Mary Schulz
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** **** ***** **.
City: Springboro
State: OH
Zip: 45066
Country: USA
Phone: 937-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: 60
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Mary Patricia Schulz
155 Wood Creek Ct., Springboro, Ohio 45066
Home: 937-***-****
*********@********.***
Summary
Retirement Industry professional with extensive experience in providing comprehensive technical and administrative services to qualified and non-qualified plans. Customer service driven, and a reliable, effective problem solver unafraid to accept difficult challenges.
Industry Experience
2007 - 2012 General Pension Planning Corporation
Retirement plan consultant tasked with customer service responsibility and technical oversight responsibility of qualified and non-qualified retirement plans with valuations of up to $100 million dollars. Specific duties included, but were not limited to:
Collection and review of Census data
Compliance testing for all clients using available software (TSM, Blaze)
Annual plan valuations, client reporting and tax reporting (5500, SAR, 8895 SSA)
Sponsor and participant contact
Review of all distribution and loan requests, calculating amounts available and vesting
Attendance at trustee meetings and drafting minutes
30 Day Notices for fund changes and other various legally required Notices
Special projects include:
Orchestrating General Pension Planning Corporation`s initial SAS70 II Certification Audit
Implementing the firm`s website
Administrative oversight of a large Taft Hartley plan
1989 - 2007 The Reynolds and Reynolds Company - Retirement Services
Reynolds employed "in-house" administration for all their retirement plans (including defined benefit, defined contribution and non-qualified plans) until 1995 (estimate) when the record keeping function was outsourced to Invesco. My last several years at Reynolds were in a minor supervisory capacity. My responsibilities included, but were not limited to:
Participant communication - enrollment meetings at all locations in the mid-west and east coast, one on one participant counseling, advanced participant presentations on investment education
Processing participant transactions for loans, distributions and fund changes - this involved creating files for submission to the TPA after outsourcing the record keeping function.
Annually worked with actuary and record keeper on all testing and valuations
Served on the Investment Committee and conducted RFP's for an attorney for our Canadian plan and for a switch in TPA from Invesco to JP Morgan and participated in fund searches when current investments failed the Investment Policy Statement for the 401(k) Plan.
Created materials for all Annual Plan Committee reviews and participated in same
Reviewed and processed all QDRO's
Worked with internal programmers on the conversion of HR and payroll systems to incorporate legal changes for the retirement plans
Administered separate formula's for employer and employee contributions (union/non-union) within the 401(k) Plan
Instrumental in the development of a 401(k) plan that achieved "Best Plan in America" recognition from JP Morgan as well as winning a Gold Quill for communications in conjunction with JP Morgan in the design and implementation of the company's enrollment and education materials for the 401(k) Plan
Assigned to a "first-strike" team for numerous acquisitions that included plan terminations and plan mergers
Team Lead with 3 direct reports. Oversaw the day to day work flow and assigned tasks as necessary.
Responsible for providing the department head with information for annual employee reviews
1981 - 1989 First National Bank, Dayton - Trust Department
Clerical and data entry duties in the administration of Employer retirement plans. Reported to multiple supervisors.
Additional Skills and Accomplishments
Proficient in the use of Office Word, Excel and Power Point applications
Trustee for The Reynolds and Reynolds Employee Foundation 2006-2007
Circle of Excellence
Education
2013 - ASPPA - Will sit for the 2nd half of testing for QPA certification
2010 - ASPPA - QKA certification
2006 - Reynolds University - Completed Pacesetters Leadership Training
2005 - University of Phoenix - Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Graduated with Honors
References
Janice Houseman Marshall Esler
The Reynolds and Reynolds Co. Elser & VanderSchaaff Co., LPA
485-2000 298-0008
Kay Younkman Steve Scudder
itelligence Group General Pension Planning Corp
513-***-**** 298-3908