Benjamin Cooper Email & Phone Number

United States

Remote (National)

I manage Starry’s Vertical Asset network expansion in Washington DC, New York City, Boston, and Columbus.

Washington, DC, United States

Scaled site acquisition in the DC area, delivering new Starry Beam sites on time and increasing network coverage by over six figures of households. Expanded my skills and responsibilities by proactively pursuing cross-training opportunities, taking on solutions engineering for customer buildings and managing aspects of radio frequency and electrical.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Orchestrated the acquisition, design, bidding, and deployment of all new Starry Beam sites, boosting local line-of-sight internet coverage.Led the internal transition to a new data management system (OneVizion), enabling a 45% increase in internal site approvals in one year with a third of the staff previously required.Independently developed a Python file.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Produced 2 music videos and album cover photography for a Grammy-nominated project.Photographed and directed music videos for 4 Grammy-winning clients.Directed and edited B2C and B2B commercials for multi-million dollar businesses.Portfolio:http://www.benjicooper.com/

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Provided daily project support to customers and design clients in English and Spanish.Project managed multiple 6-figure design projects.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Co-managed a multi-million dollar project for Duke University Hospital to relaunch their pharmacy system.Worked side by side with client teams, preparing them to lead and manage change after their implementation.Created informational internal process documents regarding the transposition of Epic software for use in the United Kingdom.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provided operational and technical support to the Digital Resource Center and Idea Lab.Redesigned equipment checkout protocol with new software, a website and 3D-printed barcode tags.Supported the highest-priority campus events with audio/video services and support.Promoted from General Lab Assistant to Student Manager (’16), to manage staff and 3D.

Led the SI program for Dr. Randy Daughters’ Cell Biology Class.Attended all class sessions to gauge progress and appropriately design weekly review sessions, presentations and group activities.Held weekly office hours to personally assist students with questions.

Costa Rica

Organised international travel plans for two high school groups of 12 students each by communicating with local contacts, the company office and making informed decisions with a co-leader.Provided 24/7 care for the students including coordinating group-cooked meals, transportation, medications, managing 5-figure budgets and daily activities.Completed.

Greater New York City Area

Redesigned pressure sensor equipment to be more interchangeable.Reduced electrical noise by a factor of 10 in the lab’s recording room.Wrote a script to automate optical coherence tomography recordings between 2 computers for another laboratory.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Conducted chemical analysis of non-platinum fuel cell catalysts for the product development team.Repaired multiple analysis machines, saving tens of thousands of dollars in replacement costs.

Loma Linda, California

Developed six graphical user interfaces (GUIs) from scratch to simplify and accelerate experiments. Dr. Wei Dong's cochlear mechanics research improves clinical diagnoses and the design of assistive-listening devices.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Wrote a literature review about the connections of MT and their effects on visual motion processing. This review helped identify areas of interest to direct research towards in the lab's future.Trained and practiced non-human primate care and psychophysics experimentation.

Conducted independent electrophysiological research into the desensitisation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in honeybee neurons, under a Nuffield Foundation research program.Expanded the project into an A-grade Extended Project Qualification at sixth-form college.

Accelerated work-flow by creating and redesigning digital editing protocols.

Bachelor’S Degree, Biology

Activities and Societies: Beta Beta Beta: National Biological Honor Society, Jazz/Pop Combos, Climbing Club, Outing Club+ Study Abroad.

General Certificate Of Education: Advanced Level (Gce A-Level), Biology, Physics, Music, Electrophysiology Epq, Business Studies

Activities and Societies: Advanced Graduate Program, Jazz/Pop combo bands, Robotics clubStudied Biology, Physics, Neuroscience, Music.

General Certificate Of Secondary Education (Gcse)