LOGAN SMITH
Atlanta
Summary
Highly motivated jack of all trades architect with solid history of managing teams and driving operational success. Skilled in implementing strategic initiatives that enhance productivity and efficiency. Strong background in network engineering and cloud architecture, with a passion for security. Demonstrated ability in problem-solving and decision-making.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
MANAGER OF SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE
PT Solutions
04.2023 - Current
- Ground up creation of Solutions Architecture team
- Designed, managed, and fully implemented migration from on-prem (vmware) to Azure from scratch, leveraging landing zone architecture
- Designed and implemented custom public cloud security policies to align with PCI, HIPAA, and NIST 800-53compliance needs
- Leveraged multi-region public cloud ideology to implement HA aligning with DR strategies and business continuity needs
- Responsible for budgetary analysis for Azure migration, along with resource tagging and budget alerts for internal cost centers.
- Duties include those of principle architect for all network, cloud, and security related items including reference architecture documentation, workflows, KB's etc.
- Worked to design network topology, end user workflow, and security controls to assist with security and compliance needs
- Lead team to implement and integrate with new vendors and products, saving company countless dollars while increasing scalability and capabilities
- Implemented complex workflows for vendor selection and architectural design update/creations
- Selected, managed, and implemented new vendors and products for SD-WAN, MDM, SASE, NAC, Backup/Recovery, and Circuit Aggregation
- Created proven M&A runbook allowing for hyper growth
- Designed, managed, and implemented a full network refresh with newly selected network equipment
- Worked closely with security team to create workflow around remediating ongoing vulnerabilities
- Managed full RFP process for vendor/product selection
- Assisted with implementation of AGILE project management across IT team
- Worked with business leaders within and outside of IT to assist with identifying and filling gaps
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
Corporate Imaging Concepts
01.2023 - 04.2023
- Analyzed network security and current infrastructure to assess areas in need of improvement and develop solutions
- Reviewed current vendors to verify integrity of spend and cut costs
- Managed full RFP process for current high-cost vendors
- Migrated company away from critical EOL devices while pursuing best practices during network rebuild
- Tested network's performance and created strategies to maintain integrity of overall infrastructure
- Worked closely with management teams to plan, develop, coordinate and execute technical strategies aligned to company's vision, mission and purpose
- Worked in team-driven environments and communicated effectively with stakeholders
- Coordinated with management teams to plan, develop, align and execute strategies that would meet company's vision, mission and purpose
- Oversaw development and implementation of improvements to support and network operations
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
PT SOLUTIONS
08.2021 - 01.2023
- Design, oversee, and maintain internal infrastructure in a corporate environment with over 400 physical locations and 4000 end users
- Bring sweeping change to the organization via a series of projects including planning and implementing on-prem datacenter migration, MDM, MSP, MSSP, and ITSM System
- Work closely with business leaders to plan, develop, coordinate and execute technical strategies aligned to practice's vision, mission and purpose
- Oversee development and implementation of improvements to support and network operations
- Built and lead a team of analysts and engineers to implement processes for continued support of end users and locations
- Work with security team to implement proper network segmentation, monitoring, and logging
- Align server infrastructure with NIST SP 800-123 requirements
- Work in team-driven environment and communicate effectively with stakeholders
- Review and refine standing processes to drastically improve scalability via automation
- Plan, design, and implement hybrid cloud strategy leveraging Microsoft Azure
- Provide SOW and implement Azure Virtual Desktop for hospital partners
- Work with CIO to adopt full cloud strategy
- Implement quarterly KPIs for team to drive high-performance
- Implement high availability strategy on critical network equipment via automatic failover and redundant hardware
- Provide quarterly updates to board on infrastructure status highlighting DR and BCP plans, improvements in automation, and increased actionable logging
- Create strategic budget aligned with business goals
- Test network's performance and created strategies to maintain integrity of overall infrastructure
- Provide onboarding and mentoring of newly hired employees, offering positive reinforcement
NETWORK ANALYST
SAFE SYSTEMS
05.2018 - 08.2021
- Worked in an MSP environment whose clientele was heavily regulated by the financial sector
- Troubleshot and maintained servers, workstations, networking devices and infrastructure across more than 300 clients
- Deep experience with industry-leading vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper, VMware, and Rukus
- Appointed as lead engineer for multiple projects centered around hardware refreshes and upgrades
- Implemented group policy for complex OU-divided sites along with enjoying high level troubleshooting of various issues
- Configured and maintained QoS, VOIP, DHCP, DNS, BGP, EIGRP, and more for clients based off need
- Excelled in a Network Operations Center with more than 60 engineers
- Scripted a series of scalable solutions for clients
Education
B.S - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
05-2020
Skills
- Routing/Switching
- Network Design
- Microsoft Azure/M365
- Public Cloud Design
- Virtualization (Vmware, Hyper-V)
- Windows Domain Services
- Network Security
- Windows/Linux/Mac OS
- Process Improvement
- Positive Culture Creation
- Service Delivery
Certification
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- Silver Peak SDWAN Professional (SPSP)
Accomplishments
- Participated in a series of webinars focused around addressing current information security challenges.
- Wrote a series of blog posts of understanding the Microsoft licensing.
- Migrated entire physical infrastructure to a new datacenter in less than a week with no downtime.
Timeline
MANAGER OF SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE
PT Solutions
04.2023 - Current
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
Corporate Imaging Concepts
01.2023 - 04.2023
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER
PT SOLUTIONS
08.2021 - 01.2023
NETWORK ANALYST
SAFE SYSTEMS
05.2018 - 08.2021
B.S - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
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