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How We Work — Landmark Technologies

Discover. Design. Deliver.
— and review the work.

Landmark engagements run on a deliberate operating rhythm.
Strategic Partnership Reviews keep the relationship grounded and the roadmap aligned with what the customer can actually plan for.

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The operating rhythm

Four named phases.

The first three move a project from scope to operations.
The fourth keeps the work accountable after delivery.
Each phase has a defined input, output, and participant on both sides.

Phase 01

Discover

The scoping phase. The operator runs a working session with the customer — in person or virtual — to map current state, define the problem, and clarify constraints (budget, timeline, regulatory, technology).

What's produced

A Discover summary naming the problem, the constraints, the stakeholders, and the questions Design has to answer.

Example

Scoping a network core cutover for a Southern California municipality required mapping the existing core dependencies, the systems that would ride through the cut, and a maintenance window coordinated with the city's public safety department before any design decision.

Phase 02

Design

Discover translates into a buildable architecture. Manufacturer-authorized specialists join here — Cisco CCIE-tier engineers, Hitachi-certified storage architects, Cradlepoint cellular edge engineers — matched to the stack.

What's produced

An SOP — the standard operating procedure for the engagement — including architecture, bill of materials, deployment phasing, the runbook the engineering team executes, and a roadmap that runs as far into the future as the customer can plan — typically through the end of the current fiscal year or the start of the next. The roadmap refreshes each Strategic Partnership Review.

Example

Designing the same cutover meant selecting the Catalyst 9500 pair, sequencing the cut against the agreed public-safety maintenance window, and writing the SOP — runbook and failback procedure — that the engineering team would execute step-by-step.

Phase 03

Deliver

Design moves into production. Landmark coordinates manufacturer-authorized specialists for technical work, contracted install partners for structured cabling, rack-and-stack, and ceiling-mount work, and finish-work subcontractors for IT closeout on remodels and new construction. The operator owns every handoff.

What's produced

A working environment, as-built documentation, and a validated cutover.

Example

A network core cutover delivered for a Southern California municipality as a professional-services engagement — assessment, planning, documentation, configuration execution, and three days of post-cutover monitoring — performed by a CCIE- and CCNA-certified engineering team.

Phase 04 — Strategic Partnership Reviews

Delivery doesn't end the engagement.

Landmark runs quarterly Strategic Partnership Reviews with every customer — recurring 90-day sessions that keep the operating relationship grounded in measurable outcomes and the roadmap aligned with the customer's planning horizon.

Standing agenda

  • 01Review outcomes since the last SPR — what shipped, what worked, what didn't.
  • 02Identify operations-level concerns surfacing in the infrastructure.
  • 03Set objectives for the next 90 days — measurable landmarks the customer is willing to be held to.
  • 04Refresh the roadmap against the customer's current planning horizon (typically running to the end of the fiscal year).

Communication audit

Each engagement also runs a recurring communication audit — a customer-by-customer check on whether Landmark is meeting that customer's specific expectations for cadence, depth, and decision flow. 

Different customers want different things. The audit names what each customer expects and tracks how Landmark is doing against it.

SPRs produce decisions, not status updates.
Two Southern California municipalities currently operate on this cadence.

The operator-led resource model

Engineering capacity matches the stack, not the bench.

Landmark is operator-led. Engineering capacity is brought in per engagement from a network of senior specialists — Cisco CCIEs, Hitachi-certified storage architects, Cisco Networking Black Belt-certified specialists, and other manufacturer-authorized resources matched to the customer's stack. The engagement network holds 11 Cisco Networking Black Belt certifications. Specialists are not carried as fixed-cost overhead.

  • The operator scopes and owns every engagement directly.

    Jon Garcia is in the Discover session, the Design review, and the Deliver handoffs.
    There is no account manager between the customer and the operator.

  • Engineering depth matches the stack, not the bench.

    A Cisco-heavy environment draws Cisco CCIE-tier engineers. A Hitachi storage refresh draws Hitachi-certified architects. The bench composition changes with the engagement.

  • Transactional resellers use the same resource model with more overhead.

    They layer in sales-rep overhead and procurement markup. Landmark removes the layer.

The named vendor portfolio on this site is representative, not exhaustive. Additional manufacturers — HP servers and storage among others — sourced on request.

Four operating principles

Commitments customers can hold us to.

Responsive

A customer message gets a response inside a business day. A scoping question gets a working answer inside a week.

Default to action

When the next step is clear, Landmark moves. Customers don't lose weeks to consensus theater.

Open communication

Decisions surface before they're made. Customers see the tradeoffs.

Fair pricing

Transparent, defensible, and honored against contracted-price limits in government engagements. Disclosure goes as far as manufacturer and distributor contracts allow.

On time, on budget, on record

Every Landmark engagement to date has been delivered on time and on budget. In cases where manufacturer backorders or long-lead-time items have affected scheduling, no material impact has been realized on any project — confirmed customer-by-customer in Strategic Partnership Reviews. The project register is the source.

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