Oliver Schmidt

Managing Director | Cultivating strategic business transformations through people, process, and technology.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

About

Accomplished business transformation leader with 25 years of diverse business experience across functions, technologies, industries, and countries. Focused on helping companies develop and implement strategic people, process, and technology solutions to achieve company objectives. Some examples include: 1. Implementation of two Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials environments to consolidate systems, transform business processes, and meet processing and reporting requirements. 2. Development of Licensing Governance Program to protect company intellectual property and support revenue goals. 3. Establishment of two internal audit and compliance functions to meet and exceed FedRAMP, HITRUST, ISO, PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, SOC 1 & 2 requirements in support of sales initiatives and executive management. Energized by opportunities to work with cross functional teams to solve business problems or achieve company goals. I enjoy applying my diverse experiences to new opportunities while learning new skills in the process. Just ask me about Wagyu beef ranching! Feel free to reach out I love to talk business and network. Audit | Business Process Improvement | Compliance | Enterprise Risk Management | Governance | Project Management | Strategy | Systems Implementation | Workday Financials | Workday HCM | Workday Payroll

Experience

  • Managing Director at Avenue 630
    Dec 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Focused on providing digital transformation services targeted at business process improvement and automation.

  • Kompass Kapital Management, LLC (Full-time · 1 yr 11 mos)
    • Managing Director
      Jan 2022 - Nov 2022 · 11 mos

      Led the business strategy and operationalization of Wagyu beef production startup including breeding, feeding, and processing operations.

    • Chief Operating Officer
      Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr

      Led the Facilities, Marketing, People Services, and Systems teams delivering business services to our operating companies.

  • Managing Director at Avenue 630
    Oct 2020 - Dec 2020 · 3 mos

    Lead the completion of Kompass Kapital's Workday Financial, HCM, and Payroll implementation.

  • QTS Data Centers (On-site)
    • VP Business Support Systems
      Mar 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Responsible for business systems support including Salesforce (Sales Cloud, CPQ, and Service Cloud), Workday Financials (Core Financials, Expenses, Procurement, Projects, Revenue Management), Workday HCM (Absence, Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Core HR, Learning, Payroll US, Performance Management, Recruiting, Succession Planning, Time Tracking), Adaptive Insights, Box, and SharePoint. Led consolidation of 15 disparate business systems through implementation of Adaptive Insights, Workday HCM and Workday Financials.

    • Chief Audit & Compliance Executive
      Jan 2015 - Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Build out internal audit and compliance teams and related programs. Implemented Sarbanes-Oxley 404, ISO 27001:2013, HITRUST, and NIST SP 800-53 rev 4 for data centers. Responsible for annual audit planning, enterprise risk management, internal audit execution, and ongoing SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001:2013, HITRUST, and FedRAMP compliance.

  • Managing Director at Avenue 630
    May 2013 - Jan 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Founder of Avenue 630 a consulting firm specializing in licensing services for Licensors and Licensees of intellectual property.