Diane Decker Email & Phone Number

New Jersey, United States

Greater New York City Area

Provide exceptional program & project management enabling delivery of portfolio supporting Advertising Technology projects for Warner Media Technical Operations, AT&T Video and Xandr Media.Responsible for the project management and successful delivery of a converged addressable offering combining DirectTV with Open Video and Connected TV; initial launch and continued enhancements to this offering which has yielded in excess of $46M in booked revenue in the first year.Manage and deliver projects that maximize the value of our AT&T owned media and data.Facilitate coordination, collaboration and communication across multiple systems and organizations to ensure timely delivery. Foster partnership across organizations.Manage large scale develop efforts focused on delivering solutions that support data integration/modeling for automated reporting, measurement and analytics of campaign data (audience, impression, etc.) on multiple platforms / for multiple products.Manage efforts that continue to expand inventory sources aimed at increasing the number of CTV devices that can be targeted through household level targeting. Continue to provide support, drive communication and collaboration between Product and Engineering in effort to deliver on committed projects and maintain alignment with the product roadmap.Support systems and teams utilizing Snowflake databases, Looker BI enablement, API / webservices, SQS, etc.As a team lead, support my peers and project teams by supporting and maintaining a continuous learning culture, sharing resources and empowering project team members to teach and learnPartner with my manager to provide regular, actionable feedback and coaching to improve employee performance.Provide insight and expertise for continued improvement in our lean portfolio management team and processes supporting concept through delivery, including financial tracking.

Fulfilled the role of both application project manager and development team manager for single and multi-system projects. Responsible for project pricing and development of project Statement of Work, resource allocation based on workload and performance, project scheduling and budget; identification of risks, risk mitigation, dependencies and contingencies. Managed project teams ranging from 5 to 25 people on a cross functional team throughout the SDLC using both waterfall and Agile methodologies. Project teams included analysts, developers, testers, production support and infrastructure. Support analysis and development team through the creation of the system requirements and detailed design; support developers during the code phase. Provide guidance and support regarding testing strategy and execution. Assist the test teams throughout internal system testing and coordination of end-to-end testing and defect resolution with various applications.Support the creative process by working with users to understand their needs and coordinate within NCS to develop unique solutions to support their business. For example, identified opportunities for automation of manual processes in the client back-office centers resulting in cost savings and head-count reduction.Provide ongoing support and coordination for the application hardware and software infrastructure including the management of firewall, certificates, domains, hardware and software warranties, disaster recovery planning, alarms, patches, etc.Program Manager responsible for new and on-going application development projects for a variety of NCS clients.

AT&T Consumer Information Technology / Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Small Business Program Manager / VoIP Billing Project Manager - E2E IT Program Manager for high-priority program targeted at delivering a competitive VoIP offer for Small Business customers, including ordering, provisioning, fulfillment, billing and journals.Coordinated requirements, timelines and managed the completion of development, testing, etc.Supported Release Management, post-deployment activities and issue resolution.Customize and integrate an external billing system with current AT&T applications and provide a new billing infrastructure for AT&T Call Vantage service.Managed IT projects dealing with end-to-end web development and testing. Worked with internal and external web development agencies (outsourcing, co-sourcing, and vendor contracts) to develop and deliver customer experience flows, wire-frames and creative materials for AT&T Consumer websites.

500 Atrium Drive Somerset, Nj

Senior Project Manager for AT&T Consumer and Business projects impacting applications owned by CSC as a vendor to AT&T. Project Management scope often included cross-vendor project management (IBM, EDS, Convergys) and integrated project management.Managed projects impacting AT&T Consumer and Business ordering, provisioning and billing for AT&T Calling Card and other services.

Newark, Nj

Project Manager - VIRGOS Project ManagementWorked with programmers from Central Office Engineering Tool applications used by Lucent Technologies’ customers to develop engineering blue-prints. Worked closely with programmers to define and document project requirements, develop time estimates; prioritize current work efforts; develop work breakdown structures, implementation and test plans; carry out all of the above tasks in accordance with SEI II.Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Level II ComplianceFor the same applications, worked with programmers to achieve SEI Level II for SoftwareFacilitated coordination of all supporting documentation related to SCM.Year 2000 Compliance Worked with programmers from the Central Office Engineering Tool applications to ensure compliance with requirements for systems development with respect to year 2000 code changes.Managed the teams’ operating system and transaction manager migration.

East Brunswick, New Jersey

WATS 800 Family of Services Billing and Revenue

Masters Of Science, Management / Project Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science