Bryan Freeman Email & Phone Number

Carlsbad, Ca

Software Engineer

San Jose, California

-Design and develop numerous enhancements to TSM Data Protection for Virtual Environments for VMware.-Internationalization and Unicode.-Investigate emerging cloud and virtualization technologies including OpenStack and KVM.-Customer interaction and advocacy.-Attended VMworld 2012 conference in San Francisco-Attended OpenStack Summits in Hong Kong in 2013 and Paris in 2014.

San Jose, California

· Lead developer in charge of adding CIFS support to Information Archive; a highly-available, multi-node cluster environment.· Development owner of IA Metafile interface based on Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE).· Debugged and fixed customer problems in the field.· Prototyped new solutions to provide technical feedback to the architecture team.· Authored and owned high and low-level design documents.· Led the design and code inspections and/or reviews.· Led defect analysis and classification team.· Acted as the connections coach for new employees.· Mentored junior developer.· Participated as a Beta Customer Advocate.· Led team to create an integrated test automation framework design.· Designed and monitored implementation of a log normalization and aggregation tool.· Authored several invention disclosures.

San Jose, California

· Researched and developed prototype code for restoring individual objects from a Microsoft Active Directory.· Worked directly with customers to gather functional requirements and develop customer usage scenarios.· Authored high and low-level design documents.· Authored several invention disclosures and one patent submission.

San Jose, California

· Developed and owned common framework for the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and the TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) Discovery Library Adapters to mine data from TSM and TPC into the IBM Service Management common asset database.· Development owner of the TSM Discovery Library Adapter· Assisted in porting SPM storage provisioning workflows to Maximo application framework.· Completed IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification· Actively participated in the Architecture Summit to design the Common Data Model used by IBM Service Management common asset database.· Authored and owned high and low-level design documents· Led the design and code inspections and/or reviews· Level 3 Support Lead: Responsible for working with customer support team to gather and route information about customer problems in the field.· Debugged and fixed customer problems in the field.· Prototyped new solutions to provide technical feedback to the architecture team· Improved Build Verification Test process by automating the assignment and results reporting steps.

San Jose, California

Developed custom Proof of Concept/Proof of Technology solutions based upon customer requirements.Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) / Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Project:· Designed and developed Service and Resource Provisioning web services components. This project eventually evolved into one of IBM’s Cloud Computing solutions.· Developed WebSphere portlets for the user interface.Toolkit to Automate the Installation Process of IBM Tivoli Identity Manager and Tivoli Access Manager for IBM Services Teams:· Developed Eclipse plug-in for user interface.· Traveled to customer site to deploy prototype solution. Worked closely with the customer to gather additional requirements and debug issues.· Trained and mentored junior developers· Authored installation and user guides.· Developed and delivered educational materials used to train customer field service engineers· Test Lead and Packaging owner

San Jose, California

Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive Client:· Developed test plans for distributed, retail software product in conjunction with product release cycles· Participated in a review board, reviewed customer situations/defects; performed root cause analysis to improve test coverage. · Identified and communicated risks, monitored and summarized test team progress regularly to product team leads and management· Documented test procedures and gave presentations to test/development teams· Acted as a liaison between the test team and project team· Organized and ran regular test team meetings· Trained, coached, and led a global test team· Wrote, reviewed and executed test cases based on development designs; participated in review of development design documents· Set up/Maintained multi-platform, multi-language test environments· Developed test tools and automated test scripts· Created new policies/procedures that were adopted by project team improving quality and efficiency· Participated in ISO-9001 and Pharmaceutical audits· Acted as ISO-9001 representative for Development and Function Test teams· Completed 10-month IBM Leadership Excellence Program

San Jose, California

Tivoli Storage Manager Backup/Archive Client:· Executed manual test cases· Reported defects and followed through with developers until defects were rectified

San Jose, California

· Designed and programmed network and Lotus Notes utility applications.· Installed hardware, operating systems and software on Windows and AIX based servers and workstations.· Responsible for Ethernet/Token Ring connections to LAN, troubleshooting network problems, and configuring network hardware.· Developed a Lotus Notes application that read a user’s calendar entries and then scheduled the entry to be sent to an alphanumeric pager at the designated time.· Designed and helped develop a network monitoring program that emulated a DHCP client.

Master Of Science, Software Engineering, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Graduated Summa Cum Laude (GPA: 4.0)Master's Project: "Dynamic Multimedia Content Filtering System" Areas.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: President of the Math and Computer Science Club