DAVID J. COOPER
Chief Technology Officer
Senior Consultant
Entrepreneur & Leader
“David has an ability to hit the ground running in any environment”
– Director, Ericsson.
ACHIEVEMENTS
❖ Chief Technology Officer for a Smart City startup serving corporations & public sector institutions.
❖ Senior Product Owner and Tribe Leader at Amadeus. Award winning app with 1.2m users per month. Team of over 150 people. Decreased the time to market and efficiency of rollouts to produce a 38% YOY revenue increase.
❖ Led a team of fifty developers & industry leaders in San Francisco that pioneered the world’s first Semantic Social Relevance Engine that resulted in the patents for the technology being acquired.
❖ Designed & helped produce the first Expedia iPad app that took 15% of European revenue in the first year.
❖ Produced a framework and design processes that led to a reduction of time to market for a whitelabel product by over 500%, and yet increased the number of customisable opportunities for clients.
❖ Single-handedly produced over 200 web sites and eCommerce platforms for small to medium sized global clients.
❖ Installed, configured and maintained a large digital asset mining farm.
❖ Serviced and provided support for National Grid’s most secure headquarters and control rooms.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Technical Consultant
Cheil Worldwide
January 2022 – September 2024
Consulting for Samsung, vr.com, Accentro.
Chief Technology Officer
Story&Story
June 2020 – November 2021
Led a team focused on Smart City technologies for corporate and public sector customers. Duties included oversight and day to day management of the agile team, managing external contractors, project management with clients and stakeholders, as well as designing information architecture for complex systems that also interact with existing city infrastructure.
Co-Founder, CEO
Sacca
September 2019 – June 2020
Founded a team of tech specialists to cater to an international client base requiring consultation and time sensitive problem solving for digital projects. Top talent includes Michael MacKay and Eric Jordan.
Senior Product Manager & Tribe Lead
Amadeus IT
October 2014 – September 2019
Senior Product Owner and Tribe Lead for 5 teams of over 100 people, based in 5 countries. Award winning mobile app reaching 1.2m users per month. I aligned the goals of all stakeholders with the development teams and decreased our time to market and efficiency of rollouts to produce a 38% YOY revenue increase. Stakeholders included developing relationships with 3rd parties and senior management.
Creative Director / PO – Startup
9T
February 2013 – Oct 2014
Founder & UI/UX designer of a semantic social relevance engine. Focused on bringing contextual relevance to a user and their friends, whilst enabling them to become creators. Designed the user experience and user interface, shared in the creation of the vision with Michael MacKay.
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Republic of Software
February 2013 – Present Day Board of Directors
Creative director & consultant for a Californian based company focused on helping start-ups launch in Silicon Valley, by providing digital and marketing, enabling them to get to market effectively.
UX/UI Designer and Founder
Mobile Catalyst
Mar 2013 – July 2013
User interface and usability designer for an iPad App delivering a mobile solution to Adobe’s Business Catalyst platform.
UI/UX Mobile Designer and Developer
Pixell
November 2010 – February 2013
Mobile App usability and interface designer and front-end developer. Created Expedia’s iPad app that produced 15% of Expedia’s annual revenue in its first year. Won Innovation Awards and maintained top travel app in the Apple App Store for consecutive months. Designed and produced more than 15 mobile applications in the space of 2 years for travel companies in Europe and the USA, including Hotels.com, Expedia, Tui, Thomas cook.
Creative Director, Co-Founder
e8creative.com
November 2007 – September 2012
Designer and manager of a web marketing studio based in New Zealand. We produced web sites for small businesses and helped promote local towns in the tourism and travel industry.
Site Lead, Engineer & Script Automation
Marconi-Ericsson
November 2006 – October 2007
Automating the process of many engineers enabled our team of just three engineers to migrate 100,000 devices in under a year. A multitude of roles were undertaken to ensure the smooth running of the deployment of windows XP.
Desktop Support & Deployment Engineer
National Grid Power
November 2005 – November 2006
A multitude of roles included automated script creation, deployment, support, high security cleared control centre support and engineering, amongst others.
Desktop Support Engineer
Pro Active IT
October 2002 – August 2005
Whilst repairing, maintaining and user training, this role provided sufficient time to develop key automating skills. The ability to create scripts that help and improve migration and remote support.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
● Agile & Scrum
● All major Prototyping and design platforms, including Sketch, Adobe Suite
● Advanced knowledge of Agile platforms such as Jira
● Advanced knowledge of Adobe Photoshop (15 years)
● Adobe Creative Suite – Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Audition, Flash
● HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3
● Web Development Framework – Zurb Foundation, Bootstrap
● JavaScript
● CMS systems, including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal
● Advanced knowledge of WordPress and developing against it
● Magento, WooCommerce, Volution and other eCommerce platforms
● Advanced experience with global payment service providers, such as WorldPay, PayPal, Stripe
● Custom eCommerce and Payment infrastructure
● DNS configurations
● Cloudflare and CDN networks
● SSL and secure web protocols
● LAMP and Linux server administration
● Network design and infrastructure
● Installation and support of Windows 2000, 2003, 2007, Linux and Novell 5 Servers
● Installation and Support of Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 Desktop
● Active Directory Administration
● Windows 2003 DNS and Domain Servers
● DHCP, WINS and DNS Setup and fault finding
● Internet Information Service 6
● Aware of ITIL standards
● SMS 2 and 2003 Server
● Office 97 -2016- 365 Support
● Exchange 5.5 Administration and configuration
● Exchange 2003 Administration
● Mail Administration
● Print Server setup
● Working knowledge of Clustering
● Hardware familiarity – Compaq, IBM, Dell Desktops and Laptops
● Working knowledge of most MS desktop applications
● Anti Virus – Sophos, Black Spider, Norton & McAfee
● XHTML, CSS, PHP, XML, PERL, ASP programming languages
● Management and development of MySql databases
● Novell/Netware server and clients
● Lotus Notes server and clients
● Python
● Citrix server farms and clients
● Migration scripting (autoit)
References available on request.
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