He has also previously held positions with the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), Octagon Sports Marketing, Plymouth State and the University of New Hampshire.
In addition, he supervised Yale's varsity support service units of sports medicine, equipment operations and strength and conditioning, as well as all intercollegiate scheduling, event management, and postseason championships for the 35-sport department.
As senior associate director of athletics at Georgia Tech from 2011-2015, Bamford had direct oversight of all internal operations and supervision of the football, men's basketball and baseball programs.
[9] Bamford shared his thoughts on his time at Georgia Tech with Atlanta Journal-Constitution beat-writer Ken Seguira prior to leaving the Flats for UMass.
In his first six months at UMass, Bamford generated interest and visibility for the athletics program by announcing the department would fund the Cost of Attendance gap for its scholarship student-athletes.
However, after the two-day celebration, many sources concluded the events were a huge success for UMass in generating interest around a golden era of Minutemen basketball.
[18][19] After only four years, The Boston Globe published an article on the University's lack of progress as a Football Bowl Subdivision member school[20] with Bamford saying, "I didn't come here to fail."