Ted Bender Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, Ca, Us

United States

• Lead developer, trainer, and SME for new opportunities with Sales & estimating teams to provide them with experienced knowledge of how to review, compile, and execute upon high value opportunities with delivery teams. Win rates grew from 25% to 40% within the first year of execution on the Pre/Post sales workflows. • Championed the implementation of a new vertical within IES providing managed professional services utilizing the ServiceNow platform. Through this program, I identified the need to leverage the ServiceNow platform within the Data Center space and created a newly adopted initiative-taking monitoring platform partnering the ServiceNow platform with other monitoring systems to manage issues well in advance prior to client interaction/involvement. As a result, the organization saw an increase in revenue of $40k through the first quarter of deployment. • Chair for the development of new contract structure for our managed professional services working with our chief legal counsel on the development of contracts to include increased margins, response times, and reduction in resolution of issues culminating in 40% margin rates over the course of a 5-year contract period which system expansions were aligned through new business development outside of the service contacts in place.

Greater Sacramento

• Function as the enterprise lead (COO) for clients (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon) to drive projects to success aligning with the expectations of the client. • Responsible for the development and maturation of the datacenter security playbook defining processes, procedures, implementation methodologies and best practices for universal application in the security aspects of constructing mega datacenters and colocation facilities.• Owner of a P&L program for datacenter and Colo facility buildouts globally valued at $22 million dollars to the organization. The program aligned client teams directly with design/application engineering teams, general contractors, and delivery personnel to ensure consistent and successful execution. • Successfully oversaw on time and in budget completion of multiple datacenters and colocation facilities with turnaround times increased from on-time to 6 weeks and 13 weeks ahead of schedule.

Sacramento, California, United States

• Served as the regional Project Lead for multiple projects which were overdue by twenty-four (24) months. Developed, built, and managed vendor and contractor relationships daily to ensure best practices and service quality to Health Net.• Developed and implemented the Emergency Response Team (ERT) to provide necessary safety resources for associates throughout the enterprise. Along with the ERT, responsible for the development and implementation of the enterprise security group’s Five Risk Ranking structure to streamline and provide consistency for both Information Technology and Physical Security rankings of risk throughout the enterprise.• Acted as primary point of contact and security project lead for numerous projects: decommissioning of locations, designing, implementing, and overseeing the installation of security access control & video management systems (VMS); new construction projects which included relocation of Health Net associates; and the upgrading of the physical security department software and applications utilized by the Centene Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) West.• Development and implementation of the Business Continuity Plan for the enterprise, along with implementation of the Crisis Response Action plan and emergency communication software.• Designed, developed, and implemented the asset classification process for the enterprise security group. This process allows for the proper inventory, catalog, and destruction of data bearing devices within the enterprise.

Oakland/San Francisco, California

● Executed intelligence analyses on emergency plans and operational concepts for City of Oakland, Contra Costa & Alameda counties presenting strategic recommendations to city/county officials.● Lead development of Domain Awareness Center (DAC) at Fire Station 1 in Oakland, seamlessly merging land-based security operations with maritime endeavors, fortifying San Francisco Bay Area's critical infrastructure's defenses.● Championed intelligence-driven policy creation and procedural guidelines for Oakland's Fire and Police Departments' Terrorism Liaison Officer Program.

Dubai, Untied Arab Emirates

● Composed comprehensive documentation including audit findings, risk and vulnerability analysis, threat evaluations, risk assessments, risk registers, and contingency strategies to leadership of the Government of Dubai.● Formulated conceptual designs for advanced physical security systems and spearheaded security risk assessments for multi-billion-dollar initiatives under auspices of the Government of Dubai.● Innovated RFP process grounded in treatment solutions sourced from security risk assessments; then delivered insightful presentations and briefings to executive echelons and eminent officials.

Information Technology Project Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba)/Marketing