Paul Schmid Email & Phone Number

Northfield, OH, US

Cleveland, OH, US

I champion Business Agility and lead Sherwin-Williams to a product and platform-orientated organization. I lead all levels to understand and embrace lean-agile ways of working by designing, planning, and executing the full transformation, from shaping the journey with executive and senior management to hands-on coaching on the floor. I also lead and mentor.

Cleveland, OH, US

• As the director of IT Strategy, I am responsible for the collaborative development and curation of our North Star vision and aligned strategies to get us there.
• Lead the creation of the first consolidated IT Strategy for Sherwin-Williams.
• Contributed to our first digital strategy in conjunction with Professor Michael Porter.
• Led the senior leadership team over multiple sessions to collaboratively create the 2025 Digital Technology Strategy. This was a 5-year, four-pillar strategy, with seven matching strategic plans by top-level.
• Drove our Business Relationship management office, in conjunction with our business units, to develop and understand the business level strategies and the intersection with our technology roadmaps.
• Collaborated with Enterprise and Domains Architecture to develop our business and technical capabilities models and applied those to our business units and value streams.

Cleveland, OH, US

Responsible for our (team responsibilities below):- Solutions Architecture team- Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) team- Delivery Automation Team (DevOps) team- Application Security team- Application Performance Management (APM) team- Ecommerence Engineering team

Cleveland, OH, US

• Enterprise-level team focused on driving development teams to high-quality solutions through quality automation and manual exploration.
• Heavy focus on inter-team realignment and resource management.
• Created three new QA-focused roles, aligned those roles to career pathing and job descriptions, and created action plans to migrate people into those new roles.
• Embedded and shared resources are distributed among all of the strategic SHW initiatives.

Cleveland, OH, US

• Realtime and batch-style integration team that focuses on business outcomes not just IT to IT system connections.
• Heavy focus on governance, multiple competing priorities, and the creation of score-based priority roadmaps.
• Worked cross-business and cross-IT functions on many projects and initiatives.

Cleveland, OH, US

• Monitoring, alerting, performance, artificial intelligence, automated incident management and more are driven from this customer-focused team.
• Identified the need for and developed a practice, staff plan, job family and career progression. Fostered support for the practice and worked cross the organization to move key resources.
• Moved the practice from an IT capability focus to application/customer-focused practice. Developed numerous innovations that lead to both the business and IT have a clearer view of the real status of key systems.

Cleveland, OH, US

• Enterprise-level shared team focused on identity and access management of SHW owned accounts (authentication, authorization, identity (de)provisioning, role-based access controls and federations).
• Presented, persuaded, and educated multiple levels of management in multiple lines of business around multi-factor authentication (MFA) and its business benefits and implementation path. Establish and drove timelines.
• Leverage business-focused non-technical language with multiple business units to implement single-sign-on (SSO) for critical business applications on short timelines.

Cleveland, OH, US

• A team focused on finding security problems before others do. Working with delivery teams to find and fix their application-focused security issues.
• Established an application-focused security team to architect, detect, test, and help resolve SHW’s ever-changing web and application security challenges.
• Using business-focused language and outcomes; persuaded SHW marketing teams over several lines of business to understand the benefits of this practice and integrate it into their internal and external development.
• Established and socialized central security defect reporting and dashboarding capabilities for both business and IT.

Cleveland, OH, US

• An engineering operations team dedicated to cloud-hosted servers and middleware running customer-facing applications including Sherwin-William.com eCommerce.
• Proposed, influenced and implemented budgets and migration plans to move from a fully outsourced operations team to a fully funded Sherwin operations team.
• Increased team ownership and Sherwin knowledge while decreasing problem resolution time and over $4M in total cost.
• This practice is now one of the best examples at SHW of an operations team that focuses on automation instead of manual intervention. This foundation and culture were set during the creation of this team.

Cleveland, OH, US

I am responsible for leading and managing the Web Engineering department with a focus on new projects and technologies as well as our Configuration Management department. The Web Engineering department is responsible for the architecture, design, configuration and implementation of all web solutions. We are also responsible for performing technology.

Cleveland, OH, US

I was responsible for the design, configuration, implementation, and support of web solutions in a global environment including web servers, application servers, portals, directory servers, and single-sign-on servers. Ensuring systems are compatible and in compliance with hosting standards and identify solutions that fall outside current standards..

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Developed, administered, and designed a professional data-driven websites with over 6,000 static and dynamic pages. Setup and maintained a MSSQL Server database with critical company information. Set automated backup schedules, incremental daily and entire weekly. Custom developed a secure online learning management system (LMS) and customer management.

Masters Of Science In Digital Science, Enterprise Architecture

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems