About
I'm Benjamin Davidson, an IT leader and software builder based in Terrace, BC, with twenty years spanning development, systems administration, business intelligence, and management.
What I do
- Run technology services: strategy, infrastructure, security, M365, budgets, procurement
- Build software: internal tools, data pipelines and warehouses, GIS and mapping apps, web apps
- Lead through automation: onboarding/offboarding workflows, HRIS, reporting people actually read
Background
- IT Director, Emil Anderson Group - built an internal technology department, launched a company intranet with 80%+ weekly readership, automated onboarding across six teams, launched an HRIS, built a data warehouse, kept cyberinsurance through MFA/DR/external review
- IT & Business Systems, Nechako Group - bid writing on $100M+ wins, safety/quality tooling, BI for finance and fleet, custom desktop/mobile GIS and video apps across six remote sites
- Earlier: information systems for Nisga'a Lisims Government, web and systems work, education at BCIT (honours) and CMTN
Full detail: resume.thebend.ca
Work
- Company intranet & HRIS - internal platforms serving hundreds of staff: automated onboarding, recruitment, analytics over 25 years of ERP history.
- GIS & field apps - work reporting, mapping, road/weather monitoring with IoT hardware and video processing across remote sites.
- Technology department - built an internal team that cut ticket volume and first-response time ~70% at net savings
- Data & infrastructure - data warehouse, MDM rollout, HQ infrastructure migration in a 3-hour window
Sites I run
Legion Trivia - eleven nights of slides, scoring, and multimedia questions. Pick a night and play. 
Photography - nightlife, sports, people, sights, familySpeaking & video
- AI for All - generative-AI talk for the Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce (via Myriad Technologies)
Lifting, 2013-2016
Powerlifting is behind me now, but the numbers were: 565 lbs deadlift, 405 lbs squat, 250 lbs bench, 185 lbs overhead press. Full story: first meet, best lifts.
