Bart Bednar has joined ALCEA as an ALWIN Sales Engineer for North America. With more than 26 years of engineering and integration experience, he is based in Irving, Texas, and reports directly to Michael Woody, the company’s Technical Service and Customer Success Manager.
ALCEA offers a wide range of critical infrastructure security solutions and access management systems as the internal systems integrator partner of ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions. In 2023, the company introduced ALWIN security management software to customers in the United States. The robust software platform combines ASSA ABLOY security locks, ABLOYÒ PROTEC 2 padlocks and cylinders, and CLIQ access software with video management and intrusion detection to bring real-time visibility and access management to critical infrastructure customers.
Prior roles of Bednar
That’s the world Bednar has experience in prior to joining ALCEA. During the first 15 years of his career, while living in Minneapolis, Denver, Houston and Freehold, N.J, he was a field systems integrator at Checkpoint Security Systems, Inc. He assisted in the installation, service and project management of BA Security, Fire Alarm and Access Control, along with analog and IP cameras at retail giants like Apple/Uniqlo, Best Buy, Kohls, Target and many others.
Bednar set and certified integrators and OPTEX’s six regional sales managers for a unique client base
He served the last 11 years as a Field Application Manager at OPTEX America, a world-pioneering manufacturer of high-performance sensing technologies that include indoor and outdoor high-security applications. Throughout the U.S. and Canada, Bednar developed and certified integrators and OPTEX’s six regional sales managers for a unique client base.
ALWIN and CLIQ access software systems
Bednar supported over 50 product lines and worked with high-profile customers such as Amazon Web Services/Google, Con Edison and Duke Energy, as well as a handful of the most wealthiest people in the world with devices at their homes.
“I was also involved with the installations at every one of the Apple retail stores in Manhattan, and worked with various transportation agencies including Bay Area Rail Transit (BART) in the Bay area of northern California, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in the boroughs of New York City, and with the Chicago Transit Authority.” In his new position, Bednar is working with ALCEA sales personnel to promote and support the ALWIN and CLIQ access software systems.
Introduce ALWIN to North America
“My goal is to help increase sales and introduce ALWIN to North America. I want it to be as successful here as it is in France,” he remarked. ALWIN currently integrates or interfaces with over 100 pioneering technology manufacturers of access devices, readers and video systems. “ALWIN,” he continued, “is a different type of technology, but in the same market I have experience with the last few years in the area of critical infrastructure.”
In his free time, Bednar enjoys many activities. He was a ski instructor in Colorado when he met his wife, Diane, and they enjoy traveling to Europe with friends. A motorcyclist, he is a huge fan of the Green Bay Packers and New York Yankees and loves to spend time with “Jersey”, their three-year-old toy golden doodle who accompanies him on motorcycle rides around Texas.
