I am a Solutions Architect focused on Big Data and Java technologies. Since September 2011, I've worked exclusively in the Big Data space. Prior to that, I spent 10+ years working with Java technologies, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing. Certifications: - Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH) - Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4 - Microstrategy 8 Certified Report Developer - Microstrategy 8 Certified Project Designer - Microstrategy 8 Certified Platform Administrator - Microstrategy 8 Certified Web Developer

Solutions Architect @ - Design & development involving: * Schema evolution * Avro * Kite SDK * Java * Hive * HBase * Sqoop * Oozie From March 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) Eden Prairie, MNBig Data Technical Lead @ * Led teams to develop Hadoop-based capabilities * Hadoop Administration, System Engineering, and Support * MapReduce programming * Java programming * Hadoop Proof of Concepts From February 2013 to March 2014 (1 year 2 months) Eden Prairie, MNSoftware Engineer III @ - Big Data and Big Analytics using Hadoop (Cloudera & Hortonworks): * Platform installation and administration * Developed MapReduce and Pig logic to perform affinity analysis calculations * Loaded mulitple Terabytes of data from Teradata RDBMS into HDFS using Sqoop * Configured Oozie workflows to run saved Sqoop jobs and MapReduce programs * Developed MapReduce program to transform and store retail promotional data in HBase * Leveraged HBase and Twitter Java APIs to load tweets into HBase * Created Hive tables and leveraged BI tools to view Hive data - MicroStrategy 9: Web Customizations via SDK, Administration, Architecting, Mobile (iPhone/iPad), Platform Support - Java (J2EE) Development: Servlets & JSP, Struts, Tomcat, WebSphere, Eclipse. - Web-related technologies: Javascript, XML, XLST, CSS, HTML, JSON, JQuery From February 2005 to February 2013 (8 years 1 month) Biomechanics Researcher @ From October 2001 to January 2003 (1 year 4 months)

BS, Computer Science @ Augsburg College From 2001 to 2004 MS, Biomechanics @ St. Cloud State University From 1998 to 2000 BA, Exercise Science & Sports Medicine @ University of St. Thomas From 1993 to 1997 Austin High School Michael Rasmussen is skilled in: Java, Big Data, Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Data Warehousing, Microstrategy, J2EE Application..., Tomcat, Unix Operating Systems