The Cooksey Group (TCG)

The TCG organization, lead by Managing Partner Charles T. Cooksey, MS, offers the market more than 30 years of creative, innovative, technology, and training experience and expertise. Driven by Cooksey's probing mentality and diverse visions, TCG's value has been developed and refined in consulting, entrepreneurial, and multi-national corporate platforms. Dynamic TCG clients have included Northwestern Mutual, Chicago Public Schools, Shall We Wine, ATT, Toyota, Bell South, Zurich, IBM, Staples, Southwest Airlines, CNA, Not-for-Profit agencies, political campaigns, and many others.

Areas of Experience / Expertise:
A. Product Invention / Innovation / Design & Development / Management
B. Business Consulting
C. IT Database Administration (DBA) Consulting

A. PRODUCT INVENTION / INNOVATION / DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT / MANAGEMENT Distinctive products are created with "Design Thinking" principles for application in sports/recreation safety, artistic presentations, training curriculums, entertainment media, and other product spaces. Conceptually, the products are designed as solutions and enhancements to what exists, and as visions to what can be.

Products
Impact Protection System (IPS) - A next-generation “helmet system” conceptualized to simultaneously protect the head, brain, and neck in impact-prone sports/recreation activities, and fall-prone physically challenged. It is designed to prevent and reduce the occurrence of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) - Concussions, CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), and Dementia, and Neck Injuries (NI) - Neck Fractures, Spinal Cord Damage, and Paralysis that occur in traditional and extreme sports/recreation activities (football, hockey, rodeos, motocross, X Games, and more). By design, IPS is a unique new implement for positive health.

Product Invention & Innovation Academy (PIIA) - Youth and adult invention and innovation training.

Easyl - A simplified gallery style art hanging system that eliminates wall and tool requirements.

CordOrg - An appliance/electronic cord and earplug organizing system.

Power Players - TV programming featuring top industry leaders.

B. BUSINESS CONSULTING Training
Product Invention & Innovation Academy (PIIA) - Youth and adult training that empowers them to create new products, and monetize them in the global marketplace. PIIA features keys to the successful design and development of products through methodologies supported by a structured process.

Workforce Development
Employment Readiness, Training, and Fairs - Engaging programs are developed and implemented for social services agency clients. A client Parallel Summary document was created to directly link clients’ specific resume experience to employers’ specific job requirements in job descriptions. Client Employment Portfolios are originated for clients, and include resumes, cover letters, reference contact documents, parallel summaries, salary histories and requirements, certificates and degrees, mock interview questions/answers, and pre-completed employment applications to reference during employer application completions. Conduct orientation, intake, assessment, resume reviews/revisions, and mock interview sessions. Assess and qualify clients for IL state on-the-job training and workforce training programs.

Event Management - Business / Artistic / Cultural / Social
Event Operations/Management - Creative and effective experience in designing, marketing, and executing diverse event plans that: 1. Translate Brand Objectives 2. Generate Growth 3. Satisfy Partner Expectations 4. Captivate Audiences Consistently implement core competencies, relate value propositions, and identify opportunity gaps to elevate positive event experiences. Event audiences have spanned from 50 to more than 30,000.

“Successful events are more than someplace to go. They are the place to be.” – CTC

Communications
Marketing / Sales / Sponsorship Development / PR & Media Relations / Advertising

C. IT DATABASE ADMINISTRATION (DBA) CONSULTING Mainframe DBA - DB2 / IMS
Support mainframe applications for client organizations. Perform backup/recovery, utility execution, migrations, performance tuning, refreshes, installations, disaster recovery, physical design (primary), DDL and DML creation/execution, and logical design (secondary). Create entity relationship diagrams and perform reverse engineering. Conduct sizing, security, stress testing, troubleshooting, and job scheduling functions. Provide 24/7 onsite and remote support for production and test systems.