Aaron Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Des Moines, IA, US

• Review and develop current state process models meeting Business Process Mapping and Notation (BPMN) 2.0
• Lead process design meetings to work with the Senior Leaders, Process Owners, Process Managers, and Subject Matter Experts to develop process models making sure to capture activity summaries and 60+ meta data items.
• Identify and catalog opportunities for improvements specifically on time, dollar amount, and customer satisfaction for Risk and Self Control Self-Assessment (RCSA).
• Update process models and metadata during trailing activities of Post Workshop effort to verify data in the iGrafx System Of Record is correct, complete, and clear. Document progress in Jira and SharePoint.
• Work with team to understand change and how change impacts the process and people who use the process.
• Complete quality review of process and service models aligning to CSBB standards providing feedback to submitters and capturing the quality and defects for reporting purposes.

West Des Moines, Iowa, US

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to plan and coordinate goal setting, business needs, and process improvement activities, including responsibility for detecting opportunities for efficiency.
• Manage, develop, maintain, and deliver quarterly updates on team project progress by tracking project status and quarterly project savings. Develop a methodology to document project cost savings.
• Work with leaders to understand goals and strategies while finding gaps for improvement efforts. Lead projects to find root cause issues. Develop solutions for root cause issues. Implement solutions and track progress.
• Specific project to develop a Risk Management tracking log for Business Tier Risk and IT Severity Risk. Work to develop a collaboration between the Business and IT to prioritize which issue is to be completed first.
• Specific project to develop an updated Telephony use. Work to develop a process flow of how AI can be used on the telephony system to reduce the number of calls taken by “live” representatives while keeping the status.

San Francisco, California, US

• Develop, improve, and optimize processes environments including process standards related to formulation and other metrics. Troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, and resolve complicated process and.
• Manage, develop, maintain, and deliver Process Architecture Intermediate Session that instructs how to collect 60+ metadata points that describe a process and Process Modeling Intermediate Session focusing on iGrafx.
• Manage, develop, maintain, and deliver an additional 18 training courses with each course having a duration of 1-3 hours. Provide deep dives into iGrafx Modeling functionality and Process Architecture metadata fields..
• Lead group initiatives that encompass research and future state requiring the application of specialized knowledge or skills critical to the redesign efforts
• Develop root cause research and business case for proposed technology, staff, and structure changes, including cost estimates
• Establish standards for measuring performance against process requirements utilizing formal process engineering tools and methods

San Francisco, California, US

• Work with Team Members on 1st Mortgage and Home Equity projects using DMAIC and BPMD methodologies to document current and proposed future state. Act as a trusted advisor to determine how a process can be improved and.
• Managed the pre-work effort to facilitate understanding and direction of stories. Managed the effort to develop the Epic with Critical To Quality, SIPOC, Current State, and Future State so effective stories can be.
• Developed and led redesign initiatives that encompassed end-to-end analyses and future state redesign, utilizing process expertise for multiple business groups. integrating process analyses, identifying procedural and.
• Managed complex problems involving multiple business processes to identify risks and opportunities where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors, conceptual thinking, and.
• Consulted with leaders and front-line team members to understand, influence, adapt analysis, create alternatives for consideration, drive results, and bring issues to resolution.
• Consulted with Capital Markets IPPM Area to improve work quality for proper execution by engaging Senior Management.

• Investigated current state processes and developed future state process diagrams by using Visio and iGrafx while collaborating team to complete a project.
• Identify risks and opportunities for improvements in projects. Organize, lead, and facilitate to provide a “what next” asking of questions to the team to understand the current state and then develop future state.

• Managed a multi-million dollar material resource table to predict future budgets while also identifying potential gaps in budget efforts.
• Collaborated with Project Managers and Functional Leads to provide data on personnel metrics and usage metrics which were provided to Senior Managers.
• Completed a greenbelt six sigma project on the Material Resource Yearly Update in April 2015. Improved the yearly update to the Material Resource Table by reducing the time from 214 days to 25 days for completion.
• Tasked to provide transparency of costs associated with projects by tying together the Financial Costs, Units, and Material Resources which will provide Senior Leadership a deeper understanding of impacts to the.

• Facilitated, collaborated, and led the effort to develop cost models in Corn Transformation. Controlled Environments FAST Corn; Metabolomics; Genetic Marker Technology Plants, and Spectroscopy. Utilized Value Stream.
• Provided a review summary of items to reduce costs.
• Maintained the cost models and budget for Controlled Environments locations of Johnston and California.

US

• Point of contact for functional areas within Applied Technology Systems concerning cost models to provide insight and strategy of each year’s budget.
• Reviewed and wrote effective air quality construction permits using the Code of Federal Regulations and through strong critical thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving abilities. Completed a review of the submitted.
• Actively involved with Kaizen in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) as part of the Core Team. Acted in the capacity of Facilitation, Project Manager, Team Leader, Point Kaizen, and Team Member for the.

Collierville, Tennessee, US

Plant engineer; design, construct, and start up a multi-million dollar liquid tank farm; label process flows; laboratory support; liquids operation manager; dry flow able material understanding; budget holder; work with contractors to secure bids and let bids.

Supervise site personnel. Work at sites at one time used to produce Manufactured Gas Plants (crack coal to produce burnable gas) which have become part of the National Priority List for CERCLA (Superfund Sites)

Iowa City, Iowa, US

Obtained Grade III Water Treatment Plant Operator and Grade II Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Certification. Start as a maintenance technician in the making of drinkable water and distribution of said water. Trained as water operator to make drinking water, passed licensing to be operator, and became supervisor of student operators on the weekend..

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification, Continuous Process Improvement

Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt Certification, Continuous Process Improvement

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Chemical Engineering