AJAE CONSULTING LTD
"Building better organizations one successful project at a time”
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AJAE Consulting Ltd. is Robert Schulz BSc., PMP(2002), PMI-PBA(2019).
Robert is an independent Project Management and Business-Analyst Consultant who primarily serves the natural resource industries in British Columbia, Alberta, and the US Pacific Northwest.
My services with technologies include project management, business process engineering, and system selections, upgrades and deployments.
Business Solutions
Do you have a business performance problem that you need help with finding or implementing a solution?
Business Analysis
Could your team benefit from expert help translating requirements into software design?
Project Management
Do you need a steady hand on the wheel to deliver an important project?
Support
I will happily meet with you for a day at no cost to discuss your needs.
Consulting Services
My objective is to become your preferred technical advisor—a status earned through hard work and results. I look forward to putting my skills and expertise to work for you on your next project.
- “Understanding the Problem, Defining the Solution”.
- "Project Planning & Execution".
- “Support and Sustainment”.
Forest Industry
The majority of my projects have been focused on improving operations and lowering costs in the forest industry in BC, Alberta, Washington State and California
- Woodlands and Timber Management.
- Wood Fibre Supply.
- Sawmill, Pulp and Paper Maintenance Operations
- Back-office (ERP, Finance and Safety systems)
Information Technology Operations
From 2021 to 2024, I served as the Senior Director of IT at Interfor Corporation. Post covid and during the greatest expansion of the company from 18 sawmills to 44; this was an extraordinary time to work in IT with a team of 76 super-hard-working IT professionals across North America. During my total 6 year tenure at Interfor beginning in 2018, I also led a 5-year dgital transformation journey to consolidate enterprise applications for Finance, Sales, Maintenance, Safety, and Log Procurement. In addition to applications, as Senior Director, I oversaw transformations in infrastructure to improve the reliability and security of networks, servers, and communications.Aerospace
From 2012 - 2014, I stepped out of my comfort zone in IT projects and served as the Program Manager for the Design, Development, and Certification of the RJ85 Next Generation Airtanker. The program was the most complex engineering and certification program undertaken by the Conair Group in their 40 year history. I was privileged to be selected to lead this extraordinary effort. While the program seamed to have more risk events than one could possibly anticipate, the air tanker program successfully delivered three certified aircraft and the company went on to build four more.
I wrote a book about the project. Purchase your copy the Friesen bookstore. It's a good rainy Sunday afternoon read.
https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000400732675/Rob-Schulz-All-At-Max
Mining
I worked with a mining company since January 2004 and have designed and implemented a multi-year information technology strategy to improve back-office IT infrastructure and information sharing business processes in preparation for expanded operations.
Municipal Government
I prepared a GIS Strategic plan for a local municipality. The strategic plan involved assessing current technology and business processes to achieve the goal of streamlining, standardizing and improving service levels
Transportation
I assisted a trucking firm with their replacement of a trucking management software system. The project involved documenting requirements, selecting the right vendor and managing the implementation of the software. The new platform has enabled the company to further leverage additional technology solutions for mobile truck management.
Working in the United States of America
I am permitted to work in the United States using a TN-Visa classification as a Computer Systems Analyst.This Visa allows me to serve my clients in a number of capacities including:
- Business Analysis and Requirements Definition
- Design including software, reports, and maps
- Testing
- Training including training plan development, materials preparation, and delivery
- Strategic consulting, workshop faciliation
Testimonials
Over the past 2 years Rob has been working with TimberWest on the replacement of its legacy log inventory and control system. This has been an extensive process including company wide requirements gathering, a thorough market survey and RFI process during the evaluation & selection phase, and 14 month implementation project. Rob played a leadership role throughout the evaluation & selection phase, and his deep experience in this area ensured that a comprehensive requirements document and RFI was produced. After the vendor was selected, Rob was contracted as the Project Manager and has worked effectively within the TimberWest stakeholder group, with the vendor, and with the project steering committee. Rob’s experience and adherence to proven project management principles have ensured that the project is well positioned for a successful deployment. Under Rob’s continued leadership, TimberWest looks forward to the smooth stabilization of our most vital information system.
Green Diamond Resource Company has utilized Rob over the past 5 years as a key part of our project team to review, design and implement a company-wide set of standardized processes and business systems to manage our timberlands. Rob’s breadth of forestry knowledge generated a strong sense of credibility among our users. This credibility, together with Rob’s superior facilitation skills created an extremely effective environment for bringing our team together to design, test and implement new processes and business systems.
As one of North America’s largest forestry companies, Canfor continues to grow and rely on technology as a critical tool in meeting the challenges of our ever-changing business environment. For more than 5 years, in meeting these challenges, Canfor has relied on Rob numerous times for assistance with information technology related projects and initiatives. Rob’s personality, straight forward approach; coupled with strong project management skills and ability to mesh business requirements and technology solutions has worked extremely well in our organization. We would not hesitate to call on Rob in the future should the need arise.