Schmidt Custom Floors, Inc.

Experience: 20yrs -Athletic Installing, Sanding, Finishing, and Painting
-Sales, Billing, & Customer Support
-Part owner of Jason Thomas Flooring

Awards: “Perfect Attendance” (8 years)

Job Most Proud of: 2010 Final Four Floor Game Floor

Previous Mentionable Jobs: Marquette University Al McGuire Center, BMO Harris, Bradley Center Milwaukee Bucks, Kohl Center, UW-Milwaukee

What Jason does at Schmidt: Jason is the “solution manager” for the Athletic Division at Schmidt Custom Floors. He manages all phases of the sales process. He meets with customers, completes take-offs, bids the projects, handles customer relations, and completes post project interactions. He also cultivates and manages the relationships with managers, customers, and field employees.

Personal

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and Management from Edgewood College

Married with three children- 2 Boys, 1 Girl

Hobbies: Spending time with his children, Playing basketball, Watching sports, & Working out

Best thing about working for Schmidt Custom Floors:

“They are a family oriented business. You are given the space and tools to grow and be successful, which creates a drive to want to do good for the company”

Experience: 33 yrs
– Started at age 12 helping his father do gym floors and residential refinishing
-17 yrs field experience
-Spearheaded Bleach White Floors in the 80’s
-Worked with the Amish on hand scraping in 2011

Awards: NWFA Awards

Job Most Proud of: SC Johnson Museum – “Floor of a lifetime”

Previous Mentionable Jobs: Bartollota’s Rumpus Room – Herringbone

What Tim does at Schmidt: As President of Schmidt Custom Floors, Tim directs the company to be successful by team building, mentoring, and leading by example. He keeps everyone accountable, which pushes each employee to do their very best. He reviews financials and procedures that takes place at the company. Tim is a big part of our customer service, he meets with customers, builders, and general contractors to make sure that the infrastructure is appropriate, giving the customer the best possible experience he can.

Personal

Married with four children- 3 Boys, 1 Girl

Hobbies: Fishing, Hunting, Downhill Skiing, Four Wheeling, Boating, Water Skiing Barefoot, Spending time with his dog, Renovating Old Homes, & Vacationing with family

Experience: 15 yrs -Athletic & Residential- Installing, Sanding, Finishing, and Painting

Awards: “Most Reliable” 2014, “Best Up and Coming” 2013

Job Most Proud of: Marquette University Al McGuire Center

Previous Mentionable Jobs: Sun Prairie Athletic Center, UW-Madison Field House, Waukesha West HS, Waukesha North HS,

What Patrick does at Schmidt: The Estimating Coordinator at Schmidt Custom Floors is responsible for putting together all the front end estimating and preliminary paperwork required for the bidding process. He prepares all bidding packages for estimating to the sales manager.

Personal

Education: Journeyman Card in 2005 from Moraine Park Tech in Carpentry & Engineering Degree from MATC Milwaukee in 2013

Married with one child

Hobbies: Musician- plays guitar, harmonica, & bass, Riding his motorcycle &Outdoor Activities- Hunting, Fishing, Camping

Experience: 18 yrs- Worked for a Home Builder in the Service Department

Awards: “MVP” 2012, “Perfect Attendance” (multiple years)

What Bonnie does at Schmidt: Bonnie works at the front of our building and handles multiple tasks here at Schmidt Custom Floors. She schedules estimates, types pro-posals, answers the phone, handles and schedules a few sales worker’s calendars, files, and gladly helps out everyone by doing anything else that is asked of her.

Personal

Married with two children- 1 Boy, 1 Girl

Hobbies: Spending time with her two grandchildren and one great granddaughter, Watching birds, Sewing & Needle Point, Gardening, Fishing, Reading, and Going to Ceramics Class every Tuesday since 1992.

Experience: Athletic Painting

Job Most Proud of: Marquette University Al McGuire Center

Previous Mentionable Jobs: UW-Madison Field House, Marshall HS, Stanley Boyd HS, Waukesha West HS, Gatorade Commercial, Milwaukee Wave Turf, Northwestern University Weightroom

What Josh does at Schmidt: Josh handles all the renderings for Graphic Creations and Schmidt Athletic Floors. He preps all the files for the cutting machine, operates the cutter, and prepares all the stencils for shipping out to jobs around the United States. When Josh is needed in the field he is a painter for the Athletic Division. Josh also manages the athletic blog and creates all the videos for not only the Athletic Division, but the other divisions at Schmidt as well.

Personal

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Media Design from Wisconsin Lutheran College

Hobbies: Playing Basketball, Fishing, & Watching WWE in his Roman Reigns shirt

Experience: 17 yrs -Athletic Installing, Sanding, Finishing, & Painting
-Residential experience
-Part owner of Jason Thomas Flooring

Awards: “Best Painter” 2012

Job Most Proud of: Marshall HS & 2010 Final Four Floor

Previous Mentionable Jobs: Marquette University Al McGuire Center, Elmhurst College, BMO Harris Bradley Center Milwaukee Bucks, Kohl Center, UW-Milwaukee, Wes Matthews Home Gym

What Ryan does at Schmidt: As a production assistant, Ryan helps with the day-to-day production and works out in the field as needed. His main objective as the Graphic Design Manager is to grow the art of the athletic industry and come up with cutting edge court ideas and designs. He also grows our stencil business and comes up with ways to market our company in the best possible way.

Personal

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design from UW-Milwaukee

Married with two children- 1 Boy, 1 Girl

Hobbies: Spending time with his children, Playing basketball, soccer, volleyball, tennis, Running, Golfing, & Hanging out with friends

Experience: 26 yrs- 12 yrs Installing Commercial & Residential carpet, vinyl, tile, wood-7 yrs tool and dye maker

Awards: “Perfect Attendance” (All four years with company)

Job Most Proud of: Federal Court House

What Mark does at Schmidt: As a salesman for Schmidt Custom Floors in the Commercial division, he takes care of measurements out on jobs, job take offs, getting pricing on materials, negotiating pricing, some estimating, and meeting personally with customers. Mark specializes in carpet, tile, and vinyl.

Personal

Married

Hobbies: Outdoor Activities – Hunting & Fishing

Experience: 23 yrs selling floor covering

Awards: “Highest Recognition of Achievement for Residential-Remodeling Sales” (2001-Present)

Previous Mentionable Jobs: “Job of the Month” May 2015

What Pete does at Schmidt: Pete’s primary responsibility is residential remodeling sales. He meets with customers on a regular basis selling and explaining the products best suitable for their project. He also goes to job sites to measure and complete walkthroughs with clients.

Personal

Education: Marketing Degree from the UW-Milwaukee

Married with one child- 1 Boy

Hobbies: Spending time with family, Going to his son’s football, basketball, & baseball games, Camping, Fishing, & Boating

What Amy does at Schmidt: In the Billing Department, Amy receives all completed job information from the project managers for invoicing. She prepares trust receipts or waivers needed to be sent out in the mail with the invoices and maintenance sheets. She also prepares the daily deposits for checks received, and is in charge of and makes all revisions to invoices.

Personal

Married with two children- 1 Boy, 1 Girl

Hobbies: Family Disney Trips, Going Up North, Bowling, & Getting together with family and friends.

Experience: Factory Outlet Carpets beginning in 1997
-14 yrs at Kerns Carpets

Awards: “Outstanding Customer Service” 2014 & 2015, “Perfect Attendance” 2014 & 2015

What Liana does at Schmidt: Liana is responsible for managing all the scheduling for our customer service technician, Mike. She schedules repairs and warranty work that need his specialized attention.  She answers the phone for the company and directs calls, manages FidBox, distributes and manages the mail, handles lien waivers, authorizes certificates of insurance,  and tracks all call-backs Schmidt receives.

Personal

Married with one child- 1 Girl

Hobbies: Spending time with her family & friends

Experience: 18 yrs in flooring industry
-3 yrs- R.D. Floor
-11 yrs- Began with Residential Installing & Sanding at Schmidt
-4 yrs Customer Service Technician

Job Most Proud of: Tinting the Governor’s Mansion in Madison

What Mike does at Schmidt: Mike takes care of and deals with any of the issues that might come up unexpectedly on jobs. He is known for creating different ways to problem solve any issue out on jobs. He himself comes to the job and makes the repair. He has fixed countless jobs with his repairs preventing what could have been an entire re-sand.

Personal

Married with one child

Hobbies: Bow Hunting, Remodeling, Wood Working, & Taxidermy

Experience: 27 yrs in flooring industry

Awards: “Perfect Attendance”, “Performance Quality”

Job Most Proud of: Meditation Maze- Oshkosh

What Paul does at Schmidt: As the Builder Production Manager at Schmidt Custom Floors, Paul takes care of daily scheduling of the crews for ongoing jobs, takes care of job activities, handles all production for the hardwood jobs of the department, and manages quality control.

Personal

Married with two children- 1 Boy, 1 Girl

Hobbies: Woodworking