Mr. David Blake
AT&T Public Sector - Defense
Director
David Blake is the Client Executive Director of AT&T's Army/DISA/USCYBER program and engineering practice serving Defense customers with high value professional service expertise based on AT&T Labs and
commercial service provider best practices and experiences. He leads a team of technical engineers and program managers with experience spanning numerous domains including Enterprise Data Architecture, Global Network and Security Operations, Maintenance and Provisioning process and Operations Support Systems (OSS) automation based on AT&T's real-world business transformation experience. While working various assignments in Network Operations Planning, Bell Laboratories and AT&T Labs, Mr.Blake has over 25 years of Telecommunications and Information Technology background and experience directing large scale, multi-vendor, high risk/reward integration projects, including rapid software development and enterprise networking programs that e-enable business processes, transform networks and provide operations automation.
He managed the Configuration Management Center of Excellence for AT&T's global network and service inventory responsible for engineering, planning and implementing solutions for network inventory management challenges, standardization and automation. This program included migration of legacy systems into a Global target architecture platform for Enterprise Configuration Management (CM). David's team managed a consolidation and automation program to provide a single inventory, design and provisioning platform for AT&T's Global Layer 1/2/3 network equipment and transport networks streamlining operations and service fulfillment. The scope consisted of cleansing, translating and migrating over 4 million units of data, consolidating functionality from over 30 systems into one platform, and providing 70% flowthrough
automation. He led the systems engineering team for e-Sales and Service Ordering development on AT&T's BusinessDirectsm platform which provides a single web portal for AT&T business customers to access sales and service applications across all product offerings, providing an efficient way to order, report troubles, review bills, retrieve performance data and check status for all their AT&T services. BusinessDirectsm was
recognized for leveraging information technology to significantly improve the customer experience as
selected by CIO Magazine as the 2005 winner for Enterprise Value Awards in the category High Tech, Telecom and Utilities.He received his BS in Management Information Systems and MS in Communication and Information Sciences from Ball State University.
commercial service provider best practices and experiences. He leads a team of technical engineers and program managers with experience spanning numerous domains including Enterprise Data Architecture, Global Network and Security Operations, Maintenance and Provisioning process and Operations Support Systems (OSS) automation based on AT&T's real-world business transformation experience. While working various assignments in Network Operations Planning, Bell Laboratories and AT&T Labs, Mr.Blake has over 25 years of Telecommunications and Information Technology background and experience directing large scale, multi-vendor, high risk/reward integration projects, including rapid software development and enterprise networking programs that e-enable business processes, transform networks and provide operations automation.
He managed the Configuration Management Center of Excellence for AT&T's global network and service inventory responsible for engineering, planning and implementing solutions for network inventory management challenges, standardization and automation. This program included migration of legacy systems into a Global target architecture platform for Enterprise Configuration Management (CM). David's team managed a consolidation and automation program to provide a single inventory, design and provisioning platform for AT&T's Global Layer 1/2/3 network equipment and transport networks streamlining operations and service fulfillment. The scope consisted of cleansing, translating and migrating over 4 million units of data, consolidating functionality from over 30 systems into one platform, and providing 70% flowthrough
automation. He led the systems engineering team for e-Sales and Service Ordering development on AT&T's BusinessDirectsm platform which provides a single web portal for AT&T business customers to access sales and service applications across all product offerings, providing an efficient way to order, report troubles, review bills, retrieve performance data and check status for all their AT&T services. BusinessDirectsm was
recognized for leveraging information technology to significantly improve the customer experience as
selected by CIO Magazine as the 2005 winner for Enterprise Value Awards in the category High Tech, Telecom and Utilities.He received his BS in Management Information Systems and MS in Communication and Information Sciences from Ball State University.