Published October 18, 2018
By : Staff Writer
2018 Special Recognition Honoree Jackie Mason works in AT&T's automation platforms development and technology development business.
She is an award-winning professional with years of experience in systems-level integration, project management, and software development.
Mason is now a Principal Member of Technical Staff, managing many of AT&T's most critical and highly visible projects.
Most recently, she led her team to receive AT&T’s prestigious 2017 Technology Development President's Award.
She has also led her team to deliver a new operating support system architecture for designing, managing, and maintaining an “Optical White Box” (OWB) network.
OWB uses technology to create 100-gigabit wavelength trunking between metropolitan areas and is designed to operate in a 21-state environment.
Mason’s leadership was instrumental in delivering a software-defined networking enabled ultra-long haul program.
This critical program supports AT&T's 2020 goal to virtualize and control over 75% of the target long-distance network.
It also supports the network planning, network inventory, and equipment ordering functions in this exponentially complex solution with extreme dependencies on third-party provided systems and other services. Her strategic and forward thinking ensures that projects under her direction are on schedule, to specification, and within budget.
