Chris Mcmillen Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

• Almanac Media builds deep, authoritative websites around highly monetizable content niches in the career education space. Our flagship website, Nursing Schools Almanac, generates 60,000 site visitors per month. Greater.
• Design, compose, and publish approximately 150 long-form articles annually
• Regularly refresh a 300,000-entry database that dynamically feeds the content
• Conduct outreach with over 4,000 industry contacts to publicize new content
• Use Drupal CMS development to continuously improve publishing efficiency
• Onboard and manage a large client base of direct advertisers

New York, New York, United States

• Continue to assist the firm on an ad hoc basis, with a focus on talent assessment. Sample engagements:
• Lead 25 full-day interview training workshops annually, attended by 30-50 McKinsey consultants apiece
• Designed and hosted a weekly informational webinar with up to 200 McKinsey interview candidates
• Composed case interviews on diverse topics ranging from airlines to insurance to electric vehicles
• Conducted more than 1,200 candidate interviews in the experienced professional recruiting track

New York, New York, United States

• Leader in the North American Payments, Retail Banking, and Strategy Practices. Sample engagements:
• Improved frontline sales effectiveness across 1,000 branch locations for a leading Canadian retail bank
• Redesigned the corporate and retail banking strategies for a North American universal bank to optimize profitability in light of significant balance sheet and funding constraints
• Sized the five-year industry growth in prepaid payments flows and revenue across ten priority markets

New York, New York, United States

• Led teams of 3-10 consultants on a wide range of payments topics. Sample engagements:
• Launched de novo emerging payments division within a global banking conglomerate, including four vertical-specific business plans, consolidated pro forma financials, and pipeline of 35 deal discussions
• Led due diligence assessment of a new secure online payments platform for potential strategic acquirer
• Crafted growth strategy to double the revenue of a top-five global payments provider’s B2B division

New York, New York, United States

• Fulltime member of client service teams providing payments strategy consulting. Sample engagements:
• Launched three new credit card value propositions for a leading US regional bank, and articulated the marketing plan, distribution strategy, and economics required to support rapid and successful rollout
• Developed five-year growth strategy for a global business and remittance payments provider
• Supported organizational and governance merger of two firms in the check and ACH payments space

Melbourne, Florida, United States

• Completed business school summer internship in the Rail Solutions group of GE Transportation:
• Conducted North American market assessment for GE's Hydra-Switch product, an automated railyard switch, by leading on-site operations tours and interviewing key stakeholders at 20+ railyards
• Aligned Hydra-Switch's product enhancements, overall role in the value chain, and promotional messaging with the target market's primary focus on throughput improvement
• Project recommendations were budgeted to double Hydra-Switch sales year-over-year

Foster City, California, United States

• Promoted to senior manager position after one year. Assumed leadership position on the education team:
• Managed two direct reports and a portfolio of 12 for-profit education clients
• Assumed overall P&L responsibility for $12 million in annual revenue, about 20% of the company total
• Named "Marketing Manager of the Year" in August 2003 by vote of 20-person peer group

Foster City, California, United States

• Served as primary client relationship manager in the education vertical:
• Designed marketing campaigns (e.g., banner ads, private-labeled content, paid-search inclusion) that generated students for clients at a 25-40% lower customer acquisition cost than existing channels
• Designed and managed implementation of a database referral technology that generated $1 million annually in incremental revenue

New York, New York, United States

• Fulltime member of client service teams providing tech and media strategy consulting. Sample engagements:
• Identified alternate home delivery model for a consortium of magazine publishers, driving industrywide cost savings of $100 million. Modeled the resulting economics for publishers, USPS, and private freight
• Led first phase of newspaper operations effectiveness study. Managed three-person team that designed benchmarking survey for completion by production, distribution, and IT line managers
• Constructed DCF model for leading iTV services provider to isolate operating drivers of stock price. Identified three near-term improvement levers that would drive double-digit rise in share value

Bachelor Of Arts, Mathematics

Degree awarded Cum Laude in Field Member, Kappa Eta Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity

Mba

Degree awarded with Distinction (top 10% of class) Executive Producer, Special K! Revue