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Brian Nordland

Director of Development,
Fortra

Company

Fortra

Bio

Brian Nordland is the Director of Development for IBM Power Development at Fortra. Brian has been a prominent speaker at events, webinars, and user groups, including COMMON and LUG for over a decade. He is a co-inventor on multiple patents and has authored technical publications in high availability and distributed computing. Recognized as an IBM Champion from 2022 to 2025, Brian holds a master’s degree in software engineering from the University of Minnesota.


Before joining Fortra, Brian spent six years at IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, where he served as the development architect for PowerHA and contributed to the development of IBM i virtual I/O and communication I/O device drivers.

Relationship to IBM

  • Business Partner

Location

United States (Wisconsin)
Speaking Fee? No

User Group Membership

  • COMMON, QUSER

Area of Expertise

  • Power
  • Storage

Preferred Advocacy Activities

  • Blogs, books, articles, podcasts
  • Event Speaker
  • Mentoring
  • Social Media
  • Technical or developer contributions
  • User Group Volunteer

IBM Products & Technologies

  • IBM i
  • Power Virtual Server
  • Storage DS8900F
  • Storage FlashSystem
  • PowerHA for i, Db2 Mirror for i

Non-IBM Products & Technologies

  • Software Development, C/C++, Java, Javascript, React

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