2008
• Michael Prinz: Elektronische Webumfrage-Software. 2009

Bachelor thesis

• Bernhard Prügl: QTI Editor. 2005
• Michaela Pilstl: Privacy issues of personalized marketing - An international comparison (FH Joanneum - MIG). 2009