Operations Support Partners, LLC is a seasoned team of security and facilities professionals that bring a broad range of experience and a wealth of subject matter expertise to each client interaction. Our wide range of experience runs the gamut of numerous industries, with a focus on higher education. Our accomplished team is adept at equipping our clients with the knowledge, and impactful solutions needed to tackle the complex demands of today’s security and facilities management environments.
Jeff Bednarz is the managing principal and founding member of
Operations Support Partners, LLC (OSP). With a diversified expertise in security and facilities management which includes organizational improvement, long-range institutional planning, financial management, contract administration, staff resource management, construction management, and strategic forecasting. With 25 years in public safety and facilities management, he has held leadership roles in the areas of public safety, facilities operations, security, and dining services management. Jeff has considerable expertise with maintaining and executing regulatory compliance mandates at the local, state, and federal level, including
OSHA,
MassDEP, and the
EPA. Well-versed in Clery Act compliance, Title IV accreditation, and NECHE Standard 7 requirements for institutional resources, he has a wealth of knowledge and experience expanding emergency operations plans. Jeff had a leadership role in developing and managing a climate within public safety that embraced service, equity, diversity, inclusion, and intercultural competencies.
Examples of Jeff’s leadership include:
- Over 15 years of successful coaching and engaging campus leadership stakeholders on the complex demands of the security and facilities environments, with a focus on organizational development, culture change, communications, and training.
- Development of programming to aid in the negotiation of comprehensive contracts in security, facilities, construction, enterprise-class video management, and access control in higher education.
- Vetting of human resources policies and procedures to delineate personnel responsibilities and position specifications.
- Management and implementation of CMMS, incident management, and computer aided dispatch systems that improved efficiencies, and reduced overhead expenses.
- Development and implementation of programming to aid in the reorganization of in-house and outsourced campus services to other performance-based service models in security, environmental services, food service, and integrated facilities management.
- Implementation of large-scale enterprise-class video management platforms.
- Implementation of large-scale high-performance access control platforms, along with commercial key control platforms.
- Reimagining of an existing learning spaces into modern programming spaces, with a 77% increase in overall activity compared to prior years
- Effective management of the construction of a state-of-the-art health sciences center and many mixed-use spaces.
Jeff’s experience includes:
- Over 15 years as a higher education manager and administrator
- Deputy Chief of Campus Police in a higher education space
- Campus Services Systems Administrator and Chief Safety Officer
- Executive in auxiliary services
- Director of Facilities for multiple campuses
