Patty Cooper

About Patty Cooper

Accomplished and experienced strategic, global operations and project manager. Demonstrated ability to create effective and optimized workflow systems that foster innovation, collaboration, customer satisfaction, team engagement, cost reduction, and increase productivity. Creative solutions generator, with a passion for customer service, who is committed to the success of the team and the business. Collaborative leader with a proven track record of building trusted advisor relationships with key business stakeholders and negotiating and managing global vendors. CORE COMPETENCIES • Operations Management • Process Improvement • Vendor Management • Event Management • Training Design • Cost Reduction • Logistics Management • Strategy Development • Team Building

Experience

1. Project Manager

   FOX Sports

   Mar 2017 — Present

   Currently planning the 2021 NFL Season and modifying pandemic protocols to ensure continued broadcast operations and crew safety• Co-Led effort to design a workflow system to transform the FOX Sports Logistics and Operations event management process for Field Operations: streamlining 5 teams from 5 disparate systems to a Smartsheet and G Drive workflow, reducing combined labor across all teams by at least 22 hours/week, yielding appreciable cost savings, improving weekly communication to 600 employees and increasing accuracy and collaboration, and is now being replicated across other Fox Sports properties• Served as Workflow Lead and executed changes to enable continued operations in response to the pandemic and enable business continuity for the NFL, Thursday Night Football and NASCAR• Onsite Operations Manager for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, 2020 NFC Championship San Francisco, and 2020 Super Bowl LIV Miami resulting in our ability to resolve all human capital related issues for 600 - crew and vendors• Contributing member of the development team for the FOX Sports Events Portal to safely capture crew Personal Identifiable Information and a mobile app built on the Salesforce platform to monitor crew movements in-country for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia• Managed the visa process for over 600 U.S, International and Russian crew for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia • Oversaw the planning, logistics and negotiations for the execution of multiple internal leadership and celebratory events in Russia during the 2018 FIFA World Cup• On-boarded and trained 10-15 vendors into the Fox workflow system to optimize the tracking of vendor travel and logistics• Coached and mentored direct report resulting in him receiving excellent feedback and given expanded responsibilities

Education

• The Embodied Wisdom Institute

  The Art of Leadership Mastery, Leadership

  2016 — 2017

• Virginia Commonwealth University

  Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Visual and Performing Arts

  1987 — 1991

• Newfield Network

  NCC Newfield Certified Coach, Ontological Coaching

  2015 — 2016