Rick Smothermon

At UC Health, I design, configure, deploy, and resolve issues across four hospital campuses and more than 100 private provider locations. I support data center design while documenting, monitoring, and reporting on infrastructure serving over 14,000 employees.

Previously, at the City of Dayton, I led infrastructure for wired and wireless networks, fiber, VoIP, two data centers, and 44 buildings. I delivered a complete network overhaul, municipal Wi-Fi implementation and refresh, core switching refresh, network automation scripts, and Splunk monitoring dashboards.

My work spans secure network segmentation, information security collaboration, vulnerability analysis, vendor onboarding, contracts, budgets, and project leadership. I work with Extreme Networks SPB Fabric, Palo Alto, Check Point, Avaya, Nortel, Cisco, and a broad range of routing, switching, and data center technologies.

Earlier, I supported DoD server assets across 17 global data centers and developed server platforms, manufacturing processes, deployment systems, and customer solutions for Systemax Manufacturing and WYLE Systems/Arrow Electronics. I bring decades of experience connecting engineering, manufacturing, sales, and support teams around practical technology outcomes.