
Helping Professionals, Jobseekers & Entrepreneurs by Writing World-Class Resumes, Business Plans & Proposals
Greater New Orleans Area

Helping Professionals, Jobseekers & Entrepreneurs by Writing World-Class Resumes, Business Plans & Proposals
Greater New Orleans Area
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Goal: To help business professionals, executives, and professionals attain their goals and dreams through creating powerfully worded, concisely written, well-researched, and attractively formatted resumes, business plans, letters, proposals, presentations, and other materials.
Strategic Resumes® has recently (2007) been ranked as the #3 online résumé provider in the U.S., and is the only résumé writing firm recommended by the award-winning national website, CollegeGrad.com and the book, The College Grad Job Hunter, available in all Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores nationwide.
Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, Strategic Résumés provides a nationwide custom-written résumé, career services, job search skills training, and business document writing service, with a 14,000+ resume database representing clients in virtually all career fields, and has operated continuously since 1994. In addition to résumés, Mr. Cooper designs and writes websites, business plans, proposals, presentations, marketing materials, and other business documents.
Recent examples of clients have included the CEO of a $2 billion company, the President of Louisiana’s #1 per capita income Parish, NFL football players, as well as physicians, bankers, police officers, scientists, professors, intelligence agents, politicians, engineers, executives, white and blue collar employees, nurses, attorneys, students, and accountants. Perform extensive community service with dozens of community service organizations.
resume writing, business plan writing, technical writing, speech writing, proposal writing, article writing, website content writing, design of presentations, career coaching, business coaching
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
June 1994 — Present (14 years 4 months)
Manage operations, sales, marketing, promotions, product development, and customer relations. Hire, train, and supervise Technical Writers. Oversee QC, IT, CRM, and Strategic Alliances. Maintain database of 15,000+ resumes and business plans.
• Successfully built business from concept to national implementation in hundreds of Kinko’s® branch locations throughout 14 states.
• Traveled to numerous regional and national meetings and conferences to launch the Strategic Résumé program, including San Diego, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, Colorado Springs, Houston, Jackson, Mobile, Shreveport, Lafayette, Alexandria, Monroe, Hattiesburg, and Baton Rouge.
• Selected as Speaker, Seminar Presenter, and Panelist at several national conferences up to and including 2007 CDI National Conference.
• RANKED #3 in U.S. by independent consumer panel. Go to this URL for confirmation: http://onlinesitereviews.com/resume-writers/
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
June 1994 — Present (14 years 4 months)
Write and edit resumes, business plans, marketing proposals, brochures, bank loan requests, non-profit organization plans, grant requests, speeches, graduate school application materials, and various other writing projects. Utilize desktop publishing, word processing, and laser printing to produce finished documents. Provide resume instructional seminars, conduct in-depth resume critiques for clients, and meet with clients for comprehensive career assessments and job search strategy sessions.
• Negotiated successful purchase of business in 1994 and increased revenues by over 200% within six months.
• Received recognition for volunteering as Orleans Parish “Project Independence” Career Counselor, delivering workshops to single mothers in the AFDC (welfare) program; spoke on career search strategies and interview techniques; donated free customized resumes to all participants.
Master of Public Administration 1985 — 1988
Completed 12 semester hours of credit in postgraduate courses in Business Administration, Public Administration, Labor Relations, Management Information Systems, Management, and Supervision at Golden Gate and San Jose State Consortium.
Received perfect (4.0) grades in all graduate courses.
Law School 1974 — 1976
Successfully completed 59 hours coursework in Louisiana and Federal law (90 hours required for Juris Doctor degree).
Awarded early pre-law admission status after completion of Junior undergraduate year due to outstanding GPA and LSAT scores.
Participated in organization of Louisiana State University School of Law projects at the youth reformatory in Scotlandville and the state penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana for the volunteer and educational purposes.
Bachelor of Arts, Pre-Political Science, 1971 — 1974
Organized Natural Foods Co-Op with 30+ members
Organized Non-Academic Employee Union Election through AFL-CIO
Participated in Extracurricular Basketball, Handball & Racquetball
Participated in McGovern for President Campaign
fishing, racquetball, basketball, ping-pong / table tennis, politics, youth recreation programs, speechwriting, parenting, paleontology, dinosaurs, anthropology, cosmology, science, education
Elected President, Board of Directors, Audubon Riverside Neighborhood Association, 2005-2006
Certified Advanced Resume Writer, Career Directors International
American Red Cross Contract Writer during Hurricane Katrina at the ARC Headquarters, Washington, D.C., Fall 2005
Featured with color photograph in Sunday, July 2, 2006 edition, New Orleans Times-Picayune
MC / Host of two 2006 Mayoral & City Council Election Forums / Debates covered by local and national press with celebrity moderator and all candidates represented.
Selected by the New Orleans Saints NFL franchise as one of 20 Charter Board Members (out of a pool of 500 candidates), to serve on the New Orleans Saints Fans Advisory Board for a 5-year term.
Southwide High School Organizer for Southern Student Organizing Committee, Business Networking International Member, Entrepreneur Network, LinkedIn
Conceived and designed the resume industry’s first “You Talk, We Write” toll-free telephone interview process with streamlined resume production process to deliver the first national résumé system with personal telephone interview and 24-hour turnaround.
Received “Strategic Alliance” Partner/Award from 21st Century Résumés (nation’s largest military and Federal resume provider).
Personally negotiated with OfficeMax national representatives in Cleveland (3 trips in 1 year), accomplishing agreement for nationwide rollout of new products and services. Additionally, established initial contacts with Staples, Office Depot, and Mail Boxes, Etc. national headquarters for proposal development.
Awarded Kinko’s Corporate Training recognition for planning and presenting product seminars for employees at the “Kinko’s Synergy” National Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Worked with Univ. of New Orleans and Loyola Univ. Small Business Development Centers to generate marketing studies.