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Albert Pichlmaier

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Senior Learning Technology Designer​ 

Albert Pichlmaier is Senior Learning Technology Designer with Drew Academy and concurrently Senior Cybersecurity & Privacy Engineer with Drew & Napier’s Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity practice. He holds a degree in Computer Science from a German tertiary institution. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE), a Certified Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), holder of the Singapore WSQ Advanced Certificate in Learning and Performance (ACLP), and a certified Blockchain Developer. Albert is credited as an inventor of two patents granted in Germany and other countries. His technical expertise covers a wide-ranging area of matters involving Cybersecurity, Privacy Engineering, Cryptography, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Blockchain Development, Data Analytics, Big Data, and Data Visualisation. For the courses and webinars under the Drew Academy, he draws from this pool of knowledge and experience to explain technical content to non-technical audiences, develop proof-of-concept and learning tools, and engage with experts on finer details. Albert is officially recognised on the Lexology Index (previously Who’s Who Legal) 2025: Recommended (Data - Data Experts, Southeast Asia - Data Experts) and Highly Recommended (Client Choice - Data - Data Experts).

Albert was formerly an Executive Manager with the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC), where he was involved in technology assessments for data breach investigations, research into trending / disruptive technologies and advising on technical aspects of various PDPC guidelines and publications (amongst other matters). Prior to his role with the PDPC, Albert worked in technology-related organisations in the private and public sector in Germany, Spain, and Singapore. He was also a technopreneur, having set up a company to provide testing tools for embedded systems and smartcard applications.