John Cooper

John Cooper is an enthusiastic and innovative information security professional with over a decade of experience in aligning data loss prevention strategies, threat management, technology solutions, and risk management at major financial institutions.

His expertise includes risk management, application vulnerability assessment and remediation, information security controls assessment, advanced behavioral analysis, insider threat monitoring, data loss prevention, project management, and web application development.

John is currently working on a side project involving leveraging data from the MLB Gameday API using Python, XML, and SQL, and has created a Twitter App to provide real-time updates on home runs in baseball games.

He holds a BA from Wake Forest University and an MS from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

John has held positions such as VP and Operational Risk Consultant at Wells Fargo, VP and Tech Manager - Information Security at Bank of America, AVP and Specialist - Information Security at Bank of America, Programmer / Analyst at AAA Carolinas, Applications Development Intern at AAA Carolinas, Math Teacher - Team Leader at Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, and Store Manager at Blockbuster.