Bryan Taylor

***** ***** ****** **., *******, CA 94538

904-***-****

Summary of General Qualifications

Over 30 years of Information Technology services across government, pharmaceutical, cellular, financial and IT integrators. Provided architectural design, implementation, system administration and security services for physical and virtual systems, storage devices, network devices and cloud services. High energy individual that has achieved successful solutions for internal and external crit-sit customers, development organizations and contracted accounts. Self-motivated individual with excellent communication and collaborative skills, which has allowed me to work remotely for 16 + years while leading technology teams and serving customer groups worldwide. Trusted to manage technical teams, budgets and negotiation of hardware and support contracts.

Experience and Selected Accomplishments

Cloudious, VISA Corporate HQ, CA Jun 2017-2018

Consultant for design and implementation of several IBM Spectrum scale (GPFS 4.2.1-5.0.0) traditional and FPO clusters.

Wrote procedural documents for GPFS cluster setup, shutdown, disk and node recovery, cluster call backs, data locality and policy management for local and off-shore support groups.

Created file systems replication strategy's across 100+ Linux and AIX systems to support DB2 virtual partition strategy failover using ILM policies for file placement, storage pool migration, data retention and file expiration and encryption.

Administered, installed and updated, Red hat 6.2-7.4, CentOS 6.6-7.2, AIX 6.1.-7.2 x86 and IBM Power8 systems.

Responsible for ensuring compliance and population of Yum, NIM and RPM repositories.

Charged with debugging virtual memory, CPU and disk performance issues using standard Linux and AIX debugging tools SAR, Iostat, slabtop, Vmstat, tcpdump, Qperf, top, Topas and others.

Supported Hadoop CDH 5.8.3 clusters, Kafka performance and edge node availability.

IBM Company, RTP North Carolina 2001-2016

Installed, configured and updated IBM Power 5-8 virtual systems using AIX, Suse and Red hat operating systems.

Configured Dual HMC deployment for availability and the facilitation of LPAR mobility.

Configuration of VIO systems for virtual hosting of SCSi adapters, disks, fiber channel adapters and NPIV.

Led a technical team focused storage solutions leveraging SAN Volume Controllers for Power virtual disks, VMM storage for x86 Linux systems and device flash copies

Elevated to subject matter expert within IBM for Virtual systems, Storage devices and General Parallel File system (IBM Spectrum Scale)

Attached to external business offering providing review of customer environments and resolution of ongoing problems impacted business availability

Managed storage and implemented XIV Gen2-Gen 3 DS6000, DS4000 and IBM Storwize devices

Configuration design of B16-B64 Brocade switches and integration of redundant fabric across 4 paired switches in 6 physical sites

Facilitated resolutions of IBM external critical situation customers thru technical solutions and RCA capture and review

Developed BAU procedures used to create level 1 and 2 help desks for 24hr worldwide support for all Event Services sites and hardware

Managed, coordinated and performed on site physical deployment of systems, SAN switches, storage devices, Fiber connectivity, power and cooling system allocation

Utilized Chef and Urban code deploy to push strict changes to active sites using Ruby code via GitLab

Certified in IBM Power, AIX systems administration, HACMP, Barcode Switch and AIX system admin. Advanced trained in GPFS. IBM Black Engineers council participant.

Responsible for the virtual systems and storage design of the IBM Continuous Availability Services with multisite disaster avoidance. This team has hosted high capacity events and offerings such as: 1996 Olympics, www.masters.org, www.usopen.org, www.ausopen.org, www.frenchopen.org, www.ryndercup.org, www.redcross.com (911 disaster fund). Consultant to VISA U.S. corporate for the design and deployment of 4PB shared file system solution for data warehousing and analytical and operational systems.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida, Jacksonville FL 199*-****-****

Deployed IBM SP2 and Regatta p690 systems to support SAP business units

Implemented and deployed SSA raid enclosures as primary back end storage for all systems

Served as Lead Systems Administrator creating technical solutions based on business goals outlined by management

Designed and configured GPFS 1.2 and 2. shared disk volumes serving as oracle and DB2 backend storage

Configured and implemented HACMP 4.x to increase availability within production systems and gain access to a dual boot shared disk setup

Worked with ODM/SP2 development within IBM to resolve class issues found, resulting in APAR fixes worldwide and a change in product deployment

Wrote and promoted SOP documentation used to create a level 1 help desk for 24hr support

IBM Company, Jacksonville FL (contractor) 1999

Served as a contracted technical Manager to all IBM global services deployed in Florida

managed IBM resources, critical situations and RCA review for Global services contacts between Jacksonville and Miami

Technical expert for IBM SP2, GPFS and storage services for all sites contacted by Global services

Managed Support and equipment contacts for Blue Cross Blue shield, Swisher International group and Blue Cross Government side

Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Marietta GA 1997-1998

Systems manager for AIX, HP and Linux x86 systems

Created and submitted annual budgets for resources, software support, hardware support and hardware procurement

Managed 24hr support team for on call support and lead technical team in the administration Rs6000 datacenter systems, AS400 an HP Servers

Managed, configured and deployed LVM and VERITAS disks raid solutions for availability and disk performance

Assisted in the drug submission process by working with pharmacist to accurately journal drug development and provide back strategy for FDA submission and review

Management Decisions Incorporated, Alpharetta GA 1991-1997

Certified contactor for IBM, HP and Sun companies

Contracted to HP performance center for bench marking and performance testing in CA

Contracted to Bell South Cellular for Systems administration, resource interview and hiring

Contacted to AT&T for SP2 installation, administration and systems design

Contracted to Siemens for Systems administration and system implementation

Contracted to Kings Bay Naval base for waterfront support of Linux, Windows 2000 systems a Novel name space

Education:

GPFS advanced and performance trained 2015

IBM Power 5-6 Certified

AIX 5-6 Systems Administration Certified

IBM Black Engineers council participant 2014

HACMP 4 Certified

AS Computer Information Systems, Cameron University, OK

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