Dr. Klaus Schenk

Head of the security unit. I am responsible for design, development and maintenance of architecture, secure protocols, cryptography, software- and hardware implementation for secure embedded devices in head ends & in end consumer devices. My duties comprise taking care for certification, studio approval, consulting of customers during presales, sales and operation, as well as maintaining and coordinating in field security. Moreover I do product management and sales support for the DVB branch of verimatrix.

I was head of DVB security unit. I was responsible for design, development and maintenance of architecture, secure protocols, cryptography, software- and hardware implementation for secure embedded devices in head ends & in end consumer devices.My duties comprised taking care for certification, studio approval, consulting of customers during presales, sales and operation, as well as maintaining and coordinating in field security. Moreover I did product management and sales support for our DVB branch.

I was head of Support and R&D units of the company. Managed a team of 15-20 employees. This position was a continuation of my job as senior manager operations and ended in participation in successfully selling the company.

I was responsible for operations of the company comprising R&D, Support and Sales back office. I managed a team of 15 -20 employees. As part of the board of management of the company I've been involved in building up a company from scratch. This included activities in the whole spectrum of activities a company requires. (Building up a facility, moving, building up a market and a brand, doing sales, hiring, designing, installing products at a customer, debugging, doing customer support, design processes,..)

I was responsible for design, and implementation of the company's DVB CA security solution. I managed a team of 80-100 employees. I learned about guiding a large team in the very difficult difficult environment of a company transition, about decision making and responsibility for a multi million € budget. The job comprised making key technical and architectural decisions, making a business plan for the program, leading project management, R&D and sales for the program.

I got financing and then built up and administrated and maintained of a pool of several hundred computers for the universities physics departments of students, and research staff. While maximizing and maintaining security of the computer pool while keeping usability high and while staying in the given financial framework I learned a lot about security, project management, to work efficiently and on how to keep deadlines. I learned a lot in how to deal with customers, and about cooperation with other groups.

I did research in theoretical physics (pattern formation) as PHD student (pre doc). I learned a lot how on to work systematically, analytically, becoming acquainted with a wider topic autonomously and on how to present my work in talks and papers. Moreover I learned a lot about how to handle social aspects of a professional career.

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