Dave Schmidt Email & Phone Number

United States

Assisting clients with Information Technology strategies:I.T. Sourcing Strategy Lifecycle BenchmarkingVendor Management Contract ManagementProject Management OfficeBenchmarkingGovernance Market Intelligence

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Global Sourcing/Vendor Management supporting IT Infrastructure and Information Security as well as IT Benchmark COE at Boeing.
• Developed and implemented sourcing strategy for Information Technology & Data Analytics
• Responsible for SOW creation, technical evaluations, and Service Level Measurements for all IT&DA RFX’s.
• Led a team of senior level sourcing specialists and benchmark Center of Excellence.
• Responsible for all 3rd party IT Benchmarks and managing Gartner and ISG market intelligence contracts.
• Led cross functional teams including Finance, Security, Indirect Supply Chain, and IT Service Owners.

Bellevue, Washington

• Responsible for Market Intelligence, Transformational 3rd Party Benchmarks, and Peer to Peer collaborations for all Products/Portfolios in IT with an annual budget of approx. $2.8B
• Manage all 3rd party Market Intelligence contracts of Gartner, Hackett, and ISG
• Provide market intelligence for high level IT strategy to senior IT executives for Board presentations
• Establish Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA) with top Fortune 100 companies to collaborate IT Strategies
• Boeing Designated Expert (BDE) – IT Benchmarking

Bellevue

• Led a team of 20 senior projects managers. Team led global IT enterprise projects across multiple portfolio.
• Team used Agile and Waterfall methodologies to deliver results for major programs like:o Office 365, Network/Telco, Apptio, WebEx, DFARS, Factory Automation, Mergers & Acquisitions, etc.
• IT Infrastructure Benchmark Owner o 2018 - Led IT Benchmark of 6 portfolios across 45 services with an annual budget of $2.8Bo Program Manager for program to reduce IT Infrastructure annual costs by $125M by Sept 2018o.

• Developed and implemented sourcing strategy for $1B annual budget for organizationo 76% of annual budget outsourced including Hardware, Software, and Services
• Responsible for SOW creation, technical evaluations, and Service Level Measurements for all infrastructure RFX’s.
• Proposal Manager for $280M Telecommunications/Network RFP
• Built strategic relationships with key IT HW, SW, and IT Operations Service Providers
• Led cross functional teams including Finance, Security, Supplier Management, and IT Service Owners.

Bellevue

• Led Sourcing teams. Created SOW and Service Level Measurements (SLA’s, SLO’s, and OLA’s)o $20M Enterprise IT Help Desk contract awardo $100M Network contract award
• Provided significant support for Global Network Engineering organization
• Led Network/Voice TCO Benchmark study – in scope activities was $83.3M annual cost
• Participated in non-advocate reviews for high-value and high-risk procurements

Bellevue

• Led cross functional teams for completion of Boeing IT enterprise (Tier I) projects. Led projects for CAD/CAM deployments, Enterprise Network projects, and Microsoft SCCM Product Team.
• Program manager for $3B revenue generating IT Project for Boeing and the UK Ministry of Defense
• Obtained PMP® Certification – March 2009

• Created and taught instructor led IT networking classes for Boeing.
• Classes included Intro to Networks, Basic Protocols, IP Addressing/Subnet Mask, DNS, DHCP, Boeing specific applications (NAMS, DNCMS). Prep classes for CCNA exam. Included Cisco Call Manager for Voice