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LOGAN FOSTER

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, MANAGER, DEVELOPER

25+ years building and running systems — from bare-metal servers and SQL internals to production-scale web platforms and the teams behind them.

DRAWN BY: L. FOSTER SCALE: 1:1 SHEET: 1 OF 1 REV: 2026.07
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Summary of Skills

25+ years managing software engineers, DBAs, and IT/network admins.

Team Leadership Mentorship QA & Process Design Strategic Planning

LANGUAGES & FRAMEWORKS

Multi-disciplined across web, server, networking and game programming.

PHP JavaScript Python React Vue Node.js ASP/.NET Perl Bash C# C++

DATABASES

Full-cycle SQL administration, from installation and configuration through design and performance tuning.

Schema Design Query Optimization Stored Procedures Views Replication / Failover Performance Tuning

LINUX & WINDOWS ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE

LAMP-focused server administration with a security-first lens.

Linux/Windows Admin High Availability Intrusion Detection DDoS Protection Pen Testing Log Analysis & Response Automated Deployment/Config VMware Hyper-V

AUTOMATION & CI/CD

Pipelines that enforce standards and catch problems early.

Pipeline Architecture Automated Testing Standards Compliance Process Docs

COMPLIANCE & STANDARDS

Working knowledge across major regulatory and security frameworks.

HIPAA GDPR SOX SOC 2 CCPA PCI DSS OWASP

HARDWARE & NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURE

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Data Center Deployment/Management AWS Network Admin IT Management Nagios/Centreon/ELK

GAME DEVELOPMENT

Real-time graphics and engine work across web and native platforms.

OpenGL WebGL Three.js Unreal Unity

MEDIA CREATION & EDITING

Writing Photoshop batch jobs since pre-Y2K.

Photoshop/Gimp/Illustrator Premiere, Davinci Ableton Live, Audacity
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LEGACY SKILLS

Earlier-era technologies from past roles, kept here for reference as I remember them.

ColdFusion Classic ASP ActionScript 3 BASIC Pascal
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Professional Experience

Owner / Consultant — Logan Media JUN 2002 – PRESENT
  • Served as primary framework and database architect for all client projects.
  • Managed the creation of hundreds of applications and websites serving millions of users.
  • Collaborated with outside consultants on projects spanning numerous platforms and frameworks.
  • Planned, organized, and coordinated day-to-day functioning of the company.
  • Owned all client interaction, including sales, budgeting, billing, and support.
  • Notable clients included:
    • Threat Assessment Group — Built a CMS to administer multiple websites and manage mailing lists for tens of thousands of subscribers, including tools to create and send mass newsletters from one central location.
    • American Fish & Seafood — Built their first e-commerce site, on an IIS platform, for direct-to-consumer and business sales.
    • Entrepreneur Magazine — Built "Ask Entrepreneur," a LAMP-based editing/Q&A system syncing with an ASP.NET/SQL database, then "Women's Entrepreneur" — a centrally administered network of templated, SEO'd blogs — which became the basis for the Entrepreneur Blog Network.
Director of Engineering — Admediary AUG 2021 – DEC 2023
  • Managed a remote engineering team of 9 developers and 1 QA manager.
  • Led and contributed to the development of:
    • Search arbitrage dashboard integrating APIs from TikTok, Facebook, Taboola, Outbrain and others with internal sales/lead data, providing up-to-the-minute reporting on all product performance metrics, and implementing an interface/rules system enabling the sales team to define automation of campaign management to optimize profit and shut down underperforming products.
    • Internal dashboard for site network administration, lead tracking, and custom reporting across all business data, including form submissions, API-derived metrics, and vendor integrations. Maintained legacy system while developing a modern React-based interface with advanced reporting, visualizations, and controls to allow business and sales teams to optimize operations.
    • Implemented QA processes and procedures, collaborating with QA manager to maximize efficiency and automate testing across platforms. Enforced strict documentation standards and postmortem review process with QA and engineering.
    • Automation tools for ensuring site uptime by monitoring standards compliance, RBL removals, system maintenance; alerting key stakeholders when issues arise.
  • Database administration: optimizing queries, designing schemas, managing MS SQL environment, stored procedures, and views.
  • Oversaw AWS webservers and SQL database servers, including failover/HA configurations, monitoring, and performance tuning.
  • Facilitated strategic planning and communication between tech team, CTO, and other company departments, ensuring realistic expectations and clear roadmaps.
Control Panel Solutions, Inc. APR 2012 – DEC 2019
General Manager JUL 2017 – DEC 2019

(continued/ensured prior responsibilities)

  • Assumed management of day-to-day operations of the US office, including customer service, payroll, HR, and operations, supervising 20+ employees and three managers.
  • Strategic planning for business operations with ownership and partner companies; oversaw successful company handoff to new ownership.
Tech Manager JUL 2014 – JUL 2017

(continued/ensured prior responsibilities)

  • Managed/Mentored development and IT staff in multi-language programming, DBA work, server management, and automation scripting focusing on creative solutions, process improvement, and institutional knowledge retention.
  • Developed a PHP/MySQL-based alert automation system consolidating monitoring across servers, network devices, and applications; implemented a dynamic knowledge base to classify, prioritize, and auto-resolve routine alerts, reducing false positives and protecting team bandwidth while ensuring 24/7 uptime and adherence to strict operational standards.
  • Maintained and optimized LAMP servers on bare-metal and VPS/Containerized CentOS platforms; implemented intrusion detection, DDoS protection, automated monitoring/alerting, and high-performance tuning.
  • Managed CI/CD pipelines, from Linux server setup through Jenkins configuration, including scripting for code validation, standards compliance, and automated testing.
  • Deployed and maintained all equipment on-site and at an off-site data center, training IT staff to ensure high availability and redundancy.
Lead Programmer APR 2012 – JUL 2014
  • Developed and maintained public-facing e-commerce and customer support websites, internal productivity tools, and custom plugins.
  • Managed remote developers; provided code review and guidance for PHP, MySQL, JS, Perl, and Bash.
  • Consolidated code repositories and implemented coding best practices to improve team efficiency.
Director of Programming — Victory Point Games JUN 2011 – JUL 2014
  • Led development of five published cross-platform mobile games and one app; created internal management tools for company operations.
  • Managed and mentored a junior developer through 4 completed projects.
  • Implemented QA pipeline and automated deployment process to improve development time.
Senior Developer & Technical Consultant — Earthbound Media Group AUG 2002 – JUL 2006
  • Designed, built, and maintained a PHP/MySQL-based admin tool to manage pages, blog, and media content for the company's Flash/ActionScript website, including an alternate HTML frontend for visitors without Flash installed.
  • Configured and managed LAMP and Windows web servers for the company and its clients.
  • Served as the company's tech liaison, working directly with clients to scope technical solutions and turn them into database-driven websites, software, and media, including:
    • USC School of Medicine — Built their first HIPAA-compliance tracking and administration tool, with custom reporting.
    • Columbia University, Teachers College — Built a Variable Data Publishing system to automate their marketing data-mining process and cut down on redundant print costs.
    • UCLA Arts & Architecture — Built their first backend-driven website to manage event and ticketing information.
    • University of Miami — Built a CMS to organize and validate content and multimedia for the institution's training and marketing CD/DVD-ROMs.
    • Global Protection Corp — Built a VDP database-driven website and admin tool that took user-submitted artwork and generated custom print orders sent directly to the printer, with contest voting and anti-cheating checks, as well as a separate B2B e-commerce site for online purchasing and fulfillment.
  • Built and managed the company's small development team.
Webmaster — The Wet Seal, Inc JUN 2001 – JUL 2002
  • Performed daily maintenance of 8 corporate e-commerce websites serving thousands of users per month.
  • Created a complete intranet application, combining accounting, inventory, and sales functions.
  • Pulled and reviewed website analytics and logs to catch and fix technical issues like broken links and errors, then distributed findings to sales and other teams to inform promotions and identify where customers were dropping off.
Edwards Theatres Circuit MAR 1998 – JUN 2001
Webmaster JAN 2000 – JUN 2001
  • Built the company's first dynamic website, replacing a static page of theater contact info with database-driven showtimes and an admin tool for easy, ongoing updates.
Tech Support Lead MAR 1998 – JAN 2000
  • Led the tech support team, serving as the front line for technical issues across the company.
  • Supported and maintained the internal and remote Windows-based network connecting 90+ theaters across Southern California.
  • Planned and wrote unattended installation scripts for company-wide rollouts of new corporate and theater computers, with all necessary settings and software preconfigured and ready to go.
  • Built and maintained an internal reporting site so theaters could submit daily sales figures remotely and corporate could review and reconcile them.
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Education

B.S., Visual & Game Programming

The Art Institute of California — Orange County, Santa Ana, CA

JUL 2011