Stuart, I wish I could clone you.
Manager, Electronic Publishing Department
Stuart Millman, Co-Founder and COO
Contact Info
Phone: 415-518-8565
Email: stuart@whizdom.com
OVERVIEW
Stuart Millman, COO, is a seasoned business professional and hands-on problem solver with a wide range of experience across a spectrum of business disciplines. His wide-ranging career spans working for small businesses, startups, multinational corporations and the U.S. federal government.
experience
Stuart brings WHIZDOM and its Clients decades of cross-functional, multi-industry experience from working for a range of Clients on myriad projects.
Sample Projects
- Reviewed and edited the content of a business plan for a company offering a web-based disaster planning and emergency preparedness tool submitted to a small business competition and recommended changes to the company’s CEO to improve the document
- Researched the use of wireless handheld devices in hospitals and other medical facilities for a major wireless handset manufacturer. The submitted report was determined to be so informative that the company decided to turn it into a sales tool its sales team could use when calling on prospective customers in the healthcare industry.
- Successfully completed development of a complex multilingual (English, Spanish and Portuguese) PowerPoint-based sales presentation for a major electronics manufacturer when the project manager suddenly quit the company
- Designed, developed and produced a set of international travel guides for an independent publisher; Developed marketing materials for selling the guides to consumers and to sales channel partners
- Conducted R&D and prototyping for an algorithm-driven, modular, business simulation system for corporate executives to enable them to make better business decisions and understand the consequence of their business decisions
expertise
Areas of Expertise
- Project Management: Determine schedules, timelines, milestones
- Small business management
- Problem solving
- Contracts development
- Proposal development; Scoping out projects
- Sales tools, sales training materials development
- Sales and marketing collateral development
- Website development
- Business plan development
- Information management
- Business research
- Presentations development
- Sales lead generation
- Research and analyze business processes
founding whizdom
Stuart joined WHIZDOM to lead its product development for developing a business simulation system to enable executives to understand the financial consequences of business decisions.
before whizdom
Prior to joining WHIZDOM, Stuart owned a desktop publishing company and provided services to corporations, marketing firms and advertising agencies across Chicagoland.
Stuart is a former Patent Examiner with the U.S. Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office. (Registered Patent Agent No. 33,095)
education
Stuart holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois — Urbana.