John Schmitz

Think it through. Move it forward.Close it clean.

John Schmitz

Where I have Worked

Critical Infrastructure
September 2026 – Present
BHC, a Pape-Dawson Company — Project Manager II
May 2024 – September 2026 · Overland Park, Kansas

Lead site selection, site acquisition, design, permitting, construction oversight, and inspection. At peak, managed twenty direct reports plus another ten resources, including consultants, vendors, and other non-direct reports.

Project types: inspection oversight for long-haul fiber and ILAs; middle-mile design and permitting; huts — site selection, site acquisition, design, permitting, and construction oversight.

BuzzCRS — Operations (contract)
Sep 2023 – Feb 2024 · Shawnee, Kansas

AI conversation review, customer training, support, and account management.

Crown Castle — Construction Manager
2012 – 2023 · Shawnee, Kansas

Ran hundreds of wireless builds across Kansas and Missouri — often 200–500 projects at various stages. Owned schedule, vendors, SOW, risk, closeout, and safety.

OnTAP Designs — Cofounder
2012 – 2014 · Shawnee, Kansas

Mobile apps: myAPPetite (SaaS for restaurants and bars) and Closeout APP. Product, design, QA.

Talascend / Bechtel — Field Coordinator
2010 – 2012 · Minneapolis and New York

Wireless buildouts: constructability, materials, vendors, daily status, closeout QC.

Interstate Tower — Project Manager
2008 – 2009 · Chicago

Project Manager for eighty new site builds, managed crews, bids, budgets, and closeouts.

Positive Networks — National Account Manager
2005 – 2008 · Overland Park, Kansas

Full sales cycle, including Fortune 500 companies. Pre-sold PhoneFactor, later acquired by Microsoft and now part of Azure MFA.

AI Experience

My Travel in Color (Personal Project, Ongoing)

Built and launched My Travel in Color, a public app for mapping travel history — countries, states, counties, roads, flights, cruises, trains, photos, and share/print.

Directed the product in plain language, tested on desktop and mobile, and used an AI agent to inspect the code, add features and APIs, and ship updates. Owned the loop from concept and UX through admin tools, backups, and production fixes.

ProjectFileIt (Personal Project, Ongoing)

Desktop app that sends files to multiple folders and applies project-based naming. Plus even more features that will make life easier. In final testing before publishing.

Redacted (Personal Project, Ongoing)
Launching soon

Using more than a dozen specialized bots to run complete workflows end to end — including quality checks, voting, and token-spend optimization.

AI in company work

Apply AI on client and employer projects to improve efficiency, support ongoing learning, and raise quality — from research and drafting to checks and process improvement.

Education

B.S., Management Information Systems
University of Northern Iowa · Cedar Falls, Iowa

References

I had the pleasure of having John on my team during my tenure as Implementation Manager at Crown Castle. John was and is a consummate professional who was consistently managing multiple construction projects as well as managing his internal task workload for Crown. During the busiest times of wireless build-outs, John managed his dates, crews, customer expectations and system updates perfectly. Every time. After four years of being John’s manager, I recommend him to any company out there looking for a top tier project manager or construction manager. It was a privilege to watch him work!

Sean Flanagan · Implementation Manager, Crown Castle

John was on my team, or partnered with my team, for most of the last 10 years. Throughout that entire time, I found John to be extremely technically astute, safety focused and willing to go the extra mile for the customer. Always inquisitive, John would do “homework” on the build, the sites and the customer in order present the best possible product to the customer. He’s also courageous and willing to ask the questions that need to be asked. John is a very valuable member of any team he’s on.

Paul Schmidt · District Manager, Crown Castle

John was a construction manager for the Wireless build out in Minnesota. He was extreme thorough, accountable, and a big factor in our success. He managed his jobs well. I had planned to promote him to a PM, but we didn’t have enough work for another pm.

Mike Trampetti · Market Manager, Bechtel

John was a great asset to Positive Networks in landing and managing some of our largest accounts. He had a strong work ethic and was regularly the first in the office and the last to leave. While not flashy, John was someone that could be counted on to get the job done. John does what he says he will do and his followup was impeccable.

Evan Conway · SVP Sales, Positive Networks

I always enjoyed working with John. We went on a lot of sales calls together, and he was always professional, personable, and well prepared.

Steve Dispensa · CTO, Positive Networks

John is a detailed orientated Solutions Provider. His knowledge cross' many platforms as well as Project Management. John provided excellent customer support, always provided remediation concerning any issues immediately.

Michael Harwig · Customer

John has 3 traits that stand out: Integrity. Eagerness. Hard Work. When others in his group were slacking, John continued to dig hard, and found great leads.

Anthony Maughan · Sales Engineer, Positive Networks

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