Intelligent Design Solutions

With hundreds of clients served across the world, SBS provides proven, effective solutions for designing the world’s critical infrastructure.

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About SBS

SBS intelligent design solutions help utility and telecom organizations leverage the power of their investments in utility networks, GIS, CAD, and enterprise systems. The company has helped hundreds of utility, telecommunications, and AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) firms achieve real benefits with dramatic increases in productivity. With offices in Denver, Colorado and Melbourne, Australia, SBS provides expert-level consulting skills and extensive experience in working with the unique engineering aspects of critical, networked infrastructure.

Intelligent design solutions involve much more than the outstanding visual graphics we deliver to our clients. SBS solutions create real-world models, often referred to as digital twins, to power the critical applications that manage interconnected network grids. Our intelligent designs enable better, safer construction and optimized asset operations. SBS also provides product-level, configurable integration to enterprise systems that empowers our clients to achieve optimal returns on the billions of dollars of infrastructure assets they manage.

Our Team

SBS has been offering first class solutions to our customers all over the world since 2002.

Dennis Beck

Chief Executive Officer

Dennis Beck is a co-founder of SBS. He has more than thirty-five years of experience in engineering design, geospatial systems implementation, software systems consultancy, business analysis, and systems engineering. He specializes in the use of advanced technologies to solve the challenges of managing critical infrastructure information.

Al Eliasen

President

Al Eliasen has more than 30 years of experience working in various roles of technically focused companies. As President of SBS, Al provides direction and guidance for all of our groups. From delivery to customer relationships, technical project operations to development and project management teams, Al coordinates and drives our strategic direction.

Andrew Street

Vice President of Technology

Andy Street, a founding partner of SBS, has more than thirty years of experience in the GIS marketplace. Andy is recognized throughout the GIS industry as one of the most experienced implementers and integrators of object-oriented GIS technologies for the management of critical infrastructure in the utility, telecommunications, and government market segments.

Ben Lord

Chief Financial Officer

Ben Lord joined SBS as Director of Finance and Human Resources in August 2009. He manages the finance, accounting, and human resources departments.

Serguei Sokolov

Chief Technology Officer

Serguei is an Enterprise Architect and subject matter expert for Utilities. He supports the delivery of major projects, business development, and customer relations. Working with SBS consulting and third-party teams, Serguei advises on enterprise and cloud technologies, industry implementation best practices, and SBS products direction to ensure sustainability and repeatability of solutions.

Matt Jordan

Vice President of Sales

Matt Jordan joined SBS in 2022 with nearly 20 years of sales experience supporting Utility and Telecommunication engineering professionals. He is responsible for leading the SBS sales organization and is passionate about delivering exceptional value to our customers who design, build and operate the world’s most critical infrastructure.

Patrick Reid

Executive Vice President

Pat Reid joined SBS as the Director of Delivery in November 2011. He brings over thirty years of experience in project management and sales to the SBS team. Pat oversees all aspects of the SBS integration services group.

Joey Baker

Director of Substation Solutions

Joey Baker leads the SBS Substation Solutions team and oversees the product and service delivery of this business unit. Joey is a twenty-year veteran of the substation industry and has been actively involved in moving the industry from legacy, CAD-based design to advanced 3D modeling systems.

Jim Lucas

Director of Solution Marketing

Jim Lucas has twenty years of experience as a utility design professional and software project manager. Jim provides executive consulting and guidance for SBS customers in the implementation of integrated design solutions. He also advises the SBS product development team on utility design trends and best practices.

Ryan Cauffman

Director of Customer Experience

Ryan Cauffman joined SBS in September 2009. He leads and manages all marketing activities for SBS as well as the SBS FME practice and software division. As business unit leader, Ryan manages the sales and accounts of SBS and Safe Software developed software and services.

Trevor Scullion

Director of Emerging Technologies

Trevor leads SBS in the research of the latest technologies SBS customers can leverage to transform engineering and design processes into digital solutions. He has spent more than twenty years researching, building, and selling two software startups, one of which was the Substation Design Suite products acquired by SBS.

Aaron Schmitt

Director of Delivery & Operations

Aaron Schmitt has risen through the ranks of SBS to his current role of Director of Delivery & Operations. Having overseen the Project Delivery organization for many years, he brings a customer success focused view to every project and now to our Development organization. Aaron manages Project Delivery and Development Operations.

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Our Partners

SBS Partners With Industry-Leading Organizations

SBS is committed to delivering best-of-breed distribution and substation design solutions to the utility and telecommunications industries. To meet the needs of our customers, SBS has established proven methodologies, industry templates, configuration tools, and a network of third-party partners. SBS continually works with its customers, delivery teams, and partners to continuously improve these solutions.

SBS design solutions seamlessly integrate with a variety of systems that are part of an overall design workflow including asset management, work order management, GIS, engineering analysis, and mobile computing. SBS has technical expertise and strategic partnerships with leading industry solution providers: Autodesk, Esri, Oracle, Safe Software, SPIDA Software, and others.

Autodesk Consulting System Integrator

SBS is a strategic partner of Autodesk, having acquired their portfolio of utility products, Substation Design Suite and AutoCAD Utility Design. SBS also acquired Autodesk’s utility consulting team as part of the strategic alliance. These highly skilled staff members have deep technical expertise in many of Autodesk’s core products including AutoCAD, Map3D, Inventor, Vault and others. SBS is an Autodesk Consulting System Integrator and has developed product-level integration solutions that support GIS, engineering, and ERP workflow integration via the Utility DataHub™ platform.

Esri Gold Partner

As the global leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Esri is a key partner with SBS in providing a geographic context to our Intelligent Design Solutions. SBS is a renowned leader in the integration of Esri geospatial products including advanced support for the Esri Utility Network Model Extension. SBS also provides Esri-based interoperability solutions to support coexistence with CAD and alternate GIS products. With over one hundred Esri-based engagements in place, SBS provides the unique skills to make geographic information an integral part of utility design workflows.

Safe Software Silver Partner

Safe Software’s FME product is the market leader ETL for geospatial information. SBS leverages FME in many of our spatial integration offerings, enabling our clients to exchange data between different applications without the limitations of proprietary formats and systems. SBS is a member of the Silver VAR Partner Program for Safe Software and has developed several FME extensions that support a variety of different platforms. Working with SBS products, these FME offerings support advanced capabilities such as two-way interoperability and network model extraction.

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SBS provides a rewarding and exciting environment promoting flexibility, innovation, and commitment. We strive to employ the best people in our industry and encourage innovation, leadership, and achievement to provide employees the opportunity to make a real difference.

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Are you a fit?

SBS is currently hiring! Please click each job posting for more details on key responsibilities.

SBS offers competitive salaries, performance incentives, paid holidays, a comprehensive insurance package, an outstanding 401k plan, and tuition reimbursement.

We’re always looking to connect with the most talented individuals in the industry. If you think you have something to contribute, please feel free to get in touch!

Please send resume and cover letter to hr@spatialbiz.com.

Integrations Technical Consultant
Technical Support Consultant

Integrations Technical Consultant- $90-$120K

Spatial Business Systems, Inc. has an immediate position for an Integrations Technical Consultant. You will be responsible for working on the services delivery Team specializing in integrations, specifically with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) applications as part of the project delivery life cycle.

The most successful candidate will be a self-starter that demonstrates excellent communication and problem-solving skills with a strong drive for innovation.

*The bold highlights below are the most key skillsets for this role.

Required Qualifications:

5 + Yrs. Minimum of Professional Services and/or Software Development experience
Experience with the following programing languages: C# .NET, Java
Database experience (Oracle, SQL)
Client facing for Projects (Implementation of SBS software to meet the Client’s Requirements); will have a Consulting background
- Ability to run & manage meetings
- Ability to gather, manage and review requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

Ability to meet regularly with Company Management and Customers to align goals
Experience Designing and developing system integration interfaces to ERP, work management and GIS systems
Experience working with the Autodesk AutoCAD API
Experience with the following software preferred: Autodesk AutoCAD Map 3D
Experience with Object-Oriented Programming
General understanding of the Electric Distribution, Transmission, and Substation design domains (Utilities)

Technically qualified applicants should also have the following personal and team skills:

Experience leading large projects or authoring significant open-source tools on their own
Fit for company long term – will find work interesting and want to take on series role long term; take over the Design Tool product
Motivated self-starter, able to multi-task to meet deadlines, and possess strong communications skills
Strong verbal and written communications skills
Strong personal commitment to success of project and meeting expectations of clients
Be a team player

Compensation & Benefits:

The salary for this position is determined based on candidate’s previous work experience, current technical abilities and market salary information.

Spatial Business Systems, Inc. offers a competitive benefits package with benefits starting on you very first day of employment. Benefits for full-time employees include:

20 days of paid time + 8 paid holidays each year
Comprehensive Medical Insurance, with FSA and HSA options
Vision and Dental Care
401(K) Plan including matching contributions
Life Insurance and short & long-term disability

Technical Support Consultant- $60-80K

Spatial Business Systems, Inc. has an immediate position for an Technical Support Consultant. You will be responsible for working in coordination with the services delivery & product team aiding in the support for our existing Clients that may need a wide range of support ranging from licensing support to configuration support within their active solutions. This candidate will need to have a strong ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks that come through on a daily basis.