Diane Cochran Email & Phone Number

London, England, GB

At Improbable I was asked to leverage my extensive experience in large scale game platform development to create and manage a team responsible for building out a system for their internal studios. The intent was that this platform could also be leveraged as a white label solution along with their game server hosting activities to provide a turn-key.

Irvine, CA, US

I spent the last year of my time at Blizzard forming the engineering team and starting work on an unannounced game project within the Incubation group. Using Unity as a tool for easy prototyping and pulling in my experience in CI/CD, we set up always available builds for the design team and executive stakeholders. This earned me and my team tremendous.

Irvine, CA, US

In 2014, I was tasked with re-forming Web & Mobile, the consumer oriented arm of the Blizzard technical organization. Under my guidance, the team grew to over 100 engineers working on all of our web properties, consumer mobile apps, and the corresponding back end infrastructure, drastically speeding up our ability to create engaging out of game experiences.

Irvine, CA, US

In August of 2012, I moved from a DevOps role back into pure engineering, acting as the lead for several projects within Battle.net. During my time here, I created an OAuth provider and several API services to allow our regional teams to operate independently, pushed to have the system opened to the public and worked to provide a real face for our.

Irvine, CA, US

I was brought on to manage the entire QA and deployment process for the Web & Mobile group of Battle.net within Blizzard Entertainment. This included creating tools, instituting software technology decisions and guiding the team into a fully automated deployment solution. In the process of doing my work, I set up a virtualized QA environment that consists.

Wayland, Massachusetts, US

I managed the entirety of software development for Syneron, covering everything from consumer websites to being the principal developer for a company wide BI platform. Developing primarily PHP based services with a smattering of Java work for specific technologies, I gradually worked to move the company from a pen and paper institution to a technology.

Irvine, CA, US

At YouMail, I helped the company go from napkin concepts and Series A funding to 10k customers, an appearance on KROQ and a fully fledged visual voicemail system that was in place before the iPhone announcement. I worked across multiple boundaries, handling server programming in Java, dynamic HTML and Javascript pages, and database work in Oracle.

I served as the primary technical resource for this small consulting group, working on numerous small projects throughout the years. Mostly assisting small businesses, I would help them modernize their technical infrastructure, websites and other systems within the company.

I was the buck-stopper in IT for this 100+ employee Mortgage company. I was the internal webdeveloper, system programmer, senior systems administrator, and senior technical support person. I was responsible for nearly every technical process in the company, ranging from credit and propertyvalue checks by loan officer, to accounting reports for company.

I served as the primary developer for the project that would eventually become the UNSPSC (http://www.unspsc.org/), a United Nations project to classify the items of the world. I helped write system daemons to provide an API, the website for viewing and inserting items into the database and helping to drive future technology direction.

Milpitas, CA, US

I served as the technical lead for the GoldSync Resolutions team while here, a technical support group that specialized in helping our high profile clients have a smooth experience with our software. While here, I wrote a number of tools to help fix common issues in the synchronization of user data in the application.