Currently, at Beacon Services, Mr. Vandivort is the Director of Business Development and specializes in proposal writing and project management. In addition, Mr. Vandivort works with multiple units at Fort Bliss addressing their technology and service needs. Mr. Vandivort is active in the local Greater Chamber of Commerce and maintains strong ties to the entrepreneurial sector of the El Paso community.
Prior to Beacon Services, Mr. Vandivort was the director of both the UTEP CONNECT and E-CORP programs housed within the Institute for Policy and Economic Development (IPED) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) for three years. Both CONNECT and E-Corps are focused on entrepreneurial development and fast-growth start-ups that can add a lift to the local economic development efforts of the El Paso community. During the three years as director, Mr. Vandivort and those under his supervision assisted over 100 local companies in varying capacities and helped two local start-ups raise over one million dollars in capital.
In addition, Mr. Vandivort has worked on several studies involving the El Paso area including the 2005 Upper Rio Grande Workforce Development Board Industry Cluster Analysis, where he served as a coordinator for industry outreach panels and a technology commercialization study for a major defense contractor in 2006, where he was a lead researcher and analyst.