SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 

Results-driven Senior Information Technology Executive with expertise envisioning and leading technology-based, multi-million dollar revenue and growth initiatives grounded solidly on business and economic value.  Impressive, fast track management career marked by demonstrated ability to build peak-performing teams and achieve cross-functional business objectives.  Valued member of senior executive teams, contributing to seasoned, broad-based perspective to create pragmatic IT strategies and implementation plans designed for maximum return at the lowest possible costs.

 

 

Business Development

Ø      Startup systems implementation

Ø      Vendor & Contract Negotiations

Ø      Organizational Design & Restructuring

Ø      Team Building & Leadership

Ø      Profit and Loss Management

IT

Ø      Enterprise IT Systems

Ø      Information Architecture

Ø      Efficiency Improvement

Ø      Technical Architecture Design

Ø      New Product & Technology Launch

 

Risk Management

Ø      Program & Project Management

Ø      Business Process Improvement:

·          Project Management

·          Change Management

·          Resource Management

Ø      Definition of short-term, mid-term, and long-term business objectives

Strategy

Ø      IT Strategy & Execution

Ø      eCommerce Strategy & Delivery

Ø      Corporate Mission Fulfillment

Ø      Definition of standards-based technology architecture

Ø      Design and definition of futuristic systems to meet strategic long-term business goals

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

P.S.S. MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS                                                 Chicago, Illinois                  2002-present

Self-owned technology management consulting company.

Director, Development & Operations

Startup Trading System Implementation

17 Staff § $7 Million Budget § Projected Revenue $10 Million

Startup company had tried for six years to get a trading system going, but had difficulty controlling scope.  Company brought in Mr. Schultz then to direct and manage various tasks from requirements definition to project planning, and through to system implementation.  Acquired a facility, hardware, and assembled a team of QA, Database, and Development professionals to design and build a $7 million real-time trading system based on ASP .NET web-based technology, over a 3 ½ year timeframe.

CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE                                                                 Chicago, Illinois                       1992-2002

The world’s oldest derivatives (futures and futures-options) exchange with more than 3,600 members trading 47 different futures and options products.  2001 annual trading volume of more than 260 million contracts.

Director, Information Technology                 

Improving order flow efficiency

70 Staff § $10 Million Budget § 15% Increase in Revenue

Order turnaround time was too long at a major futures exchange in Chicago.  Managed development and implementation of a Client/Server front-end to Tandem-based Order Routing system, over 11 month period, with a $10 million budget.  Reduced order turnaround time by 50%, resulting in improved, more efficient order flow, which increased fee revenues. 

Electronic trading system implementation

58 Staff § $6 Million Budget § $15 Million Revenue

A major futures exchange in Chicago had not succeeded in implementing their own real-time private equity and cash derivatives electronic trading system, after seven years.  Exchange then directed Mr. Schultz to develop a list of requirements, project plan, system implementation plan, and marketing strategy.  In partnership with Prebon Yamane of New Jersey and Market Data Corp. of Connecticut, achieved production implementation a month ahead of plan in 10 months, and within budget.

Project/Change Management Improvements, Migration to Matrix Org

350 Staff § $14 Million Budget

Project and Change Management processes were severely lacking at a major futures exchange in Chicago.  Introduced Kintana process management tool for entering project requests and tracking project progress, streamlining and better controlling project management and change management processes.  Developed and directed a corporate-wide Program Management Office, overseeing a total staff of 350 I.T. professionals, building a duplicate redundant data center with a complete test environment, thus achieving uninterrupted operations at the Year 2000 turnover.  Managed cross-exchange Y2K coordination efforts, achieving 28 man months of work in 14 months.

Research, select & implement hand-held trade recording technology

60 Staff § $12 Million Budget

No audit trail of trade transactions existed to meet a government mandate set down by the CFTC on U.S. futures exchanges.  Investigated hand-held computer technology to meet this requirement.  Led a team to select and implement three prototype hand-held computers for use by traders to timestamp trade transactions and create an irrefutable audit trail for government oversight, over a 4-year time period.  Utilized platforms from IBM mainframe to Tandem mid-range, to Client Server, to UNIX-based wireless transceivers, to hand-held DOS-based devices.

 

P.S.S. MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS                                                 Chicago, Illinois                       1988-1992

Self-owned technology management consulting company.

Chief Architect And Designer

4 Staff § $1 Million Budget § $ 2 Million Savings

Great Lakes Steel had brought in several companies as consultants to help them design a network that would meet their operating requirements.  Nobody understood their business.  Over a 1 ½ year period, documented inventory, captured requirements, and designed a Fiber Optic network using state-of-the-art Technical Architecture.  Received a letter of commendation for resourceful planning and design, from mainframe down to terminal clusters in the six mill locations.

Chief Architect & Designer, IU / PUI & OLIS

30 Staff § $25 Million Budget

Indiana University / Purdue University at Indianapolis (IU/PUI) had contracted with a major telephone company to architect their “Library of the Future”.  Ohio Integrated Library Information Systems (OLIS) put out a Request For Proposal (RFP) for bids to develop a new Library Information System.  Designed and planned IU/PUI’s “Library of the Future” over 1 ½ year time-frame.  Wrote Requirements Overview and Conceptual Design for future needs of entire library and its total environment.  Received a letter of commendation for outstanding design efforts and unique architecture.  IBM was selected to implement the plan.

Data Center Relocation / Consolidation

6 Staff § $3 Million Budget § $38 Million Savings

Montgomery Ward had to relocate 7 data centers and consolidate them down to 5, then down to 4, and ultimately down to 1, while at the same time consolidating a multi-drop network to a point-to-point network, just after Judge Green passed his AT&T decision.  Program was originally projected to take 5 years, but was reduced to 3 years, yielding a 27 million dollar savings in operating costs with an additional savings of 11 million in networking costs.

 

FAILSAFE COMPUTER SYSTEMS                                                          Chicago, Illinois                       1986-1988

A leading provider of Tandem TCP/IP communication protocol products.

Senior Staff Consultant / Chief Architect

Senior Staff Consultant / Chief Architect

6 Staff § $3 Million Budget § $7 Million Revenue

Tandem Corporation could not get to market with a product, and multiple vendors could not figure out how to engineer a communications path for manufacturing or engineering.  Designed and architected front-end processor architecture that off-loaded the Tandem, and routed engineering requirements to engineering applications, the work in process inventory to the floor control, and just-in-time processing for management.  Designed, developed, and supported major application and operating system interfaces, networks, conversions, and upgrades for Tandem users, over a 2 year period.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

University of Wisconsin, Madison - Masters Certificate, Project Management, 2000-2001:

Project Management for IT                                            Project Teams: Leading, Managing and Facilitating

Mastering Project Management                                      Persuasion and Influence Skills for Project Managers

Managing Subcontracts in Project Management              Estimating and Managing Project Risks

International Data Processing Institute

Undergraduate Theology, Concordia Theological School

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Member National TCP/IP Committee

Member PMI (Project Management Institute) #287480

 

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS

1995 Smithsonian Computerworld Award for highest degree of technical excellence in Financial and Banking Industry

1996 Smithsonian Computerworld Award for highest degree of technical excellence in Financial and Banking Industry