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On the Cover

PAUL MAXIMUK

PDO Product Owner: Smart Building Technology & Controls
FORD LAND

Paul Maximuk is the Product Owner as well as a technical SME at Ford Land,
leading all BMS and controls integrations globally. He has over 30 years of
experience in the industry managing multiple types of energy systems and
specializing in strategic smart building implementation and management.
Paul’s expertise in the built environment spans real estate assets from large
industrial facilities to Class A office buildings.

Tell us about your role at Ford Land.
I am part of the technology group, a collaboration between the IT and oper-
ations technology teams. We’re currently focusing on North American sites,
with attention on our updated R&E (Research & Engineering) campus where
they do product development. Our team resides in the same collaborative
space and interacts on a daily basis—something that a lot of organizations
have not done in the past. We are in the process of undergoing an agile trans-
formation, as we found it necessary to evolve our methods to support the way
technology rapidly advances.

What are the major technology projects you started
or completed in the last 12 months?
We’ve been heavily focused on space utilization and space analytics. Part of
that focus is to understand where the heaviest concentration of people are
within a given space, the total people count within those spaces and how
long those spaces are used. We’ve advanced the user interface controls for

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