Grant Cooper

Current

• Vice President / Human Resources at ZATS Restaurants, Inc.
• President / CEO at Strategic Resumes (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Certified Resume Writer at CareerPro Resume Svc, LLC
• Production / Marketing Coordinator at Alfalfa Omega, Ltd.
• Division Sales Manager at Pacesetter Home Improvement

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Education

• Golden Gate University
• Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center
• Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

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Recommended

29 people have recommended Grant

Connections

188 connections

Industry

Human Resources

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Grant Cooper’s Summary

Mr. Cooper is a senior Human Resources executive who currently serves as VP/HR for a multi-state, full-service casual dining restaurant chain rollout with 26 units planned for opening within a 6-year window.

Mr. Cooper's personal businesses (Strategic Resumes & CareerPro Resume Service) 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 been ranked as the #3 online résumé provider in the U.S., and is the only resume 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 Resumes provides a nationwide custom-written resume, career services, job search skills training, and business document writing service, with a 15,000+ resume database representing clients in virtually all career fields, and has operated continuously since 1994. In addition to resumes, Mr. Cooper designs and writes websites, HR manuals, 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.

Grant Cooper’s Specialties:

human resources, restaurant management, corporate executive management, resume writing, business plan writing, technical writing, speech writing, proposal writing, article writing, website content writing, design of presentations, career coaching, business coaching, HR management

Grant Cooper’s Experience

• Vice President / Human Resources

  ZATS Restaurants, Inc.

  (Restaurants industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  ZATS Restaurants Inc. is a New Orleans, Louisiana based casual dining restaurant company currently working toward a national chain rollout, with the first operating unit planned to open in Fall 2009. Prominent Board & Advisory members include Chef John Folse, Chef Paul Prudhomme, and Chef (&CEO) Keith H. Keogh. ZATS is planning on a launch of up to 26 restaurants, each with seating for 344 guests. ZATS is a start-up restaurant corporation bringing an authentic, full-flavored Louisiana dining experience to its guests. Currently ZATS is building its first several restaurants in Louisiana with future restaurants across the Gulf Coast I-10 corridor and then throughout the United States. ZATS will base its rollout on factors including product distribution centers, income and age demographics, and traffic pattern and flow. As VP/HR, duties include hiring corporate headquarters staff as well as approximately 90 full and part-time staff for the first 26 restaurants over a 6-year period. Develop and execute all recruitment, training, workplace procedures, payroll, benefits administration, staffing, retention, discipline, motivation, incentives, AA/EEO, safety, management development, regulatory requirements, and personnel administration. Additionally serve on the Founding Executive Team, assist in capital raise, participate in special projects, and report directly to the CFO.

• President / CEO

  Strategic Resumes (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  June 1994 — Present (15 years 6 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/

Grant Cooper’s Education

• Golden Gate University

  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.

• Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center

  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.

  Activities and Societies:

  Completed both semesters (Briefs & Oral Arguments) of Moot Court.

• Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

  Bachelor of Arts , Pre-Law, 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

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society
  Phi Beta Kappa Nominee
  Dean's List 1973-1974

Additional Information

Grant Cooper’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Grant Cooper’s Interests:

fishing, racquetball, basketball, ping-pong / table tennis, politics, youth recreation programs, speechwriting, parenting, paleontology, dinosaurs, anthropology, cosmology, science, education

Grant Cooper’s Groups:

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

•    CareerLink Network
•    Executive Suite
•    Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
•    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
•    Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
•    Business 3.0™
•    Human Resource Executive Association
•    H.R. Professionals
•    Career Directors International
•    JibberJobber - Career Management
•    Human Resources Managers Association of New Orleans
•    LSU Alumni Geaux Networking Society
•    LSU Alumni Association
•    BNI New Orleans Founders Chapter
•    Quintilian - Speechwriters Group
•    Fans of LSU Football
•    Geaux Tigers
•    LSU Open Networkers
•    National Restaurant Association Professionals
•    VisualCV
•    Strategic Resumes LinkGroup
•    Restaurant Chain Executives
•    Louisiana BNI
•    Friends of Chain Leader
•    Resume Your Life

Grant Cooper’s Honors:

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.

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