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CHRIS SCHUETT

Chief Operating Officer
Brooklyn,NY
CHRIS SCHUETT

Summary

Focused leader with 12 years of experience finding innovative ways to build teams, grow revenue, increase margins, implement process and systems across every organizational aspect. Offers strategic planning abilities, background in change management and forward-thinking mindset. Ready for challenges and focused on meeting future demands.


Well-versed in managing operations, finance, people, change management and business planning initiatives.

Overview

19
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Little Cinema Digital
Brooklyn, NY

Chief Operating Officer
03.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Reporting to the Co-Founders (CEO & CTO) - managing all non-creative and non-technical functions for the creative agency and digital experience software start-up which delivers in person events, hybrid experiences, virtual screening rooms and creative technology.
  • Guided the organization through the 2.5 years of growth
  • 970% YOY revenue growth period
  • 902% staffing
  • 300% recurring revenue clients
  • Secured 9 net new clients under annual MSA: CBS, ABC, Disney+, Amazon Studios, Nat Geo, WarnerMedia and Netflix
  • Refined organizational structure to consolidate, streamline and delineate necessary functions
  • Implemented and manage the efficacy of over 65+ internal business and project systems: ex: Asana, Miro, Figma, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Dropbox, Justworks, PEX, Procurify and Quickbooks, etc.
  • Created the organizational structure to consolidate, streamline and delineate necessary functions.
  • Developed quarterly business plans and financial models to evaluate cost projections, revenue targets and sales focus of the annual operating budget of $15M+
  • Make large-scale financial decisions and supervised company spending to reduce losses ad maximize profits.
  • Increased margins by 33% and revenues by 970% with cross-selling, price modeling, resource allocation initiatives
  • Establish, institute and update every internal and external facing policy across the company
  • Drove performance initiatives, facilitating 60% revenue increase on digital projects.
  • Increased business profits [Number]% by streamlining processes and trimming unnecessary positions.
  • Implemented [Type] team plan, clarified roles of members and introduced new processes to boost quality across departments.
  • Reengineered departments to establish top-performing groups while decreasing costs by [Number]%.

Self-Employed
New York, NY

Senior Producer, and Project Manager Freelance
05.2008 - 03.2020

Job overview

  • Budget ranges up to $2M+ delivering successful events, activations, product launches and digital campaigns to success.
  • Proven ability to fully own, manage, and deliver high impact, large scale events and projects (B2B/B2C) across diverse brands and markets while meeting and exceeding budget margin goals.
  • Specializing in operations, logistics, and maximizing project and site efficiencies.
  • Experience includes large scale events, live music/entertainment performances, brand activations, festival sponsorship, product launches, premiers, tours, content, and art installations.
  • Clients: Giant Spoon, MKG, Away, Sony, Converse, Netflix, Dolby, Jameson, Havas, Pernod Ricard, Master + Dynamic, Sofar Sounds, La Force, Dolce & Gabbana

White Label Creative
Brooklyn, NY

Strategic Advisor
04.2018 - 03.2019

Job overview

  • On client, project, process and operations to deliver high profile activations from $150K - $300K
  • Cartier: A multi-sensory marketing and PR product launch event
  • LE Miami 2018: Closing Party Event
  • Kevin Barry Fine Art: Launch Event at Art Basel Miami 2018
  • Virgin Voyages: 2020 experience design for flagship Voyages Cruise launch
  • Produced detailed and relevant reports for use in making business decisions.
  • Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
  • Helped leaders understand how to effectively manage [Function], [Function] and [Function].
  • Conducted thorough reviews of operations to devise and deploy improvement strategies.
  • Restructured procedures through coordination with compliance director to create and execute projects.

Imprint Projects
New York, NY

Senior Account Director
12.2018 - 09.2019

Job overview

  • Served as point of contact for clients and met with key accounts to discuss satisfaction with service and resolve conflicts in order to solidify business relationships.
  • Maintained deep understanding of company services and products as well as industry trends in order to develop briefs and present pitches
  • Directed 4 tent pole client projects valued at $3M+ and achieved a 30% minimum margin
  • Determined project budgets, resource allocation, schedules and timelines of deliverables to estimate and control overall project costs.
  • Devised and implemented strategies to create new revenue streams and cut operational costs.
  • Supervised production team of 5

Northside Media
Brooklyn, NY

Production Director
08.2017 - 08.2018

Job overview

  • For public, ticketed, owned and operated events: Northside Festival, SummerScreen, and Taste Talks
  • Manage the client relations life-cycle from opportunity to campaign execution for projects ranging up to $2M+
  • Developed project management processes for the client services team to monitor progress, deliverables, priorities and profitability at minimum 40% margin
  • Collaborated with sales teams by provided strategic and creative input related to executing brand partnerships
  • Oversee all contract negotiation, compliance, legal and client
  • Evaluated all projects for required production resources and feasibility.
  • Standardized production procedures and applied lean workflow to eliminate unnecessary steps
  • Created and regularly updated department work instructions and reports.

Encore Live
Fort Worth, TX

Director of Operations
07.2014 - 07.2015

Job overview


  • Oversaw day-to-day production activities in accordance with business objectives for 200+ national and international experiential events, festivals, concerts, galas and tours
  • Defined, implemented and revised operational and production processes for sales, production, events, design, and marketing teams

Sendero Consulting
Dallas, TX

Project Manager, PMO
01.2016 - 05.2017

Job overview


  • Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines
  • Standardized the project management workflow for an Oracle implementation across 11 work streams and 300 resources
  • Created financial models and dashboards to provide real time management of a capital project budget of $160,000,000+
  • Achieved $3M in project cost saving through an analysis on incomplete contracted deliverables by vendors to client

Education

Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Bachelor of Business Administration from Business Management
08.2008 - 05.2012

Skills

Being the Responsible Adult

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Timeline

Chief Operating Officer

Little Cinema Digital
03.2020 - Current

Senior Account Director

Imprint Projects
12.2018 - 09.2019

Strategic Advisor

White Label Creative
04.2018 - 03.2019

Production Director

Northside Media
08.2017 - 08.2018

Project Manager, PMO

Sendero Consulting
01.2016 - 05.2017

Director of Operations

Encore Live
07.2014 - 07.2015

Texas A&M University

Bachelor of Business Administration from Business Management
08.2008 - 05.2012

Senior Producer, and Project Manager Freelance

Self-Employed
05.2008 - 03.2020

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