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J. Zachary Bedford is an accomplished entrepreneur and corporate executive with 30 years of leadership and management experience in the engineering, construction and facilities management industry…working in the private sector, the government and in the armed services. Client Services Mr. Bedford is the founder of MacDonald-Bedford and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. He serves as the Principal-in-Charge for MacDonald-Bedford’s largest contracts and assists with community liaison and public relations. He has served as President of a project and construction management firm, Chief Operating Officer for an engineering design and environmental services firm and Vice-President of a geotechnical and environmental services firm. In a number of non-engineering organizations, Mr. Bedford served as the Director of Engineering, overseeing master planning, facilities management and contract management for outsourced services. Additionally, Mr. Bedford was Director of an Army engineering and environmental laboratory. Prior to the executive suite, Mr. Bedford independently managed project teams through complex programs and projects of all phases, from preliminary planning and programming through commissioning and start-up. These organizations varied in size from a handful up to several hundred and with budgets exceeding $100 million annually. These include a variety of facilities and infrastructure projects: buildings, roadways, airfields, flood control systems and coastal protection – most having major environmental considerations. For several years he served as the Chief of Project Management for the renovation of the Pentagon, a multi-billion dollar program. Mr. Bedford is known for his integrity, vision, drive, ability to deliver and a passion for developing people as well as the organization. Strongly skilled in problem solving, communications, functional integration and team building, he brings an excellent blend of human, conceptual and technical skills to the executive suite. Mr. Bedford has a Bachelor of Engineering from Vanderbilt University, a Masters of Engineering from the University of Florida and is an elected member of Tau Beta Pi, The National Engineering Honor Society. He became one of the earlier individuals (1992) to become certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Presently, he teaches Project Risk Management in the International Diplomas Program at UC Berkeley. Mr. Bedford is a retired Army Reserve Engineer Officer, a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and a former instructor of the Army’s Combined Arms Services Staff School – the Army’s management course for mid-career officers. Mr. Bedford can be contacted at zbedford@macdonaldbedford.com Biographies of Key Staff: |
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