Brendan Schmidt
Implementation Consultant | Product & Operations Strategist
Implementation consultant and product strategist who translates operational needs into scalable systems, workflows, and successful launches. Background spans enterprise technology deployments, pharmacy software implementation, product ownership, regulated operations, and client consulting. Skilled in requirements discovery, cross-functional coordination, technical troubleshooting, user training, quality assurance, and go-live execution.
Open to select opportunities
Corporate experience
- Jun 2026 to Present
Outcomes
Implementation Consultant
- Lead pharmacy software implementations from site readiness and installation through go-live execution
- Prepare sites for deployment across software, hardware, network, and payment dependencies
- Diagnose and resolve technical and environmental blockers, stabilizing sites through early live operation
- Train pharmacy staff and stakeholders on new systems and workflow changes
- Coordinate across client, vendor, and internal teams to keep implementations on schedule
- Assist with the onboarding process and training of both new team members and client pharmacies
- Document risks, requirements, and implementation findings to support clean handoffs and repeatable launches
- Apr 2024 to Jun 2026
Global Payments
Information Technology Field Technician
- Implemented enterprise POS and kiosk systems in live NEXTEP and Xenial environments, domestic and international
- Integrated third-party interfaces, peripheral hardware, and networked devices, validating each site before launch
- Diagnosed and resolved hardware, software, network, and payment issues remotely and on site during deployments
- Trained client staff during go-live windows so locations opened on schedule, ready to operate the new systems
- Collaborated with engineering, support, and account teams to close blockers and feed field findings back
- 100+ Enterprise deployments supported
- 95% First-contact resolution
- May 2022 to Mar 2024
Accenture
Senior Trust & Safety Content Analyst
- Reviewed content for policy compliance at high volume, applying policy consistently across escalated cases
- Led policy communication across the team, clarifying edge cases and aligning reviewers across the NAMER region
- Created a centralized Team Hub consolidating policy and process knowledge into documented procedures
- Mentored and onboarded groups of new hires, bringing new analysts to production accuracy standards
- Supported client-requested projects and escalations alongside production review work
- 98% Policy-review accuracy
- 10 to 15 New hires mentored per group
- Aug 2020 to Apr 2022
Rocket Mortgage
Document Analyst · Mortgage Loan Originator
- Processed mortgage documentation at high volume under regulatory requirements where accuracy affected closings
- Improved team procedures and trained new employees while maintaining accuracy and compliance across loan files
- Guided clients through major financial decisions as a loan originator, building referral relationships
- President's Club level Document volume
Leadership and ventures
- May 2026 to Present
The North
Managing Director
- Lead consulting engagements spanning websites, customer journeys, CRM and workflow design, automation, advertising, payments, and technology implementation
- Translate client business problems into practical technology and workflow solutions
- Lead discovery, solution design, implementation, QA, launch, and ongoing optimization for each engagement
- Pre-launch, launching autumn 2026
HoundStack
Product Owner
- Own product vision, requirements, workflow architecture, and feature prioritization for a pre-launch operations platform serving field-service businesses
- Design workflows spanning client management, scheduling, dispatch, service delivery, billing, payments, reporting, and customer portals
- Translate operational requirements into implementation-ready specifications and conduct QA across interconnected product areas
- Coordinate architecture decisions across authentication, payments, application infrastructure, integrations, and automation
Core capabilities
- Implementation planning and go-live execution
- Requirements discovery and definition
- Workflow and systems design
- Product ownership and feature prioritization
- Technical troubleshooting and launch stabilization
- Stakeholder coordination and user training
- Quality assurance and documentation
- Process improvement and operational optimization
- Clarify the direction
- Design the experience
- Build the system
- Launch it successfully
- Help it grow
Skills
Implementation & Infrastructure
POS and kiosk systems, NEXTEP, Xenial, Networking and TCP/IP, Cloudflare, Vercel
Web & Platforms
WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, WooCommerce, Jobber, HTML, CSS
Product & Data
Supabase, SQL, GitHub
Payments
Stripe, Payment integrations
Growth
Google Ads, Meta Ads
Creative
Photoshop, After Effects
Education
Western Governors University
2022 - Expected 2027Bachelor of Science, Business Administration - Information Technology Management · in progress
Wayne County Community College District
2020 - 2021Associate of Science
Certifications
Google IT Support Professional Certificate
Google
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Open to select opportunities
Working with me
Full-time roles, contract work, project collaboration, speaking, and introductions. This one comes straight to me.
Hiring The North
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