Gary Rasmussen Email & Phone Number

San Tan Valley, Az, Us

Dublin 2, Ie

Wesley Chapel, Fl, Us

Extensive experience architecting, managing, and implementing identity-related projects from vendors such as ForgeRock, Sun Microsystems, and Radiant Logic. A solid understanding of the business, security and technological issues associated with identity projects and the ability to identify, and reduce risk. Feature projects include total redesign and replacement of existing global Identity and Access Management infrastructure’s for global financial and education organizations

London, Gb

Consulting engineer performing the following:Forgerock OpenAM and OpenDJ Infrastructure Architect, Engineer, Implementor, and Administrator Radiant Logic Virtual Directory Infrastructure Architect, Engineer, Implementor, and AdministratorAs a consulting engineer at Pearson I am the designed, implemented, managed and handed-off the new Global Identity and Access Management infrastructure consisting of two separate infrastructures. One built on a global private cloud with Pods located in America and the united Kingdom, the other on AWS with an additional region of Asia Pacific. The installation is fully automated and repeatable using a combination of AWS cloud formation and Ansible scripts, fully redundant, and globally highly available.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Access and Identity management consulting. Manage all aspects of associate authentication and authorization. LDAP directory engineer, administrator, and consultant. Siteminder engineer, administrator, consultant. Consultant for application integration using LDAP and Siteminder, trusted and non-trusted environments, internal and external facing applications, SSO and other custom authentication and authorization frameworks. Root cause analysis and remediation.Key accomplishments- Successfully migrated over 150 applications from iPlanet LDAP directory infrastructures to CA eTrust LDAP Directory infrastructure while maintaining 100% up time for all apps- Integrated hundreds of applications to SSO including engineering the Authentication and authorization solutions- Successfully built, tested, and maintained all aspects of world-wide, high availability Siteminder policy store infrastructure including multiple test environments and production from ground up.- worked with additional Siteminder engineers and CA to upgrade from Siteminder R6 to R12 then to R12.51- responsible to testing, monitoring, upgrading and maintaining CA eTrust Directory service network worldwide- responsible for change management procedures and automation of routine tasks relating to directory server infrastructures- scripted monitoring solutions for servers and applications- well versed in usage of SPLUNK monitoring application for problem identification- Introduced Bluestripe Factfinder transaction monitoring solution to our directory network- responsible for integrating and maintaining x509 certs using openSSL and Venafi certificate Manager solution- created and maintained documentation for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity practices and procedures- developed and implemented Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity practices and procedures- performed monthly Disaster Recovery testing and certification- automated routine tasks utilizing shell and PERL scripting

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Customer training instructor for courses including Solaris administration levels 1 and 2. SUN hardware including desk top workstations, deskside servers, and mass storage hardware. iPlanet/SunOne directory server, messaging server, security server.Sun certifications Directory Engineer, Solaris Administration 1, Solaris Administration 2.Skills demonstrated lending to my success:Ability to talk to people from all levels, lay person to engineers, admins to executivesActively pursue additional knowledge, training and certificationsExcellent presentation and communication skillsParticipated in and contributed to team environment enhancing cooperation and team spiritFlexibility in my thinking to encourage students learning and thought processes.Embraced continuous change and adaptation in an ever changing, cutting edge technology environment.Time management skills required for preparing daily curriculum, learning new information for additional courses to teachContinuous collaboration and learning from other instructors, course developers, and engineers

Contract based instructor at Microsoft Certified Training Centers.Microsoft Certified TrainerLevels 1,2,and 3 courses for Office Applications Excel, Access, Word, Powerpoint.MSNT system administrationMCSE