Logan Dirks

• Direct the full scope of enterprise IT operations across five U.S. manufacturing facilities, setting strategic direction for a multi-disciplinary IT team and managing operational and capital budgets totaling millions in annual technology investment, ensuring maximum ROI, zero-downtime continuity, and infrastructure that scales with an 800+ employee, distributed manufacturing environment.


• Serve as Security Expert, architecting and owning the company's enterprise security program end-to-end, encompassing SIEM, EDR, MDR, vulnerability management, identity governance, Zero Trust initiatives, and incident response, significantly reducing the organization's attack surface and positioning the business for long-term cyber resilience in an increasingly threat-saturated landscape.


• Conceive and execute enterprise-wide infrastructure transformation initiatives that have fundamentally modernized the organization's technology foundation, including complete network redesign and segmentation, cloud migration strategies, authentication modernization, data center and server room overhauls, and unified endpoint management, delivering measurable gains in uptime, security posture, and operational agility.


• Own enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery strategy, ensuring the organization can sustain critical operations through any disruption scenario. Lead vendor risk assessments, negotiate enterprise technology contracts, and govern third-party relationships to protect organizational interests and drive cost efficiency without compromising capability or security.


• Champion the modernization of IT Service Management across the enterprise, implementing structured ITSM frameworks, automation pipelines, SLA governance, and performance analytics that have transformed IT from a reactive support function into a proactive, business-enabling discipline with measurable accountability at every level.


• Serve as a trusted technology advisor to the executive team and board-level stakeholders, translating complex cybersecurity risks and infrastructure challenges into clear business-impact narratives that drive informed decision-making, secure capital investment, and ensure IT strategy is tightly coupled with long-term organizational growth and competitive positioning.

• Performed enterprise incident response, digital forensics, threat hunting, malware analysis, and vulnerability management as a Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst across multiple Koch business entities.


• Utilized Splunk SIEM, CrowdStrike EDR, and advanced detection methodologies to investigate and remediate security events.


• Conducted internal penetration testing aligned with OWASP standards and leveraged Linux-based security frameworks to identify and mitigate application and infrastructure vulnerabilities.


• Contributed to enterprise-wide security posture improvements across Koch business entities, building the threat detection and response depth that underpins later program-level security ownership.

• Provided technical support services to IT administrators across client environments, developing proficiency in network troubleshooting, imaging systems, and infrastructure diagnostics.


• Resolved complex hardware, software, and connectivity issues with a focus on minimizing operational disruption, building the diagnostic depth and infrastructure judgment that informs enterprise-scale leadership.

• Performed precision measurement and tooling validation using FARO Arms and FARO Vantage Laser Trackers.


• Conducted advanced model comparisons and certification processes utilizing Verisurf X7 and X8 software to ensure manufacturing accuracy and compliance.

Completed ongoing professional development through Cisco networking education programs, developing advanced knowledge of cloud-managed networking architecture and applying that learning directly within enterprise environments.