Kim Taylor Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Hanover, Md, Us

Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Git, Jenkins, Groovy, Ansible, Bash, Python, Artifactory

New York, Ny, Us

Automate time-consuming manual tasks for production services team by leveraging GitLab CI and Ansible Tower across multiple application pipelines.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Gb

Monitor, diagnose, and resolve complex build and release issues arising across the CI pipeline for 100's of Linux software packages and kernel modules under development by remote teams.Leverage and enhance administrative CLI tools built on REST API interfaces across Jenkins, Artifactory, and the Atlassian product suite: Bitbucket (Git), Confluence (Wiki), Jira (Kanban, Scrum).

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Developed suite of tools using Bash, Perl, Python, Groovy, and jq, to configure, audit, and securely delegate administrative access to shared DevOps enabling platforms.Automated software application CI/CD pipelines for build, test, integration and deployment using Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, UrbanCode, etc.

San Jose, California, Us

Integrate and execute various benchmarks to evaluate and challenge performance profiles of scale out NAS data storage products. Engage with engineering to diagnose regressions and overall impact of new release features.Maintain and enhance LAMP based QA test automation to increase utilization and extend useful life of legacy services. Explore and adapt equivalent processes to expand into an evolving Python based continuous integration test driven framework

San Jose, California, Us

Develop scalable and repeatable tools and procedures to address complex configuration management, and enhance stability, performance, and availability of rapidly growing networked storage and server farm supporting end-to-end QA lifecycle testing of commercial software and hardware products .Leveraging Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, (LAMP), Perl, bash, VMware, etc.

New York, Ny, Us

Monitor, Diagnose, and Troubleshoot, highly distributed, multi-vendor, Windows and UNIX enterprise applications.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Technical leader and open systems evangelist with core team delivering enterprise web hosting platform from inception to maturity, serving 100's of 24x7x365 internet-facing applications.Specializing in Open Systems Management, Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, Identity and Access Management, Privileged Access and Role Engineering, LDAP-enabled Application and Systems IntegrationTraining:Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT) 2003Siteminder Deployment 2002Micromuse Netcool 2001Lotus Notes Development 1999AIX Administration 1997

Key contributor in analysis and migration of mission critical telemarketing systems and applications from legacy HP3000/Business Basic to state of the art HP-UX/C, Oracle on EMC storage.

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(Now Computer Associates)Assumed Systems Admin role for distributed and multi-vendor UNIX/C development lab.Developed commercial software products to manage diverse network of UNIX, Windows, and OS/2 systems.Provided high level support and diagnosed issues with software deployments over key client's 300 store national satellite network.

Burlington, Ma, Us

Enhanced resolution of mass spectrometer printouts by 400%Software development for process control monitoring applications in SunOS UNIX, C, PostScript, CVS, X11, and OpenView.

Cranberry Township, Pa, Us

I&C DPU - Automated PL/M software documentation process on VAX/VMS yielding 800% improved completion rate for Verification and Validation team to NRC guidelines.I&C Eagle21 - Designed and Developed the PL/M embedded self-test component of a nuclear plant process control monitoring system. Nuclear Simulators - Designed and Developed in UNIX/C an interactive graphical console used by trainers to monitor and control simulated plant status. Initiated use of NFS and Source Control for the growing distributed application development team. Worked closely with plant operators to devise accurate representations of their unique installations.Communications - Developed Sun Microsystems based graphical operations console overview of the telecommunications network, gathering real-time asset and monitoring data from AT&T 3B2 over TCP/IP and from VAM/VMS over DECnet.Process Control Division - WDPF Family - Developed reusable common UNIX/C libraries and enhanced distributed software development process for a team of 50 across multiple applications in SunOS and spearheaded migration to Solaris.Developed ONC RPC based network monitor for rod positioning system.Developed prototype data interface for neural network and next generation object oriented API.

(Now Texas Instruments)Delivered C++ software debugger for embedded systems development, integrating C front-end with ADA back-end.Implemented portions of the C++ Standard Library for this initial commercial product offering from an established defense industry supplier.

Various engagements with Westinghouse where continued client satisfaction earned extended and renewed contracts across multiple project teams and businesses.

Managed sourcing, integration, and deployment of custom Intel-based micro computer system, replete with bubble memory, to replace legacy pharmacy system -- eventually succumbed to the IBM PC. ;-)

Managed a small team of COBOL developers to grow a public/private computer services initiative leveraging a Federal grant for purchase of a DEC, RSTS/E based minicomputer. Assisted in Jobs training course. Developed a budget management tool in DBase II for state government office.

Continuing Education, Accounting I, Ii; Economics I, Ii; Relational Database Mangement; Object Oriented Programming With C++

Continuing Education, World Politics, Vax Assembler

Continuing Education, Numerical Analysis In Fortran

Other, Physics, Computer Science, Math