Lee Cooper, Pmp, Ckm, Csm, Ckf, Itilv3, Lssgb Email & Phone Number

Global

Experienced instructor in Project Management Certification classes ranging from boot-camp style through full 9 week long fundamental courses. Have taught in government and corporate environment with high success record. Able to leverage experience in various domains and global environments to enhance student understanding of materials.Can develop custom curriculum based on course length and goals. Able to incorporate additional related subject material into course (MS Project, SharePoint, ITILv3, Knowledge Management,Six Sigma) for added value to class.Have taught Introduction to MS SharePoint for Project Managers using 2007 -2010 and Office365 hosted versions of SharePoint.Available for contract assignments globally.

West Gulf Division

Austin, Texas Area

Project Management Professional (PMP)©Provide Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Certification classes. Courses are available online or live classroom instruction at your location. Over 25 years of actual hands on project management experience and over 10 years of teaching both project management fundamentals along with certification courses. Able to leverage experience in various domains and global environments to enhance student understanding of materials. We are not like many companies where the staff got their certification last month and are now opening a “school” to teach.Project Management ConsultingWhile we do not provide full time project managers we are able to assist with various aspects of project planning, documentation and project reviews. With 25 years of project management and PMO level experience across multiple domains in both the Government and Private sectors we can work with your team to ensure proven project management fundamentals are employed on your project.Can develop custom curriculum based on your specific needs.

Serving as the senior elected ARRL representative and manager for the South Texas section, which consists of 97 counties in central and south Texas region. Position represents and coordinates activities for approximately 2500 ARRL members involved in Emergency Communications, Public Service events, Public Information and PR activities. Represent amateur radio volunteers that contribute time, skills and equipment to provide alternate communications when public service, cell phones and other means of communication are lost during large scale disaster events. Work closely with Federal, State, County and Local emcom officials and organizations to coordinate volunteer response as needed. Am member of the State of Texas Division of Emergency Management Communications Coordination Group

Austin, Texas Area

As the Director of Information duties are to ensure that CAPCOG's IT systems are current, reliable and meet the needs of such a diverse organization. Performed GAP analysis to identify gaps in Agency technology. Infrastructure and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery levels along with determining ability to respond effectively Developed a technology roadmap that focused on cloud based solutions to legacy and end of life applications and infrastructure while developing and implementing a viable disaster recovery plan.Implemented a cloud based solution to upgrade email system, MS SharePoint and other Office tools running on end of life and non-supported systems. Moved agency to Microsoft 0365 cloud hosted platform to provide current supported technologies and implement key element in long term business continuity and disaster recovery planning. At same time, it lowered support and maintenance costs.Upgraded the agency financial systems to include online web based timesheet application and hosted financial services, designed to meet need to improve functionality and provide business continuity solution.Developed a comprehensive business continuity plan and disaster recovery planDeveloped formal policies, processes and technical solutions to meet HIPPA requirements placed on us by State grantor agencies. Implemented tools to provide for a secure encrypted environment that meets Federal HIPPA regulations.Implemented change management, patch management and risk management programs.Developed and managed budget for IT expenditures, which could prove to be challenging as sources of revenue came from general funding, grant funding and emergency management collection fees.Negotiated key contracts that provided improved service, better terms and reduced costs for agency.Worked with Homeland Security team to provide improved tools allowing them to better serve constituency and served agencies.

Senior Project Manager for Data Center Services Transformation and Consolidation project. Transferred to sister agency to take charge of Data Center Transformation project. Agency has approximately 200 applications residing on 700 servers.Due to State mandated legislation DSHS is required to move all active application from servers in legacy data centers to consolidated racks of virtualized servers residing in either Austin Data Center or San Angelo Data Center. I have been assigned as the lead PM on this effort

Austin, Texas Area

Program Manager for implementing Messaging and Collaboration efforts for agency. Projects included merging five independent email systems consisting of 60,000 users into on-premise MS Exchange 2007 system located in single forest with follow up project migrating off of on-premise system to MS Office 365 Hosted Exchange2010 platform.Managing development and implementation of roadmap to integrate MS Hosted Sharepoint 2010 and Lync 2010 into integrated Messaging and Collaboration initiative.Project Manager for Enterprise Telecommunications project upgrading 254 PBX systems to leased equipment along with transition to a managed service solution. $53 million dollar multi-year project.Developed agency specific polices to align agency project management concepts and fundamentals to State of Texas Project Delivery Framework (State mandated methodology).Assist Chief Technology Office on coordination of multiple key projects related to technology modernization efforts.Member of Enterprise IT Project Office team, currently reviewing Capability Maturity, PMLC, SDLC initiatives to manage impact on agency IT policy and procedures.Chair of Enterprise wide SharePoint (MOSS) standards and policy development workgroup..

Austin, Texas Area

Supervise team of developers, designers and content managers responsible for internal and external web based applications and sites.Supervise application development of projects using MS SQL server back ends, ASP and ASP.Net, Java, HTML and other languages as appropriate for web based application development. Use MS SQL server or DB2 on mainframe as backend data sources.Develop and manage project implementation plans, requirements definition, scope development resource allocation, risk analysis, quality assurance, project schedules, and project budgets.Domain Chair for agency Enterprise Architecture Committee.Recipient of 2004 GTC Best Application by State Agency award.Project Manager for State Homeland Security Web portal application for Division of Emergency Management (TIMS).Project Manager for the development of new State of Texas Driver License automated testing application (ADLTS). Responsible for ensuring that Security, Content Issues, ADA requirements, etc. are followed and maintained on Web sites / servers.Involved with grant proposal process as relates to IT initiatives to solve business problems, review vendor proposals and negotiate statement of work issues with selected vendors.

Austin, Texas Area

Senior IT Director involved in business planning and decisions. Was instrumental in applying IT to solve business needs.Responsible for all Network, Data, Voice, Internet and Application development for the company.Chair of the Computer Validation committee.Project Manager for efforts to move company to 21CFR Part II complianceTransitioned company from a single Novell network server, Non-email, dial-up Company into a state of the art facility with latest technologies and applications needed to be effective and competitive.Led development and validation of two Laboratory Instrument Management Systems using Visual Basic front end with an Oracle 8i backend to facilitate tracking and management of samples/ client projects. (LabVantage Sapphire LIMS and Watson LIMS).Wrote validation protocols (IQ. OQ, PQ) for laboratory instruments (HPLC, SCIEX and VG systems), Network Systems and applications.Implemented cost savings measures for voice and data while improving services

Austin, Texas; Europe (Germany, Switzerland)

Senior corporate information systems executive responsible for all aspects of Information Technology and facilities management.Chairperson of the North American Information Technology Committee, (Corporate Strategy and Policy planning Committee).Chair of the Computer Validation Team (worldwide) / Meet FDA validation requirements.Developed international team of highly skilled IT professionals to oversee IT operations at each of our locations world wide. Set standards regarding technology and direction in system and application development architecture to ensure common vision and integrated systems.Took company Information Systems from small private but global clinical research firm (BioClin, Inc) through merger with another clinical research firm (DNX) that became Chrysalis International.Developed IS organization to provide a tightly integrated and efficient team providing end user support, infrastructure development and systems development in support of business goals.Managed Development of Lotus Notes based Clinical Project Tracking System for use in multi-national Phase I through Phase IV trials.Wrote SOPs, Protocols and performed validations on Almedica application (Used for Data Management), Paradox based databases and Lotus Notes CPTS (Chrysalis Project Tracking System)Implemented disaster recovery and standardized implementation policies.Ensure that FDA and Clinical SOP mandates are implemented as required.Develop team policy and procedures to meet agency goals as required.

Supervised technical team that supported Desktop and Network services.

Worked in Calibration laboratory doing NIST level calibration of commercial test equipment and avionics test panels used in design, build and manufacture of Bendix avionics.

Field Engineer assigned to work with Saudi Military in Saudi Arabia. Was responsible for training, assisting and supporting their military on all aspects of the HAWK Air Defense missile system.