Stronger teams.
Smarter IT.
Better outcomes.

I lead people, improve IT services, and connect technology decisions to organizational priorities. My experience in people management, support operations, and project leadership shapes how I develop staff, strengthen services, and guide change.

People leadership. Operational focus. Business perspective.

Brandon Taylor
Brandon TaylorPeople. Technology. Operations.

Selected impact

Progress you can measure.

Developing people, improving service delivery, and expanding capability — with measurable results.

43%

Increase in employee retention

Hired and mentored part-time support staff, strengthening team retention.

Indiana University Southeast

52%

Reduction in ticket resolution time

Led the team in improving ticket resolution strategies and support performance.

Indiana University Southeast

$150k+

More than $150,000 in added revenue

Led organizational efforts to expand services to multiple customers.

LightChange Technologies

Leadership in practice

Leading teams. Improving services. Delivering change.

From managing a support team to expanding customer services and guiding complex projects, my work connects people, operations, and business priorities.

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    CisCom Solutions

    Professional Services / Cloud & Security Project Engineer

    Project leadership & customer priorities

    Delivering change with operational care.

    I planned technology projects with scopes of work, work breakdown structures, and bills of materials. Business reviews with customers and account representatives addressed operational needs and revenue opportunities. I also mentored junior staff.

    Led complex migrations with no unplanned downtime, protecting customer operations during change.

    Project planning · Customer collaboration · Business continuity

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    LightChange Technologies

    Platform Engineer

    Service expansion & reliability

    Connecting technical capability to business value.

    I led efforts to expand DevOps services to multiple customers. I strengthened platform reliability and access controls, directed a migration to a more resilient environment, and simplified maintenance with Terraform.

    Expanded service offerings generated more than $150,000 in additional revenue.

    Service development · Platform reliability · Operational efficiency

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    Indiana University Southeast

    Manager, Support Services

    People & service delivery

    Building a stronger support operation.

    I managed Support Services, hired and mentored part-time staff, and led improvements to ticket resolution. I extended inventory capabilities and coordinated annual equipment sales to help fund equipment refreshes.

    Team efforts reduced ticket resolution time by 52%. Hiring and mentoring increased employee retention by 43%.

    Team development · Service improvement · Resource stewardship

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Technical perspective

Leadership informed by experience.

Technical depth helps me ask informed questions, guide teams and projects, and weigh service quality, continuity, and risk against organizational priorities.

IT service delivery

Understand the services people depend on, connect IT capabilities to organizational needs, and keep service quality central to operational decisions.

Microsoft Azure · Microsoft 365 · VMware

Business continuity

Plan migrations and recovery with business operations in mind. Use experience with resilient platforms to assess continuity needs and reduce disruption during change.

Kubernetes · HAProxy · Disaster recovery

Security & risk

Make informed decisions about access controls, least privilege, and network security, balancing practical protection with the needs of people using the services.

RBAC · Least privilege · Network security

Continuous improvement

Help teams work more effectively through standardization, repeatable processes, and automation that reduces manual effort and makes services easier to support.

Terraform · Ansible · PowerShell

Let's connect

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