He was dean of St. George's College, Jerusalem, and residentiary canon of St. George's Cathedral from 1994 to 1995; a fellow of the American Council on Education and special assistant to the president and provost of La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1995 to 1996; canon educator, director of programs in spirituality and religious education, and acting program director at Washington National Cathedral from 1997 to 2000; and director of spiritual formation and Anglican studies as well associate professor of Christian spirituality at Perkins School of Theology.
[2] Schmidt served as the Rueben P. Job Chair in Spiritual Formation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, from 2012 to 2020.
He served as an assisting priest at St. Andrews, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (1993-1994); All Saints, Hershey, Pennsylvania (1995-1996); as a transition consultant at St. Luke's, Dallas, Texas, (2003-2004); as a teaching associate at Church of the Incarnation (2004-2008); as an assisting priest at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois (2016-2019); and assumed his responsibilities as vice rector at Good Shepherd, Brentwood, Tennessee, in 2020.
In addition to his work in the church and the academy, Schmidt has maintained an active interest in patient safety and the ethical issues associated with human trials.
He contributed multiple entries to The Anchor Bible Dictionary (Doubleday, 1992) and an article on theological education in Canonical Theism, edited by William J. Abraham, Natalie Van Kirk and Jason Vickers (Eerdmans, 2008).