Mark Allen Earnest

mark@mystikos.org

Career Summary:

I began my career as a Systems Programmer with The Pennsylvania State University's Administrative Information Services department. During my tenure there I was tasked with the installation, configuration, and maintenance of various zOS utilities and software packages. Over time, my role grew to include security architecture and development duties, where I designed and programmed several authentication/authorization related programs. My primary project was serving as the technical and development lead for Hydra, which is the University's secure DCERPC client/server framework for web based access to mainframe data and business logic.

In 2003 I was selected along with 9 other colleagues to form a new department called Emerging Technologies. We were tasked with investigating, prototyping, and aiding in the implementation of new technologies within the university. My role in this group has centered around security architectures involving SAML, PKI, Kerberos, XACML, and other related technologies. I served as the technical lead on projects such as the implementation of a university-wide web single signon system and inter-institutional federated identity management system. Most recently I co-designed and developed a SAML/PKI based identity management and access control architecture for Lionshare, a multi-million dollar peer to peer academic file-sharing application funded by the Mellon Foundation. I also provided security architecture consultation to various groups around the University and gave security related presentations nationally.

In September of 2006 I accepted a job as a consultant in the Identity Management Practice of Entology Inc. My role there has been to provide consulting support for Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, and various other security and provisioning related software tool to our clients. I have served as the technical lead on several large scale deployments. I have also done significant development against Oracle Identity Manager's API as well as the IDXML Web Services and Identity Event Plugin interfaces of Oracle Access Manager.

Technical Skills Summary:
Employment History:

Entology Inc., 9/2006 ~ Present
Consultant - Identity Management Practice

My role at Entology is to serve as an Identity Management consultant focusing on Oracle's Identity Manager product (previously Thor Xellerate) and Oracle Access Manager (previously Oblix CoreID). During this time I have served as a Java developer and Oracle Access Manager consultant for a leading Pharmaceutical firm, as well as technical lead and developer on two large scale Oracle Identity Manager deployments


The Pennsylvania State University, 1/2003 ~ 9/2006
Lead Systems Programmer - Emerging Technologies

My role in Emerging Technologies has been primarily security architecture research and development. I worked with many departments within Penn State both part of central IT and academic to develop and implement security architectures. I served as the technical lead on both the University wide single sign on implementation and our inter-institutional federated identity management project.


The Pennsylvania State University, 3/2000 ~ 1/2003
Senior Systems Programmer - Administrative Information Services

I was originally hired as a systems programmer tasked with maintaining Penn State's administrative and student information mainframe system. Over time my role grew to include software development and architecture development. In addition to both developing and porting security related libraries and applications to the IBM zOS operating system, I was responsible for the development and porting of the DCERPC based client/server architecture used for web based access to the University's mainframe housed administrative data and business logic.


As a student at Penn State University I held several part time and wage payroll jobs with the University. At Penn State New Kensington I worked as a helpdesk consultant, assisted in computer lab setup and wiring, and redesigned the campus website. At University Park, I worked as a Mainframe Operator where I was responsible for processing output, running batch jobs, and loading magnetic media.


Outside of my career, I spent several years volunteering as a certified Field Team Leader and one year as the team commander for the Centre County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team. Today I remain active as the webmaster and IT consultant handling all of the team's electronic communications needs (mailing lists, SMS callout, etc.)

Finally, I was one of the original members of the Penn State Linux User's Group and gave many presentations at meetings while I was at Penn State.


Education:

I graduated High School in 1996 and enrolled at the Pennsylvania State University later that year. After attending classes full time for three years I was hired by the University and have been sporadically taking classes part time since then. At my current rate of 3 credits a semester I will have my Bachelors Degree in 2008.



References and salary history available upon request