Airlines/Aviation Consultant and Professional, Expert NewSkies Developer.
Greater Salt Lake City Area
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- Owner at Colt Cooper Consulting
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- Senior Solution Consultant at Navitaire
- Senior Software Engineer at L-3 Communications
- Software Engineer at MarketStar
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Colt Cooper’s Summary
I'm a technical freelancer with proficientcies in Navitaire's New Skies platform. I've had years of experience implementing and customizing SkySales and Navitaire-based applications with Airtran, JetBlue, SkyBus, and Spirit.
I also have a growing experience base in Ruby on Rails.
Colt Cooper’s Specialties:
New Skies Platform (Airline Reservation System), Ruby on Rails CMS
Colt Cooper’s Experience
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Owner
Colt Cooper Consulting
(Airlines/Aviation industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Specializing in the implementation and customization of the New Skies platform.
At SkyBus Airlines, I was the principal development and customization expert and was critical in getting them across the finish line to launch.
At Spirit Airlines, I was again in the role of Navitaire expert. I'm valued for my solution-focused philosophy in regards to that reservation system platform. There's not much I can't do with the New Skies API.
I have since created a few NewSkies-related products dealing with managing queues and settings across multiple environments. For more information, please visit my homepage. -
Senior Solution Consultant
Navitaire
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Worked as a professional service consultant to airline clients. Worked on mostly pre-implementation projects and SkySales customization.
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Senior Software Engineer
L-3 Communications
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LLL; Defense & Space industry)
December 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 3 months)
* Developed and maintained an enterprise logistics application comprised of .NET WebForms and Active Server Pages, a custom C# framework, legacy Visual Basic and FoxPro business objects, and a SQL Server database
* Lead developers in iterative, phased projects
* Acted as the team application configuration manager. Maintained a consistent application environment across alpha, beta/staging, and production servers. Ensured that deployments were tested and deployed accurately and followed Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
* Identified and drove initiatives that improved the development process and developer productivity
* Responsible for gathering and creating formal requirements, design, and testing documentation. Assisted in peer-reviewing documents created by team members.
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Software Engineer
MarketStar
(Public Company; Airlines/Aviation industry)
1998 — 2004 (6 years)
Created a number of websites for companies in the retail channel. Was part of the ground-floor CMS development that has since evolved into a wildly successful product for MarketStar.
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