Ralph J. Swartwood         

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5102 McCoy St▪ Shawnee, KS 66226▪ Phone:(816) 853-0494 ▪E-mail:rswartwood@swartwoodconsulting.com

WebSphere Administrator and Engineer

Experienced administrator and engineer with over 15 years of experience supporting IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Versions 5, 6, 7 and 8 on AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, and Linux.  Contracted with major corporations such as CSC, IBM, Sprint and Chrysler and major government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Federal Reserve. 

 

Technologies:

WAS V5, V6, V7 and V8

IBM HTTP Server/Apache

CA Introscope/BMC Patrol/Bladelogic

Java programming/J2EE  JSP/Servlets/JDBC/JMS/EJB

JACL/Jython/ANT/Unix shell scripting

IBM Support Assistant/Thread  Analyzer/Visual Configuration Explorer

 

Certifications:

IBM WAS Network Deployment V8.0 – Core Administration

IBM Certified System Administrator - WAS Network Deployment V7.0

IBM Certified Administrator - WAS Network Deployment 6.0

IBM Certified Advanced System Administrator - WAS V5.0

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WebSphere Administration Consultant - 11/2002 to present

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (2/2013-3/2014)

FICO (11/2012-12/2012)

Liberty Mutual (7/2012-10/2012)

IBM (1/2012-3/2012)

 

Federal Reserve (11/2011-12/2011)

Ameriprise Financial (7/2011-8/2011)

Wal-Mart (10/2010 to 3/2011)

Hot Topic (1/2010 to 12/2010)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Chrysler (8/2008 to 05/2010)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

U.S. Department of Education (4/2007 to 07/2008)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Internal Revenue Service (9/2006 to 3/2007)

Portland General Electric (7/2006 to 9/2006)

§  Installed and administered WebSphere Process Server V6 and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V6 in development, test and production environments.

IBM (6/2006 to 7/2006)

§  Contracted with IBM to review a WAS V6 on AIX installation for a state government organization and advise on ways to improve performance and reliability.

§  Contracted with IBM to resolve application problems for a petroleum company with WAS V6 on Windows.

United Missouri Bank (3/2004 to 6/2004 and 11/2005 to 5/2006)

§  Installed and administered WAS V4, V5.1 and V6 on AIX, Solaris and Windows.

§  Upgraded WAS V5.1 to V6 and assisted with resolving application migration issues.

§  Developed scripts to automate the WAS configuration and application deployment tasks.

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (7/2005 to 10/2005)

§  Installed and administered WAS V6 and WebSphere Portal V5.1 on Solaris.

§  Consulted on infrastructure design and application deployment issues.

Sprint (4/2005 to 5/2005)

§  Supported WAS application load and performance testing including monitoring and tuning.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (11/2002 to 1/2004 and 6/2004 to 4/2005)

§  Installed and administered WAS V4 and V5 on Windows, AIX, Linux and zLinux.

§  Installed and administered WebSphere Portal Server, IHS, Apache, and Tomcat.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager for Health Midwest (5/2002 to 10/2002)

I/T Specialist and Certified Project Manager for IBM Global Services (1/1988 to 5/2002)