“Stuart, I wish I could clone you.”
Manager, Electronic Publishing Department
Motorola University, Motorola, Inc.
About Stuart Millman
Bring passion, commitment and excellence to every Client, every project, every time. Provide high-quality, high-value business services that exceed Client expectations and enable them to successfully achieve their goals and objectives.
Stuart Millman is a seasoned business professional with over 25 years of business experience as a hands-on problem solver with a wide range of experience across a spectrum of business disciplines.
Stuart has a history of success working on myriad projects for a wide range of companies and has the expertise to manage and execute projects in and between corporate functional groups including sales, marketing, legal, product development and R&D departments.
Stuart brings passion, commitment and excellence to every Client project and has a unique ability to engage both his analytical, logical, left-brain as well as his creative, imaginative, innovative, right-brain to solve business problems and overcome business challenges. He has a unique set of skills and helps companies succeed in a challenging, competitive, ever-changing, complex business climate.
Stuart holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana.
Originally from Chicago, Stuart is currently based in Silicon Valley.
Companies Turn To Stuart Millman When They…
- Need a talented, hands-on, skilled professional to augment internal project teams to manage, execute and complete critical projects, programs and initiatives
- Face bottlenecks or unanticipated challenges that affect their ability to complete business projects on time
- Wish to complete more projects without adding additional headcount
Companies Retain Stuart Because He…
- Brings passion, commitment and excellence to every Client, every project, every time.
- Is a passionate innovative, hands-on business professional with exceptional problem-solving skills who continually strives for excellence
- Is equally successful as both a contributor to project teams and as an individual contributor
- Is willing to go above and beyond and do whatever it takes to complete Client projects
- Has strong leadership skills
- Is a fast-learner, a self-starter and an intelligent, competent, cross-functional, multidisciplinary, experienced business professional
- Serves the needs of CEOs, sales teams, marketing teams, product managers, business managers and executives
- Has a unique set of business skills (See Skills Overview and detailed List Of Skills By Discipline.)
Deep And Wide-ranging Business Experience
Stuart has a wide range of business experience having worked on a number of projects and assignments both directly and indirectly for all type of companies and organizations including working as a:
- Patent Examiner for the Federal Government at the U.S. Department of Commerce — Patent and Trademark Office; and
- Contributing team member working on projects for Fortune 500 corporations (e.g., Motorola, Palm, Adobe); and
- Member of the management team of a boutique consulting company serving the needs of technology companies in Silicon Valley; and
- Owner and founder of a small business providing a range of business services including desktop publishing, computer consulting, sales and marketing support and business management consulting to Clients across Chicagoland and benefiting end-customers across many industries and ranging in size from small businesses to Fortune 500 global corporations. (See Desktop Publishing Client List for Clients and end-customers.)
(See additional details about Stuart’s background on the Experience page.)
Stuart is a strong believer in life-long learning. He seeks to continually discover new information, new ideas, new business models and other business-related know-how to better serve Client needs.
- PARC Forums (Palo Alto Research Center) (frequently attend to learn about emerging technology)
- Stanford University Continuing Studies: Creating Effective Customer Acquisition Strategies
- Business plan writing seminar from SCORE
- Continuing studies class at community college on Understanding Patents
- Seminar from Etherton Law Group: Let’s Talk Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights
- Regularly attends conferences and trade shows (e.g., Macworld Expo, Digital Signage Expo, Streaming Media Expo)
- Regularly reviews business periodicals, websites and other sources of business information to continually stay abreast of new business ideas, business trends, emerging technology and other significant changes in the business climate
Philosophy, Approach & Methodology
- Constantly strive for excellence
- Don’t be content with simply doing the work. Instead, continually strive to exceed Client expectations
- Keep in mind this order of importance: Customer, Company, Team, Self
- Competence
- Efficiency
- Excellence
- Integrity
- Lifelong learning
- Loyalty
- Objectivity
- Quality
- Respectful
- Trustworthy
- Attention to detail
- Calm under pressure
- Common sense
- Courteous
- Creative
- Decisive
- Diligent
- Enthusiastic
- Entrepreneurial
- Experienced
- Good listener
- Highly-organized
- Imaginative
- Indefatigable
- Innovative
- Inquisitive
- Insightful
- Intellectually curious
- Intelligent
- Intuitive
- Learns from mistakes
- Optimistic
- Passionate
- Persistent
- Practical
- Professional
- Resourceful
- Self-confident
- Strong work ethic
- Tactful and diplomatic
- Talented
Contact Stuart today to discuss ways he can help you complete your Company’s projects.