manager

Bennett V. Deese, Jr. (Bennie)

Email: ********@**************.***

Address:

City: Harrisburg

State: NC

Zip: 28075

Country: USA

Phone: 704-***-****

Skill Level: Any

Salary Range:

Primary Skills/Experience:

Customer-service focused manager with broad-based background in management of facility staffs in-sourced and out-sourced. Collaboration with all customers (Call Centers, Power Delivery, Telecommunications, Security, etc) to assure their facility needs are met.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte NC 1/2001 to 5/1985 (Engineering transfer program)

High School Dipolma from Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte NC 1/2001 to 9/2012

Job History / Details:

Career Focus

Customer-service focused manager with broad-based background in management of facility staffs in-sourced and out-sourced. Contract management, specification development and negotiation. Collaboration with all customers (Call Centers, Power Delivery, Telecommunications, Security, etc) to assure their facility needs are met.

Professional Experience

January 2011 to Current

Duke Energy 34 years Charlotte, NC

Manager of Facility Management II

Serve as Contract Administrator for outsourced Facility Management contract. Oversee contract performance, review and approve any contract revisions, partnered with sourcing during contract negotiations. Responsible for mentoring and managing regional facility managers that oversee maintenance and operation of Duke Energy Corporation's commercial buildings, including owned and leased facilities . Role also includes a focus on outsourced Energy Manager and Sourcing Manager positions to drive out best practices, and performance matrices identified with the top performers in the industry. Currently responsible for developing new opportunities with other business units to improve Duke's cost structure and service delivery for facilities management. Reviewing multiple shadow organizations that have performers carrying out facility related roles or functions that will transition to RES.Implement consistent processes between Carolinas and Midwest FM teams. Documented Facility assessment process which resulted in the development of a Real Estate Capital Investment Program.

March 2004 to December 2010

Manager of Facility Management

Oversee all non-generation owned and leased building and grounds activities for Duke Energy excluding the downtown Charlotte complex through an outsourced provider. This included all offices, warehouse, garages, substation and telecommunication sites from Durham NC to Anderson SC. During this time Duke Energy merged with Cinergy (Cincinnati Gas & Electric and Public Service of Indiana) and was assigned the task of managing the integration team for all facility management activities. This role was to assure that all facilities were evaluated/compared, O&M and Capital budgets established, best practices were evaluated and implemented. Served as manager for establishing an enterprise roofing/waterproofing and paving program, developed the bid specifications for hiring roofing consultants for Duke Energy's Carolinas and Midwest properties, partnered with sourcing for bidding and after inception trained a person to manage the program.

August 2000 to March 2004

Manager of Facility Management

Responsible for Management of in-house Carolinas facility management staff, consisting of project managers and maintenance staff. Contract manager for Duke Energy owned facility related contracts (janitorial, landscape, roofing etc). Developed bid specifications for the facility contracts, evaluated all bid proposals, assisted sourcing with negotiating the contracts and monitored performance.

August 1993 to July 2000

Tech. Spec II

Develop and implement Carolinas regional building maintenance program. All facilities were assessed, asset lists were gathered, preventative maintenance procedures were written for each asset according to the manufacturers specifications and maintenance schedules developed. Contract manager for Duke energy owned facility related contracts (janitorial, landscape etc). Developed bid specifications for the facility contracts, evaluated all bid proposals, assisted sourcing with negotiating the contracts and monitored performance. Project manager for facility related construction projects.These projects included paving, roofing, HVAC, plumbing repairs and replacements.

March 1988 to April 1978

Mechanical Designer

Design/specification of heating air conditioning, plumbing, fire protection systems for Duke Energy commercial buildings. Design / specification of heating, air conditioning, plumbing, fire protection systems in support of the three Carolinas nuclear plants.

Accomplishments

Organizational Development

Developed the commercial building maintenance program for all Duke Energy non-generating facilities.

Transitioned in-house maintenance staff to an outsourced workforce.

Facility Management Integration Manager for Duke Energy and Cinergy merger.

Established enterprise roofing/waterproofing program.

Developed remote site telecommunication generator maintenance and negotiated a vendor to provide cellular monitoring for each of 400 sites in the Carolinas and Midwest. This lowered response time and reduced wasted man hours responding.

Summary of Skills

EHS Training

Asbestos Class IV

OSHA 10 hour safety

Lead in Construction

Confined Space entrant and supervisor

Blood borne Pathogen

Anhydrous Ammonia

Workplace Ergonomics Safety

Fall Protection for Roofing Work and Inspections

Electrical Safety: Qualified Persons

Negotiating Skills

Supported and Non-Powered Suspended Scaffold User Training

Management Training

Analysis and Decision Making

Managing For Results

Conflict Management

Microsoft Office :Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook

Measuring Project Outsourcing Success

Authorized Contract Agent Training

Community Service

2009 - 2010

Chairperson - church finance committee, at the beginning of the term the church was $50k behind on a $3million dollar budget. At the end of the year the budget was $30k ahead. Regular communications were established and a very successful pledge campaign was held.

2005 - 2006

Chairperson of Building Committee -Completed a $2 million dollar office and classroom addition to church

2000 - 2004

Anderson County Civic Center Board of Directors-Board Member-Involved in Civic Center relations with Anderson County SC government officials.

1994 - 2002

Wren Youth Association Board of Directors-Held positions of Association President, Baseball Director, Baseball Coach, Basketball Coach and Umpire at Wren Youth association serving 700 kids in baseball, football, basketball

Education

Lees Mcrae Jr. College Banner Elk, NC

attended 1977,

Central Piedmont Community College Charlotte, NC

Engineering transfer program

Attended 1977 through 1985.

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