ben atkins

Career

6+ years in enterprise IT across healthcare and financial sectors.

I've spent the last six years doing IT support and sysadmin work at places where things can't break — a medical center and a multi-site financial firm. The work ranges from hands-on troubleshooting to building out onboarding systems to keeping auditors happy.

What I care about most: making systems work well, cutting out inefficiency, and communicating clearly with people who aren't technical. I'm currently looking for my next role — reach out if you've got something.

Experience

Service Desk Specialist → Senior Specialist

LBMC

2021 – 2025
  • Tier 1/2 support for a multi-site tax firm — 5 regional offices plus overseas contractors. Windows, O365, accounting software, access management, networking, hardware, AV systems. All routed through FreshService.
  • Built end-to-end onboarding workflows across all LBMC companies — AD provisioning, security groups, hardware imaging, license procurement, badge integration. Coordinated with HR and department leads.
  • SOC 2 audit coordination — collected and organized audit evidence, documented offboarding procedures (AD revocation, license reclamation, badge deactivation). 100% on-time delivery to external auditors.
  • Monthly license audits that identified unused or redundant subscriptions across the org — drove real cost savings while maintaining compliance.
  • Managed the service desk — distributed tickets, mentored team members on escalations, maintained <1 hour response SLA across all queues.
  • Built an IT onboarding program for international contractors — led orientation sessions on environment architecture, security protocols, auth procedures.

Field Project Technician

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

2018 – 2020
  • Field support across VUMC's main campus and clinics throughout Middle Tennessee — resolved end-user issues while keeping healthcare IT operations running.
  • Led post-migration O365 support — troubleshooting, documentation, and escalation management for clinical and administrative staff.
  • Deployed clinical workstations via PowerShell scripting for AD integration. Used Pegasus, Active Directory, and Tolero for asset tracking and KACE compliance.

Skills

Infrastructure

Active Directory / Entra Microsoft 365 / Azure Windows Server Networking

Operations

User Lifecycle Management IT Asset Management Ticketing Systems (FreshService) IT Compliance & Auditing

Technical

PowerShell / Automation Hardware Deployment & Imaging Email Security & Compliance Technical Documentation

Other

Front-End Web Development Applied AI for IT Ops SOC 2 Audit Coordination Cross-functional Communication

Education

Nashville Software School

Front-End Web Development

2018

Intensive full-time program — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, jQuery.

University of Tennessee

B.A. Psychology · Minor in Business Administration

2013
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