{"id":25070,"date":"2019-08-16T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=25070"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:44:30","slug":"ucf-makes-lifelong-imprint-on-alumnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-makes-lifelong-imprint-on-alumnus\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Makes Lifelong Imprint on Alumnus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25072\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25072\" class=\"wp-image-25072 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-I-edited-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-I-edited-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-I-edited-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-I-edited-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-I-edited-299x204.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-I-edited.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Rassmann and his soccer team.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ted Rassmann received much more than an education from UCF.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, a mathematics degree set him up for a successful career as an IBM executive. But it takes a special love for your alma mater to set up a charter fishing business after retirement called Old Knight Fishing Charters. Or send your twin sons to UCF for their college experience. Or even travel from Australia back to campus for a football game and an Old Knight soccer tournament.<\/p>\n<p>For Rassmann, UCF means everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so much more than a formal education, it\u2019s the overall experience and personal growth you gain, along with the lifelong friends. It\u2019s just a really special experience to have gone to UCF,\u201d Rassmann said.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25073 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-III-edited-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-III-edited-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-III-edited-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-III-edited-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-III-edited-299x339.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Ted-Rassman-III-edited.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A soccer scholarship drew Rassmann from his native New Jersey to what was then Florida Technological University. Practice and games kept him busy, along with academics. Rassmann dedicated himself to learning applied mathematics, and his diligence paid off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are sitting in class, you don\u2019t really understand how useful UCF\u2019s education is going to be. I used what I learned in those classes every day of my career,\u201d Rassmann said.<\/p>\n<p>That career started at AT&amp;T right out of college in the information technology field. As the company grew and eventually split into separate companies, Rassmann seized an opportunity to work at IBM where he supervised accounts all over the world. IBM would be home for the next 21 years and carry him into retirement. Today, Rassmann enjoys his time fishing, spending time with his wife of 37 years (they met at UCF playing Frisbee), family and grandchildren, and helping UCF with Math career days and special projects like the India Center.<\/p>\n<p>UCF has always been planning for the future, and that preparation has made it into the educational leader it is today, Rassmann said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUCF isn\u2019t afraid to embrace change, and that creates a really special environment. Embrace your experience at UCF; it truly is priceless!\u201d Rassmann said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ted Rassmann received much more than an education from UCF. Sure, a mathematics degree set him up for a successful career as an IBM executive. But it takes a special love for your alma mater to set up a charter fishing business after retirement called Old Knight Fishing Charters. Or send your twin sons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":25072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,38,12,28],"tags":[6105,3466],"class_list":["post-25070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-breaking-news","category-mathematics","category-top-news","tag-ted-rassmann","tag-ucf-alumni"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UCF Makes Lifelong Imprint on Alumnus - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-makes-lifelong-imprint-on-alumnus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCF Makes Lifelong Imprint on Alumnus - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Ted Rassmann received much more than an education from UCF. 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