Mark Steinbach
Orlando,FL
Summary
Cru staff member for 44 years including three years of cross-cultural assignments and 33 years of management experience. Accomplished executive director of StoryRunners, adept in turning around operations and spearheading projects across 23 countries, raising $4.1 million in funds. Demonstrated expertise in strategic leadership, analytical thinking and creative project management, significantly enhancing process efficiencies. Highly organized, detail-oriented leader skilled with quick and firm decision-making sills possessing strong communication skills to deliver tangible results.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Director
StoryRunners
09.2014 - Current
- Led a turnaround of ministry with development and implementation of new model for oral Bible story development from two years to five weeks with story sets in 75 languages in 23 countries.
- Provided directive management and oversight to adapt MC2 literate curriculum to a oral Bible story based curriculum.
- Provided directive management and oversight to establish story development teams in seven countries.
- Developed major donor and direct marketing fund development strategy raising $4.1 million including launch of donor advisory council.
- Provided directive management and oversight to establish new branding and messaging.
- Developed design requirements for propriety information management database to track ministry projects.
Operations Director
Jesus Film Project
09.2007 - 09.2009
- Developed and presented annual financial reporting for major donors stakeholders.
- Developed management reporting including annual report, budget analysis, monthly dashboard, cash flow projects and ensure corporate reporting compliance.
- Led effort to research, develop, train and launch financial enterprise software that automatically generated more than 1,200 daily financial reports.
- Provided final management review and amended business unit contracts over $100,000 in conjunction with General Counsel Office.
- Led, supervised and provided strategic direction for workforce of 100 employees.
Jesus Film Master Studio Director
Jesus Film Project
09.1996 - 09.2007
- Led team to produce 1,165 versions of the film JESUS and its associated films (e.g. Story of Jesus for Children) in 860 languages.
- Led creative team to develop concept, content and implementation of headquarters visitor tour.
- Planned and led a three-day team building event for 400 employees at an out-of-state venue.
- Led seasonal telemarketing campaign for 16 years that including developing training materials, training of callers, and managing campaign with a peak involvement of more than 150 calling representatives resulting in contributions of $2.8 million.
- Provided management direction working with engineers to implement in-house media processing and secured $500,000 for technology purchase resulting in $2 million in savings over two years.
- Provided vision and direction working with key engineer to leverage new recording application to streamline one segment of a production process from six months to three days that included securing internal acceptance, setting production requirements, and implementation.
- Directed a project to stream a feature film over the Internet in more than 800 languages working with a key developer to set technical requirements and managed project implementation team.
- Developed a media product supply chain system with 21% annualized growth of shipments to more than 100 countries involving data modeling for inventory application, setting reorder points, vendor management, global shipping logistics, pricing, cash flow projections, and reporting.
Education
MBA - Business Management
Crummer Graduate School of Business
Orlando, FL08.1996
Bachelor of Science - Hotel, Motel, And Restaurant Management
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA03.1980
Skills
- Analytical thinker and ability to summarize complex issues
- Strong leadership and management skills working with experts to deliver quantitative results
- Creative project manager who seeks and executes process improvements in diverse disciplines
- Experienced in fund development with major donors and direct marketing
- Solid people skills working with executives, peers, direct reports, customers and cross-culturally
Timeline
Executive Director
StoryRunners
09.2014 - Current
Operations Director
Jesus Film Project
09.2007 - 09.2009
Jesus Film Master Studio Director
Jesus Film Project
09.1996 - 09.2007
MBA - Business Management
Crummer Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Science - Hotel, Motel, And Restaurant Management
The Pennsylvania State University