Robert Schmitt Email & Phone Number

Seymour, Connecticut, Us

The Junkluggers is an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional junk removal, providing sustainable disposal services for homes and businesses. Our team of friendly, professionally trained, licensed and insured employees specialize in removing and recycling or donating unwanted residential, commercial and industrial items. We partner with local charities to try to ensure that most of the items we take find a new home, and we provide you with a tax-deductible receipt for any items we are able to donate on your behalf.Established in 2004 The Junkluggers is striving to eliminate 100% of reusable waste from landfills by the year 2025. We believe that it’s critical to take care of our planet today to ensure a bright future for our children tomorrow.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

* Focused on global risk and compliances and financial services industry* Responsible for global infrastructure engineering, operations and support * Responsible for full service application development and design supporting composition, tagging, and filings business partners * Manage multi-million dollar budget in both capital and expense * Partnering with c-suite in delivering value added initiatives and cost savings programs

Columbus, Oh, Us

• Served as a consultant during the first 9 months, through STA Group, providing management and strategy guidance for SalesForce.com, Omni-Channel, and development methodologies. • Manage a multi-million dollar capital project budget and payroll budget. Implemented a new product-based organizational model migrating away from a horizontal-based organization • Formulate business systems architecture plans, estimate costs, and ensure projects meet strategic needs. • Provide strategic lT leadership across multiple client functions in partnership with senior clients and IT managers. Partner with senior clients and application development managers to create robust solutions.• Ensure strategic roadmaps are well understood and serve as a dynamic tool to manage emerging requirements and projects throughout organization.• Work with senior business and IT leaders to manage the development priorities and portfolio. Balance cost, efficiency and quality of service delivered to internal and external customers

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

Chief Information Officer at Sasser Family Holdings, Inc., a privately held 4th generation family transportation asset services and investments company with roots dating back to 1928.• Re-organized and transformed technology resources and orgs within multiple holding companies into single centralized global technology center of excellence. Managed $8M global technology budget. Saved over $1M by centralizing and standardizing all infrastructure architecture across organization including virtualization on VMWare, national VOIP solution, and consolidated Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers.• Implemented a business and technology governance structure coordinating prioritization processes across 7 business units with 450 associates located in Australia and the United States. Worked with business units implementing solutions delivery methodology with new governance structures and Agile development teams. • Implemented a master data management solution reducing the number of data sources to 1. Provided the business partners a view of data with a new analytics infrastructure and tools providing data visualization implemented by Tableau and SQL Server BI. • Established a global help desk including a ticketing system, consistent onboarding and off-boarding processes, a consistent hardware platform and image. Introduced and implemented a metric-based management approach to measure progress. • Reinvigorated a failed legacy salesforce.com implementation through a carefully orchestrated business partnership project and new investment in the delivery approach adding value to the business• Delivered a new technology business solutions portfolio (ASP.NET/AngularJS based web applications) to all business units improving business operation efficiencies. Implemented collaboration technologies including social, document management, and real-time communication inside of new Intranet rollout.

Chicago, Us

Chief Technology Officer at Symphono overseeing all client delivery. Responsible for the continual development and enhancement of methodology to assure consistent, robust and timely delivery for all client products and services.• Increased business from 8 to 35 associates over 2 years, from 2008 to 2010, growing the business to $7M in revenue by 2012. • Delivered over 40 solutions to Fortune 500 clients across multiple financial institutions located throughout the United States. Partnered with third party consulting organizations to co-deliver solutions to insurance organizations.• Led the continual development and enhancement of methodology to assure consistent, robust, and timely delivery for all client products and services. Defined and deployed Test Driven Development, design/code review, and unit test processes through collaborative efforts incorporating feedback and ownership by development team.• Prepared and documented technology solutions and estimates inside of 100% of sales proposals and responses for submitted RFPs. Accountable for architectural oversight of each project and product developed for customers.• Managed technology budget including internal improvement projects, resources, equipment, and software. Set up all internal infrastructure including network, servers, user accounts, and hardware procurement• Created focused support structure and process for ongoing client support of implemented solutions.• Primarily serving the financial services industry

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Working as a part of the Capital Markets group in financial services, I continued to grow my career in this organization by coming up from development to development manager, to program / release manager. As a program/release manager, mentored and managed a team of 5 project managers on governance, methodology, and resource management across a multi million dollar project with over 5 development teams and 100 associates. Earlier at Bank of America, led software development lifecycle adoption of Agile methodology throughout the program coordinating with central BOA PMO teams. Started at Bank of America by developing and delivering a system to bridge trading systems using various technologies including J2EE, JMS, Java/CORBA and Objective-C/CORBA.

Us

As part of the company founding team, served as head of development and architecture at Parlano. Designed, built and deployed MindAlign (enterprise collaboration) at over 55 financial institutions, serving over 250,000 active users. Conducted reviews and provided mentoring, for a team consisting of 18 direct reports including architects, developers, database administrators, source code administrators, and technical writers. Planned and tracked parallel projects optimizing out any redundancy and ensuring successful aggregation of work. Communicated status, plans, and issues to upper management and provided information to team about changes, events, and new policiesSet technical direction of product including all requirements as provided by product management and customer feedback. Set standards and procedures regarding development methodology, source code control, and development platforms

Zurich, Ch

Started UBS as a part of one of its acquisitions, Swiss Bank Corp / O'Connor Partners. Initially working within the Equities technology group and finishing my time with UBS in the Foreign Exchange technology team. Developed systems in Objective C and Java during my time with UBS. Moved quickly to leadership and management roles during my 7 years. Had exposure to a range of investment products from convertible bonds to FX exotics.