About

Lisa Cook is a highly experienced technology deployment specialist with over 20 years of experience in successfully executing complex, multi-site technology deployments for organizations such as Walgreens, Ulta Beauty, Office Max, Walmart, Blockbuster, American Eagle, Chrysler, and Simon Property Group. Her expertise lies in helping organizations deploy technology to their locations the first time, while reducing cost overruns and enabling technologies faster. As the CEO of OPL Technologies LLC, Lisa provides planning, design, and training services for retail technology deployments. Her company specializes in helping retail leadership avoid failed technology deployments by designing them from the ground up, saving money, and enabling new technologies faster. Lisa's success lies in her ability to create clear, step-by-step deployment designs that detail how every aspect of the rollout will be successfully executed before anyone ever steps foot on site. She prioritizes appropriately, manages risk expertly, and follows through unerringly. Lisa is a strategic thinker with a great vision and understands both the business and technology challenges faced by companies today. She is able to come up with concrete, practical plans and solutions to address these challenges. Lisa's past experience includes serving as the Chief Operating Officer at Dispatch1 and as the Vice President of Strategic Design at Kinettix. Her tech stack includes expertise in senior software engineering and infrastructure. Lisa's clients speak highly of her work, with one stating that "thru her analytic style, attention to detail, and rigorous adherence to process, Lisa was a key contributor to the outstanding, on-time delivery results of our store technology refresh rollout to over 7,000 locations. Without Lisa’s involvement we wouldn’t have had the dramatic success we did." If you're looking for a technology deployment specialist who can reduce cost overruns by 30+% and deploy technology to your stores even faster, Lisa Cook is the person to connect with on LinkedIn.