Chad Cooper
Director Of Implementations And Managed Services
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolChad Cooper is a GIS-focused technology leader with over two decades of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and automating ArcGIS Enterprise environments. Currently Director of Implementations and Managed Services at ROK Technologies, he combines systems architecture, Python-driven process automation, and proactive monitoring to keep complex client GIS platforms resilient and performant. His background spans field-level GIS work to enterprise engineering—building geodatabases, custom ArcGIS Server web apps, and data translation pipelines—bringing rare end-to-end operational knowledge. Chad authored Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration and has been published in Esri's ArcUser and Python Magazine, signaling both practical expertise and a commitment to knowledge sharing. He’s equally comfortable firefighting production incidents and architecting forward-looking automation, often turning recurring operational pain points into repeatable tools and processes. Based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he pairs an MS in Geology with a pragmatic engineering approach that bridges domain science and scalable GIS operations.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Geology, B.S., Geology at Mississippi State UniversityM.S., Geology, M.S., Geology at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (22)
webmap7
sql6
python-sphinx6
python6
restructuredtext6
image6
api5
staging4
nodejs4
esri4
rest4
rest-api4
gis3
api-platform2
openstreetmap2
Github contributions (5)
gisinc/tech-blog
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
blog-postspostsstagingincgis
chadcooper/argis-bridging-gis-python
Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 29 days
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