Stephen Swann
Curriculum Vitae
Enterprise Identity & Access Management Consultant
Stephen Swann MBCS CISSP
Enterprise Identity & Access Management Consultant
Contact Details
Postal Address / 9 Carnhill ParadeNewtownabbey
County Antrim
BT36 6LH
United Kingdom
Telephone / Mobile: +44 (0)7800835930
Email /
Web / www.stephen-swann.co.uk
Summary
I am an experienced results-driven IT professional specialising in Identity and Access Management and network security. I have over 20 years experience in delivering IT solutions primarily in the financial services industry.
Key skills include:
· Excellent knowledge of the IBM Tivoli security portfolio including: IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, IBM Directory Integrator, WebSphere Application Server and IBM DB2.
· Solution architecture of enterprise scale web based applications
Professional certifications
· CISSP
· IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Tivoli Security
· IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional
o IBM Service Management Security and Compliance V4
o Tivoli Security Management Solutions 2005
o Tivoli Security Management Solutions 2006
o Tivoli Security Management Solutions 2007
o Tivoli Security Management Solutions 2008
· IBM Certified Deployment Professional
o IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator v7.1
o Tivoli Access Manager for e-business v6.1.1
o Tivoli Access Manager for e-business v6.0
o Tivoli Identity Manager v5.1
o Tivoli Identity Manager v5.0
o Tivoli Identity Manager v4.6
· IBM DB2 v9 Fundamentals
· EXIN Certification in ITIL Foundation
Technical experience
· LDAP
o Active Directory; IBM Tivoli Directory Server; OpenLDAP; CA eTrust Directory
· Operating Systems
o Linux; AIX; Solaris; Windows (2003/2008/XP/Vista/Windows 7)
· Web Development
o HTML; Java; Javascript; PHP
· Scripting Languages
o Unix Shell Scripting; PERL; VB Script
· RDBMS
o DB2; MS SQL Server; Oracle; MySQL
· Tivoli Security Products
o Tivoli Access Manager; Tivoli Identity Manager; Tivoli Directory Integrator; Tivoli Directory Server
Employment Details
Pirean (February 2008-present)
Security Consultant
IT Security Consultant providing consultancy, support and education services relating to Identity Management principles, the IBM Tivoli Security suite of software and web based application delivery to clients around the UK including:
· Skills Funding Agency – Identity & Access Management project where I designed and developed the J2EE applications supporting the requirements for Self-Registration & Self-Care integrating with complex workflow solutions within ITIM.
· Developed Pirean branded solutions such as the Google Adapter for ITIM and the Salesforce Adapter for ITIM as well as the Pirean Risk Manager workflow extension for ITIM.
· Oxfordshire County Council – Identity & Access Management project where I designed and implemented a solution to consolidate 300,000 identities across 300 identity sources and provide access to a number of 3rd party hosted systems.
· Barclays Bank – Logical Access Management project where I acted as the primary solution provider for the compliance project based on IBM Tivoli Identity Manager and Pirean’s Compliance:One. As well as designing the technical solution, I was the primary developer of a range of TDI Assembly Lines as well as custom Adapters.
Independent Consultant (July 2007 – January 2008)
IT Consultant
Independent IT Consultant providing consultancy, support and education services to startup companies in Northern Ireland being sponsored by the government backed Invest NI organisation. Startups included:
· Rantec Research Limited – a FOREX modelling research company
· Smartmed Systems – an I.T. organisation specialising in medical software
National Australia Group (UK) (January 2005 - June 2007)
Manager; Identity Management
Manager of the Identity Management Engineering team managing a team of 8 technicians, 2 project leaders and a variable number of external contractors.
Responsible for the rollout of the security infrastructure for the Internet Banking applications for both Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank using a mix of Tivoli and Computer Associates security products.
I acted as a customer reference site for Tivoli security products and produced a case study, customer testimonial video and presented to both IBM officials and other customers.
National Australia Group (UK) (January 2003 – December 2004)
Technology Consultant
Technology Consultant specialising in the architectural design and deployment of Tivoli security solutions protecting National Australia Group’s internally facing web based applications and the group’s Retail Internet Banking applications.
National Australia Group (UK) (January 1995-December 2002)
Senior Technical Specialist; Core Systems
Senior Technical Specialist designing and developing Mainframe Applications on a Bull mainframe. I joined the callout support team to support the system overnight and at weekends, as well as supporting the system during office hours.
I was the primary technical resource working on the conversion of the LiveLink system during the switch from the DPS8000 to the DPS9000 mainframes in 1998. I also wrote a positioning paper which defined opportunities for enhancing the LiveLink application's operability after the migration. This paper resulted in a funded programme of initiatives which lasted more than 6 months and included technical solutions for automating manual operating tasks.
I was the primary point of contact for Northern Star engagement during the major projects that the Bull Engineering Room undertook, eg Year 2000 Readiness, EMU. I also worked with Northern Star to define Bull specific change management processes which were mutually beneficial. This method of Release Management is still in use to this day.
I led the technical design and delivery of the Branch Mergers during the late 1990s which involved working closely with other work streams and the business stakeholders. We suffered no loss of information or data integrity during each transition of account information from the closing branch to the remaining branch and the merger process is still available as a documented set of procedures should any future mergers be required.
I developed applications on an IBM RS6000 in C, primarily for the National Australia Group (Europe) Telephone Banking System. The code interfaced with an X25 network to the DPS9000 Transaction Processing System, an IBM MVS mainframe for access to an ORACLE database, a SUN Microsystems gateway and an IVR router. The code uses IBM's MQSeries middleware product for asynchronous processing.
Northern Bank Limited (January 1990 – December 1994)
Programmer; Core Systems
Computer Programmer designing and developing Mainframe Applications on a Bull DPS8000 mainframe.
Education
1982 - 1989 : Belfast Royal Academy, Cliftonville Road, Belfast
'A' Levels attained in Mathematics and Economics
'O' Levels attained in Mathematics, Statistics, Additional Mathematics, English Language, Physics, Geometric Drawing, Geography and Chemistry
RSA course completed in Computing
Personal
I spent a number of years captaining my local hockey club and have been heavily involved in club administration from an early age. I’ve also become a published author of a book on the history of the club – Short Corners, Long Memories (A History Of East Antrim Hockey Club).
I’ve also written a number of books for children and I design/build websites for friends and family:
http://www.owlsladies.com/
http://www.squareseven.co.uk/
http://www.eastantrim.co.uk/
http://www.sosgroup.co.uk/