John Schmitz

Experience

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  University of Wyoming

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1998

  Assistant Professor

  Role split teaching (40%) and research (60%). Teaching responsibilities included courses in Agribusiness Management - quantitative decision making, and commodity markets - technical and fundamental price analysis and hedging. Served as academic adviser to undergraduate and graduate students and was thesis adviser to several students. Research contributions focused on advanced quantitative modeling methods to support marketing and price analytics. These efforts resulted in numerous publications as single and co-authored papers in referred journals, as well as industry, extension, and popular press outlets. Show less

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  Auto One Acceptance

  Jun 1998 - Nov 2002

  Director Risk Management / SR. Finanacial Analyst

  Supervised data warehouse updates, new report development, and ad-hoc requests, insuring timeliness and accuracy. Prioritized and managed project requests. Trained and led staff on latest SAS techniques and provided technical lead. Served on acquisition and project management teams. Developed portfolio forecasts and generated stress testing methodologies and structural models for loan delinquency, roll rates, loss, severity and prepayment risk.

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  Arcadia Financial

  Nov 2002 - Sept 2004

  Director Risk Management

  Directed team responsible for static pool loss and economic stress-test forecast development. Provided monthly economic and portfolio performance comparisons to benchmarks. Monitored origination and servicing scorecards and served on team providing oversight of a dedicated score card estimation group.

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  Electronic Clearing House

  Sept 2004 - Jun 2007

  Statistician

  Created and evaluated alternative tools such as rule sets, scoring models, fraud pattern detection and external databases in controlling check acceptance risk in POS transaction processing. Managed risk controls for large scale and high risk national accounts. Teamed with HR to screen and recruit outstanding candidates. Trained and mentored new analysts.

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  Ascend Analytics

  Jun 2007 - Aug 2008

  Director of Credit Risk Management

  Liaison between clients and development teams for design of credit system user interface and reporting. Assessed client’s operational needs for credit monitoring and measurement, generated module design, and led development efforts. Designed and implemented Monte Carlo-based linear programming module for commodity storage operation to establish appropriate management rules and measure economic value.

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  Schmitz Analytic Solutions, LLC

  Aug 2008 - Mar 2010

  President

  Provided all business negotiations, project leadership, and production as an independent consultant and contractor. Collaborated with Senior Executives from various firms to assess business needs and offer solutions through project leadership and hands-on development. Conducted technical presentations on behalf of clients to sales prospects.

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  Speedy Group Holdings Corporation

  Mar 2010 - Jan 2016

  Sr. Business Intelligence Architect | Underwriting / Risk / Fraud Statistician

  Mentor teams throughout the organization with expert SAS/SQL support, data insights, and efficient methods to approach business needs. Establish best practice guidelines and efficiency methods. Manage analytic systems including SAS, SQL, Futrix, and LSF Scheduler. Oversee all SAS batch processing systems. Implement special data projects such as Fraud detection systems and XML parsing solutions. Led SAS programming efforts, including report generation, credit modeling, scorecard development, validation and implementation, fraud prevention, and insightful ad-hoc analytics. Designed early warning systems to detect and notify users of potential system and performance related issues. Establish processes to support new scoring technologies. Managed external relationships with lead generators, scoring vendors, and SAS. Show less

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  Luminare Data LLC

  Jan 2016 - now

  Owner and Sr. Manager

  Establish business process, vision and leadership as a SAS technical consulting service provider. Led design and implementation of a cloud-base health industry data and reporting warehouse. Worked with team to resolve performance issues with SAS/SQL integration using SAS DI Studio.