Jean Logan is a highly experienced senior security systems consultant at Talisman. She has over twenty-five years diverse experience in systems engineering, software and hardware development; integration, testing, and Project Management; engineering and project leadership for computer systems, command and control systems, and sophisticated, large-scale physical security systems engineering. She was the primary contributor in the development of satellite simulation and test systems, military command centers, real-time intelligence decision support systems, and several physical security systems of national importance.
As senior security design engineer for security systems and applications, Ms. Logan has lead engineering and fulfillment teams and has supervised a group of multi-disciplined engineers and technicians in the development of state-of-the-art physical security systems that performs access control, intrusion detection and related functions. She was directly responsible for project performance and customer satisfaction of the contract to develop an open-architecture system for an intelligence customer, and for multiple system expansions and system maintenance. The security system includes all features found in high-end access control and alarm systems as well as multiple innovative features developed to support intelligence community requirements. Ms. Logan was the primary system design engineer and Project Manager for the security systems at customer Headquarters and external buildings in the northern Virginia area. The project included access control turnstiles and mantraps at building perimeters, access control and intrusion detection for interior areas designed to DCID 1/21 requirements, compound perimeter intrusion detection and video surveillance systems, visitor center automation, security operations center systems design and implementation. The perimeter intrusion detection system project included cost/benefit studies to select the sensor system at Headquarters facilities, which included both fence mounted sensors and microwave sensors for gates and other perimeter openings; video cameras and lighting; and integration of this equipment with automated alarm detection and display systems in the Security Operations Center. This system is currently operational. The effort included software and hardware design and development, and extensive integration of commercial-off-the-shelf equipment and software.
For another classified customer, Ms. Logan was responsible to install a multi-million dollar access control system for deployment within the intelligence community. She independently developed one of the first integrated digital badging systems that exceeded the capability of commercially available products for this critical application for positive credentialing for access. The project entailed key contributions from Ms. Logan in engineering design, integration and installation expertise including server and workstation software; field panel software and hardware; customized reader and alarm unit design and fabrication; large scale biometrics integration for hand geometry, fingerprint, eye retina and iris devices; integrated video badging systems; network communications design and implementation; fence mounted sensors and microwave systems; vehicle gate systems.
At the Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (an FFRDC), led the unique badge production effort consisting of a dedicated software system that integrates digital imagery, badging artwork and bulk printing of badges on HID I-class smart cards. These dual technology cards utilize legacy mag-stripe technology with emergent technology. A parallel effort includes interfacing data bases – that is the enterprise Human Resources SAP system with the Security management system and database through a specifically written interfacing information system used to migrate, manipulate, organize and off-load data to the upgraded security system.
She earned an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland.