Mark Allen Earnest

Professional Resume

News & Upcoming Events:

11/1/2011 I joined two collegues from Entology at the start-up consulting firm Identity Works LLC

3/19/2010 Luke Denver was born

11/1/2008 Entology purchased by PricewaterhouseCoopers

7/10/2007 Ryan Matthew was born

9/18/2006 I started my new job as an Identity Management Consultant with Entology Inc.

6/30/2006 Jen and I closed on our new house

5/27/2006 Jennifer Schell and I were married. Look for pictures to be posted here.

3/27/2006 I presented a talk entitled "Authentication, Authorization, and Identity Management" at the 2006 PSU Security Day

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MARK ALLEN EARNEST




  • Identity Works LLC--Northampton, PA
    Principal Consultant: November 2011-Present
    • Identity Management Consultant focused on Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Analytics

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP--Pittsburgh, PA
    Manager: October 2008-October 2011

    • Global 500 Telecommunication Technology Company (April 2010 - May 2011)

      • Architecture lead on Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Analytics design and implementation project

      • Worked with client's architects to design highly available and redundant hardware infrastructure and Weblogic 11g cluster to support both applications

      • Led onshore and offshore teams through requirements gathering, design, development and testing phases


    • Fortune 100 Retail Chain (Nov 2009 - March 2010)

      • Architecture lead on Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Analytics implementation

      • Assisted in the design of a custom user interface for end users of both products

      • Worked with client's architects to design highly available and redundant hardware infrastructure

      • Assisted in deployment of software environments, integration connectors, and customizations

      • Mentored several PwC staff on Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Analytics software


    • Fortune 500 National Bank (Oct 2009 - January 2010)

      • Architecture lead on Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Analytics implementation

      • Led evaluation of several RACF provisioning solutions

      • Subject matter expert on several work streams to provide technical perspective to role management and provisioning enhancements plans

      • Mentored several PwC staff on Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Analytics software


    • Fortune 1000 Higher Educational Institution (Sept 2009)

      • Developed and presented a week long in depth training session for the client

      • Training focus was on Oracle Identity Manage architecture, configuration, and development


    • Fortune 500 Utility (Feb 2009 - Dec 2009)

      • Technical lead evaluating requirements and developing a multi-year IAM program roadmap

      • Created infrastructure documents with recommended OIM, ORM, and OID system design for development, testing, and production systems

      • Led several developer training sessions as well as requirement/technology fit gap evaluation sessions

      • Developed custom connector and internal OIM process code to meet the company's specific requirements

      • Project manager for several month staff augmentation engagement to assist client in implementation activities


    • Global 500 Telecommunication Technology Company (Oracle Proof of Concept) (April 2009)

      • Technical lead for the Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Role Manager components of a week long Oracle Proof of Concept pre-sales demo

      • Installed and configured Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Role Manager (with integration between the two) in demo environment

      • Developed several custom connectors and interfaces, including a web services based connector for a learning management system and several custom Blackberry compatible web applications for creating users and approving requests in Oracle Identity Manager

      • Evaluated client delivered requirements and built test cases to demonstrate functionality outlined in requirements

      • Led technical presentation and demo to key stakeholders

      • Mentored several PwC staff on Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Analytics software


    • Fortune 1000 Payroll Company (Dec 2008 - April 2009)

      • Led project consisting of Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Virtual Directory implementations

      • Developed several custom reconciliation connector for Oracle eBusiness HR and deployed customized PwC Generic LDAP connector for Sun One LDAP 6.0

      • Partnered with client architects to develop a roadmap for future phases of project including additional OIM target systems and Oracle Access Manager deployment to replace SiteMinder


    • Fortune 500 Healthcare Company (Oct 2008 - Jan 2009)

      • Led team upgrading Oracle Identity Manager from 9.0.3.1.6 to 9.1.0

      • Performed extensive evaluation of existing Oracle Identity Manager implementation and deployed performance and process improvements

      • Corrected multiple implementation problems with Active Directory and Exchange connectors

      • Developed custom reconciliation connector for Exchange and OID doubling performance of reconciliation

      • Evaluated and recommended solution for complex request/approval workflow requirements


    • Fortune 1000 Telecommunications Company (October 2008 - Present)

      • Led multi-phase Oracle Identity Manager implementation

      • Developed custom connectors for Oracle eBusiness Suite HR, ComApp, RevChain, M6, Kintana, Med2, Network Cost, Kenan Arbor, Oracle eBusiness Suite Applications, Centrify

      • Integrated PwC Generic LDAP connector for Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, and Exchange

      • Developed custom Attestation Routing engine

      • Developed custom dynamic approval routing and notification engine

      • Performed upgrade from 9.0.3.1.6 to 9.1.0.2


  • Entology Inc.--Bedminster, NJ
    Principal Consultant: October, 2006-October, 2008

    • Giant Eagle (July 2007 - December 2008)

      • Led multi-phase Oracle Identity Manager implementation

      • Built custom connector for Peoplesoft HR reconciliation

      • Integrated Oracle's Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, and Peoplesoft User Management connectors

      • Developed custom web services interface to Oracle Identity Manager's API for password management use


    • American Electric Power (Oracle Pre-Sales Workshop) (April 2008)

      • Built a demo system and several test cases for the purpose of walking an audience of engineers, architects, and support personal through several OIM use cases

      • Led a day long workshop using Oracle training materials and Entology in-house developed materials and use cases


    • Wachovia (Oracle Proof of Concept) (April 2008)

      • Assisted Oracle consultants in setting up and configuring OIM and ORM for a proof of concept demo

      • Built several custom connectors and customizations to OIM's internal processes in order to meet PoC requirements

      • Provided assistance in debugging and configuring OIM/ORM integration


    • Sherwin Williams (Oracle Sales Demo) (March 2008)

      • Assisted Oracle Sales Engineer in presenting a demo of Oracle Identity 9.1 to Sherwin Williams focusing on the additional features offered in this version from the version they were currently on

      • Built demo environment to use as the basis of the presentation

      • Ran half day workshop on how to implement OIM approval workflows


    • South Florida Water Management Department (Oracle Proof of Concept) (February 2008)

      • Supported Oracle Sales Team by building and configuring Oracle Identity Manager demo system

      • Set up/built custom connectors for SAP (R3, Business Warehouse, and Portal), Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, and Unix NIS

      • Assisted in final sales presentation (technical demo)


    • Presbyterian Health Services (Oracle Proof of Concept) (February 2008)

      • Supported Oracle Sales Team by building and configuring Oracle Identity Manager demo system

      • Set up/built custom connectors for AD, AD Password Sync, Lawson HR, Epic, and McKesson (two Healthcare specific applications)

      • Assisted in final sales presentation (technical demo)


    • Nationwide (Oracle Proof of Concept) (November 2007)

      • Supported Oracle Sales Team by building and configuring Oracle Identity Manager demo system

      • Set up/built custom connectors for RACF, AS/400, Novel eDirectory, Lotus Notes, Oracle Internet Directory, and SQL-Server based custom application


    • Paetec Communications (April 2007 - November 2008)

      • Led multi-phase Oracle Identity Manager implementation

      • Developed custom connectors for Oracle eBusiness Suite HR, ComApp, RevChain, M6, Kintana, Med2, Network Cost, Kenan Arbor, Oracle eBusiness Suite Applications, Centrify

      • Integrated Entology Generic LDAP connector for Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, and Exchange

      • Developed custom Attestation Routing engine

      • Developed custom dynamic approval routing and notification engine

      • Oversaw upgrade from 9.0.3.1.6 to 9.1.0.2


    • Wyeth Ayerst Laboratories (November 2006 - October 2007)

      • Assisted deployment of Oracle Access Manager

      • Developed custom login page containing dynamic content based on user context and application

      • Developed IDXML abstraction servlet to allow simplified clients to call into OAM


  • The Pennsylvania State University.--University Park, PA
    Lead Systems Programmer: February, 2000-October, 2006

    • Selected to join 9 colleagues in forming a new department called Emerging Technologies tasked with evaluating, prototyping, and assisting with implementation of new technologies

    • Technical lead on the Shibboleth team, a higher education federated identity management architecture

    • Technical lead on single sign on team - evaluated and selected open source SSO system - contributed several enhancements relating to DCE/Kerberos integration

    • Technical lead on a project to develop a custom DCE/RPC client server framework for integrating Smalltalk web front end with backend mainframe applications running on SoftwareAG Natural

    • Developed web server modules and Java library to integrate with PassGO NCPass (RSA SecurID token authentication engine)

    • Responsible for architecture and development of SAML/PKI based authentication/authorization layer for Mellon Foundation funded Peer 2 Peer file sharing utility for higher education use

    • Provided education and consulting internally for Kerberos, DCE, PKI, SAML, and other security related topics




  • Oracle Identity Management: Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Identity Analytics, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Virtual Directory, Oracle Role Manager

  • Identity Management Technologies: DXML, SAML, SASL, Kerberos, PKI, XACML, DCE, SecurID, Biometrics, general cryptography, and federated identity management

  • Directories: Active Directory, Sun Java Directory Server, OpenLDAP, Oracle Internet Directory

  • Languages: C, Java, Perl, x86 Assembly, s/390 Assembly, JCL, XHTML/CSS, and REXX

  • Operating Systems: Solaris, AIX, Linux, zOS, Windows 2000/XP/2003, OS X, and OpenBSD

  • Application and Web Servers: Jboss, OC4J, Tomcat, Weblogic, Apache, IIS

  • Protocols: DCE-RPC, SOAP, 802.11, GSS-RPC, HTTP, NCPASS-TLI, and SASL, WSDL

  • Databases: Oracle 10 and 11, MySQL, ProsgreSQL

  • Mainframe Technologies: FDR, ISPF, TSO, Natural, Adabas, Syncsort, NCPASS, and MXI


Mark Earnest 2011-10-30