About Chris Schmidt
Executive Technology Consultant
Chris is a business consultant based in the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin..
Possessing over 20 years experience in information technology, his career started as a programmer in the early 1990’s programming in 17 languages for a fortune 500 company. His career continued in PC support, UNIX and Midrange/Mainframe systems support, continued on with enterprise network support (including Cisco networks, wireless, RFID, VOIP, video conferencing solutions, blade computing solutions, SAN’s etc), then specializing in the design aspect of those technology solutions for customers. Chris has a an active security clearance and holds certification in Data Center Design, Build, Operations and Management. He is also pursuing certifications in ITIL and Lean Six Sigma.
Chris has fine tuned his management capabilities through continuing education and has developed highly effective technical specialists leading to optimal ROI models based upon industry best practices. This has helped companies save money and increase sales and profit margins. His experience in business management and technology enables him to be highly effective in applying technology to achieve business goals.
Working for private and publicly traded international companies at director level positions, he has been responsible for managing and directing all aspects of technology (ERP solutions, software application development teams and infrastructure support organizations). In his following, service organizations were constructed based upon ITIL best practices. With over 10 years management experience, Chris has been able to identify business process improvements by saving resources and materials within the business; thus enabling companies to grow with a larger profit margin. Chris has served as an advisor to executive management teams where he has developed business strategies and directed initiatives to ensure operational stability.
Chris has experienced success in establishing, start-up, turnaround, and rapid-change environments within several industries: Health & Hygiene, Medical & Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Government contract. Chris continues to demonstrated the strategic value IT has in powering business by identifying, developing and project managing multi-million dollar projects (including successful outsourcing strategies). In doing so, he has maximized business performance, profitability and competitiveness, while building agile and innovative organizations. With extensive experience in creating technology vision & strategy, he delivers solutions that can be realized and managed within real world constraints.
With exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, Chris builds high performing teams and have been able to operates freely across a company from the shop floor to the boardroom. From his perspective, IT organizations have the most exposure to all the ways a company takes care of its customers (internally & externally), the best insight over how the whole company functions and what’s important to each department.
While Chris has specialized in many areas, his specialty remains in providing technology solutions and efficiencies to business problems that add business value and are within budget constraints.
Providing IT solutions is his passion!!