Coop is an IT professional with 34 years of experience in Information Technology, Network Engineering & Security, Compliance Auditing and Management, Incident Response, and System Security Engineering. Mr. Cooper has been a consultant to some of the largest retail companies and financial institutions worldwide and has also served as a lead architect, engineer, and liaison for U.S. government and U.S. Air Force organizations. His experience and expertise are both technical and managerial with a focus on e-Commerce, the PCI-Data Security Standard (DSS), payment application assessments, forensics investigations, compliance security assessments, development of secure network architectures, risk management programs, security governance initiatives and managing regulatory compliance. Mr. Cooper is an experienced team leader and IT security expert who can ensure timely and successful completion of projects, as well as an enthusiastic security engineer researching emerging security technologies, trends, and tools.