Brad Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Boise, Id, Us

Eagle, Idaho, United States

* Coached software development teams through the execution and completion of strategic projects after quickly mastering QuickBooks product and technology..* Led the QuickBooks Time migration of 14B+ annualized traffic and events to target-state shared services. Unlocked AI/ML innovation and access to consistent product experiences. Became the first development team to complete this complicated project and did so without introducing customer friction.* Established roles and permissions framework and authorization patterns for use across the QuickBooks product line, accelerating the QuickBooks Workforce adoption by the mid-market by enabling granular level access for HR and Payroll Manager personnel while maintaining full access to Payroll and Time functionality.* Increased quality by improving SMS invitation acceptance rate by 25%, introducing caching improvements and optimizations to enhance authorization performance by 50%, and reducing the number of daily logouts by 50%.* Proactively connected and collaborated with adjacent teams and cross-functional partners to ideate and solve complex problems. Led to the completion of the most challenging and difficult projects.* Displayed breadth of management abilities by successfully guiding the team, driving direction, and diving into technical details. Empowered the most productive team members to work autonomously while providing more structured leadership to individuals who were struggling.* Provided strategic direction across QuickBooks Time and Payroll product lines and expanded into the Small Business Self Employment Group (SBSEG) segment.* Defined product architecture and feature set by collaborating with enterprise architects, product management, UX design, and business stakeholders.

Boise, Idaho, United States

* Earned a promotion to Senior Technology Leader over the engineering organization within the first six months of employment. Led a 100+ person software engineering team across nine functional areas and five product lines that generated over $55M in annual revenue.* Led a united and diverse team to deliver best-in-class digital identity trust and fraud detection solutions.* Coached managers to offer player-coach management opportunities to four high-potential individual contributors. Freed up 30% capacity for leaders to focus on strategic work, presented growth opportunities for top achievers, reduced burnout, and improved the quality of the management succession plan.* Expanded engineering teams by 60% to support significant increases in feature development and the support of three key product lines.* Developed and executed a strategic plan to retain four key employees who produced 60% of architectural deliverables, reducing the creation of redundant functionality by 90%.* Streamlined feature delivery by restructuring the organization to be customer-focused with a product-driven mindset, empowering the product team to set priorities, and ensuring stakeholder alignment.* Implemented blue-green deployment methodology, eliminating downtime and a 60 second degradation in application performance during AWS Kubernetes cluster upgrades.

Boise, Idaho, United States

* Collaboratively led seven teams comprising six Software Development Managers, three Solution Architects, and 50+ individual contributors responsible for creating all Kount revenue-generating identity and fraud detection products.* United a fractured engineering organization to think and act as one team within the first three months. Significantly increased morale, reduced attrition, and retained key talent.* Built cross-functional relationships with Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success, which resulted in improved communication and collaboration between Engineering and individual departments.* Launched tech integration projects to revive progress towards acquisition completion and expanded product integration efforts to enable cross-selling opportunities.* Recruited and onboarded two highly experienced Senior Managers to prepare for significant growth and scaling within the organization.* Developed personalized training plans for key employees, aiding in professional development and increased growth opportunities within Kount. Simultaneously improved collaboration with co-workers.

Boise, Idaho Area

* Strategically led a team of 25+ Software Development, Quality Assurance, and DevOps professionals to adopt best practices in software development, testing, and deployment.* Guided and mentored a 200+ member IT organization to utilize tools and processes that ensured reliable and frequent delivery of business value and high-quality solutions in the cloud (AWS) and on-premises, becoming innovators in the healthcare insurance space.* Re-architected the Blue Cross of Idaho website by breaking up a monolithic on-premises application into a modern microservice architecture.* Leveraged Docker containerization and created a CI/CD pipeline to automate the entire build, testing, infrastructure deployment (IaC), and application deployment processes.* Introduced process improvements, which included Agile (Scrum), continuous integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, team working standards, and team design and code reviews.* Launched a DevOps team and implemented SRE practices across the organization to optimize and automate software build, testing, and deployment processes for applications in the cloud (AWS) and on-premises.

Boise, Idaho Area

* Directed highly-skilled software development and quality assurance teams comprised of 4 managers and 20+ software professionals producing the SAP Mobile Secure Enterprise Mobility Management software suite.* Skyrocketed company to become the leading Mobile Device Management vendor for Android Security on Samsung devices by delivering the most complete set of KNOX mobile device security functionality to the enterprise market in <9 months.* Recognized as upper management’s “go to” development team for the most vital and challenging projects due to our consistent ability to create elegant and efficient solutions and deliver on schedule.* Ensured delivery of highest quality software, on time and under budget, by enforcing use of Agile (Scrum) development.* Defined product architecture and feature definition by collaborating with product management and product ownership.

Boise, Idaho Area

Boise, Idaho Area

Boise, Idaho Area