Leif Rasmussen

About Leif Rasmussen

I have been working in the IT field for the past 30 years. From programming, to system administration, to networking, from work in the public and privates, from general consulting to working for a vendor, I have done a lot of things in my career. I am open-minded, adaptable (obviously) and like to think outside-the-box. I am always willing to learn something new and have mastered a number of technologies, some that don\'t even exist anymore. I love putting together all the technologies and concepts I have learned over the years and creating new solutions for today\'s problems.

Experience

1. Sr Channel Systems Engineer

   F5

   Jun 2006 — Present

   I have been engineering and selling F5 solutions since 2003, as a partner engineer (see below), as an F5 Field System Engineer (FSE)(5 years), on the F5 World-wide Field Readiness team (2 years) and as an F5 Channel Sales Engineer (CSE)(6 years). I am currently a Security SME but have also focused on the cloud and DevOps movement influence where and how our solutions are deployed. I feel I have excellent understanding what engineers need and want to know when selling a product or solution. I have developed and implement training, using lecture and labs, to train custom, partner and other F5 engineers on F5 solutions. I have helped hundreds of partner engineers (pre and post-sales) and our customers understand the value proposition of technology solutions and how these solutions work within numerous environments, from the data center to the could. My current position allows me to help F5 prepare both the FSE and partner engineering community to understand and sell F5 solutions. In over 30 years in the IT field, I have never met a better engineering team than the team at F5. I have a great deal of respect for our engineering organization and I want to help our partner engineers to achieve the same kind of success. My goals are to help new FSEs and partner engineers learn faster and stay abreast of new developments and help sell better solutions that add value to their customer environments.

Education

• University of Nebraska at Omaha

  Bachelor, Geography

  1984 — 1986

Skills

• Servers
• Cisco Technologies
• Applications Delivery
• Remote Access
• Tcp/Ip
• Data Center
• Dns
• Networking
• System Administration
• Gtm
• Vpn
• Checkpoint
• Ips
• Security
• Network Design
• F5 Bigip
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Wan Optimisation
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Network Administration
• Wide Area Network (Wan)
• Ipsec
• Cisco Systems Products
• Switches
• Load Balancing
• Virtualization
• Network Security
• Routers
• Wan
• Bgp
• Routing
• Network Architecture