Karen Schade is a Retired. Colleagues describe her as "I worked with Karen as a peer over the last five years. We have often coordinated together on best practices processes; leveraging knowledge between our teams. Karen forges critical relationships across the company to use informal networks to drive key activities for her team. She works well both as a leader, but I’ve also worked with Karen on several joint efforts and she is a great team member as well, owning her assigned tasks and driving synergies across the larger team to achieve the stated goals. Karen led the development of many of the best practices for the Customer Success team and was responsible for ongoing tracking and reporting of the team key performance indicators (KPIs). She managed the sales funnel of incoming deals, assigning and allocating resources to the various efforts as they reached the appropriate deal maturity level. She has leveraged her project management skills to create standard practices for her team. Karen implemented new tools to provide reporting automation and consolidated tracking of client deployment projects across her group. She partnered with the internal IT and Sales functions to develop the Salesforce and sales reporting tools to support life cycle management of the sales to improve revenue forecasting capabilities. Karen is a great asset to any team and I look forward to future opportunities to work together. " and " At 7:08 PM, Andy Davidson, MBA said the following:I would NOT hesitate to work with again. She was truly wonderful to work with. She has a great attitude and made my job easier (as her salesforce.com administrator) by her understanding of process and how salesforce.com works. When we first setup her group up in Salesforce.com, she provided well thought out processes and reporting requirements. As their processes evolved, Karen did a great job at documenting the changes to their processes and any new needs she foresaw in Salesforce.com. She would also typically communicate these weeks before the processes would change."