Thane Smith Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Architect & Manage security perimeter for network with 100’s of network ingress/egress points.• Modernize and optimize national healthcare network of over a million endpoints,50,000 network devices, and 1500+ circuits across 70+ carriers.• Architect and manage multiple national multi-cloud environments - IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.• Build and manage highly skilled team of network, cloud, and security professionals to oversee massive ultra-critical healthcare network.• Restructure complex carrier contracts resulting in higher SLA’s while saving over $10M in annual spend• Implement major programs to eliminate technical debt and end-of-life equipment while implementing scalable, optimized, future-capable networks.• Ongoing optimization of people, process, and technology to drive higher performance, value, and reliability while controlling costs.

San Jose, California, Us

• Provide technology vision, products, and strategy to customers, Sr. Management, internal product teams, trade organizations, analysts, and partners. • Work with Fortune 50 companies to transform their IT architecture and processes to deliver a Service Oriented set of products & services. Sometimes required a major change in mindset away from a rigid hardware-based architecture to a more agile services based product suite delivering to very specific service level objectives.• Developed hosted/public and private cloud architecture and solutions in use today by many Fortune 500 companies.

Phoenix, Az, Us

• Design, build, and deploy all aspects of customer datacenters & technologies – both dedicated and collocated. • Specific areas of focus are large-scale datacenter design, DC migration, technology optimization, and sustainability & alternative power. • Product manager for an outdoor deployable modular datacenter product and implementation.• Lead in the project to deploy a 3MW/$250M+ datacenter in NJ for a single customer footprint in under 5 days from whitespace turnover to full-load online. • Managed Network & Datacenter Design & Deployment for a 2M sq.ft./$2BN global Datacenter footprint.

San Jose, California, Us

• Responsible for all aspects of architecting, designing, and delivering data management systems and solutions for large enterprise accounts. • Included training and mentoring of IT Managers and Architects in the design of large-scale systems, datacenters, and infrastructures as well as deployment of specific technology designs.

Tempe, Az, Us

• Responsible for managing Computing Infrastructure Department. Supported datacenter environments that included tiered applications, optimized high-speed WANs, & complex processes. • Managed 24x7 team of Sr. Engineers dedicated to the delivery of high-performance, highly integrated, customer focused solution sets for an “always on” Public Utility. • Design, deployment, and management of ‘Arizona Flood Warning System’. A State of Arizona and Army Corps of Engineers sponsored project requiring a statewide network (WAN, Shortwave, & Satellite) to monitor real-time Arizona watershed data. • Program Manager & Engineering lead for SPATIA -A Global Satellite based power management/control system to manage & monitor power & water assets anywhere on the globe. Valued at over $35M at startup, the product & customer base was sold to Motorola Utility Systems Group.