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BusinessAnalyst

SHEILA SCHMITZ

Business Analyst
Brighton,MI

Summary

Seasoned collaborator experienced in meeting needs, improving processes and exceeding requirements in team environments. Diligent worker with 20+ years experience and strong communication and task prioritization skills. Accomplished at leveraging past lessons to inform future decision-making.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Homemaker

Unemployed
Brighton, MI
01.2022 - Current
  • I've been out of the Corporate World for the past 11 years to raise my children, but I'm now ready to re-enter the workforce and get back to my former Business Analyst Career Path.

Wellness Coach, CEO And Owner

Fit, LLC
Brighton, MI
  • Conducted health needs assessments on clients and prospective clients and facilitated groups on social media for clients to maintain their health goals
  • Designed and administered training programs for new employees and continuing education for existing employees
  • Maintained databases, mailing lists, and other information to facilitate communications with clients and prospects
  • Provided information to public by preparing and presenting newsletters, conducting media campaigns and maintaining program related web sites
  • Gave presentations at meetings to promote services and offerings
  • Directed and coordinated financial and budget operations to maximize investments and increase efficiency
  • Organized and approved promotional campaigns
  • Represented organization and promoted objectives at networking events and trade shows
  • Maintained and updated customer records in CRM system.

Homemaker

Unemployed
Brighton, MI
02.2012 - 06.2015
  • Took time off to have my children and raise them.

Lead Information Technologist, Programmer Analyst

RL Polk & Co
, MI
  • Designed, developed and led development of programs used to create products that supported Daimler Chrysler, Mercedes and BMW business
  • Utilized COBOL, UNIX, JCL, Control M, Oracle SQL
  • Implemented multiple process improvements on Daimler Chrysler,
  • Mercedes and BMW systems reducing mainframe processing time by 73% and SAS processing time by 38%
  • Maintained 99.5% quality goal producing all deliverables on time and defect free
  • Coordinated creation of detailed system documentation.

Programmer Analyst

Allen Systems Group, ASG
Naples, FL
  • Maintained and supported COBOL, DB2 repository system used to manage change control process for CICS table entries across enterprise
  • Maintained and supported Visual Basic application
  • Managed source control of all code, along with change management process, for team
  • Coordinated system unit testing for all software releases and created release tapes and service packs of software
  • Developed and managed system documentation.

Business Quality Assurance Analyst

ForeSee Results
Ann Arbor
01.2022 - Current
  • MI
  • Participated in internal assessments and audits as required
  • Created and reviewed technical design documentation to ensure accurate development of reporting solutions
  • Documented specifications for information technology team
  • Wrote and revised standard quality control operated procedures.

Manager, Quality

RL Polk & Co
Southfield, MI
09.2009 - 02.2012
  • Monitored testing procedures to ensure that all tests were performed according to established item specifications, standard test methods and protocols
  • Wrote technical documentation
  • Identified quality problems and recommended solutions
  • Investigated and reported questionable test results
  • Managed two developers engaged in the automation of manual processes and implementation of process improvements
  • Worked with stakeholders to develop detailed requirements for developers and conducted unit testing
  • Led multiple Six Sigma initiatives that streamlined processes and improved quality
  • Created and facilitated several corporate processes, including employee continuous improvement suggestion process and Production Life Cycle
  • Process
  • Managed team that realized $1.9 Million in annual cost savings for organization
  • Led Six Sigma project that reduced customer reported issues for business area by 10% and reduced the time to close issues by 76 days
  • Designed and drove development of application to automate Production
  • Life Cycle Process, saving work days
  • Documented departmental processes and conducted process-based audits for compliance to ISO 9001:2000 Standard and verification of corrective actions across the organization
  • Developed three training sessions, including Writing Effective
  • Requirements Training, and conducted corporate training classes for the organization
  • Wrote articles for multiple Quality Counts customer newsletters, coordinated collaboration of newsletter and facilitated distribution to customers.

Information Technologist, Programmer Analyst

RL Polk & Co
Southfield, MI
06.2003 - 06.2004
  • Created, executed and supported programs to support Daimler Chrysler,
  • Mercedes and BMW business
  • Utilized COBOL, UNIX, JCL, Control M, Oracle
  • SQL
  • Consolidated COBOL programs creating single program that reduced processing costs by 56%
  • Coded Oracle SQL scripts for implementation of multiple process improvements
  • Developed UNIX scripts to load data into Oracle Databases
  • Created and modified Control-M schedules to increase efficiency.

Systems Officer, Senior Programmer Analyst

Bank One
Detroit, MI
09.2000 - 11.2002
  • Developed, maintained and supported COBOL and CICS applications within Commercial Lending department
  • Created and supported multiple Lotus Notes database applications utilizing Oracle, Lotus Script and PowerBuilder
  • Created a data warehouse utilizing Oracle and PowerBuilder
  • Assisted with Commercial Loan System conversion and built interface for system
  • Created various reports utilizing Infomaker and other technology.

Education

Certification In Holistic Nutrition American Fitness Professionals and Associates -

04.1995 - 09.2000

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A - Business Information Systems

Walsh College of Accountancy and Business

Bachelor Of Science (B.S - Business Administration

Central Michigan University

Skills

Customer Service and Supportundefined

Software

Salesforce and CRMs

Constant Contact

Microsoft Office Suite

Jira

Asana

Quickbooks

Timeline

Homemaker

Unemployed
01.2022 - Current

Business Quality Assurance Analyst

ForeSee Results
01.2022 - Current

Homemaker

Unemployed
02.2012 - 06.2015

Manager, Quality

RL Polk & Co
09.2009 - 02.2012

Information Technologist, Programmer Analyst

RL Polk & Co
06.2003 - 06.2004

Systems Officer, Senior Programmer Analyst

Bank One
09.2000 - 11.2002

Certification In Holistic Nutrition American Fitness Professionals and Associates -

04.1995 - 09.2000

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A - Business Information Systems

Walsh College of Accountancy and Business

Bachelor Of Science (B.S - Business Administration

Central Michigan University

Wellness Coach, CEO And Owner

Fit, LLC

Lead Information Technologist, Programmer Analyst

RL Polk & Co

Programmer Analyst

Allen Systems Group, ASG
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