Diane Durante
Director, Administration @Ums Group
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WORK HISTORY
Director, Administration @Ums Group
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Digital Marketing/Social Media Marketing strategies to increase brand awareness through social media networks, including search engine optimization (\"SEO\") strategies, review Google Analytics reports and implement strategies to increase website traffic using online marketing / various online advertising initiatives; monitor/review results of digital marketing campaigns.Project Management: Managing teams by creating energy and enthusiasm in the team, through the successful completion of projects. Working with upper management, setting milestones, and reviewing progress to overcome obstacles. IT: Administration of Exchange server, procurement and configuration of laptops. SharePoint administrator, creation of SharePoint sites for projects and troubleshooting user issues.Human Resources: Managing all HR functions, including employee benefits, payroll, recruiting, training, employee records, vendors and performance reviews.Facilities Management: Managing current and future office space, security, signage, telephone, internet, including procurement of all office equipment.Payroll, Expense Monitoring & Control: Payroll processing, managing expenditures in key areas such as travel, insurance, computer equipment/servers, conference call services, cell phones (including strategies for containing cost for international calls), furniture and equipment, and identifying cost savings opportunities.Legal: Review and retention of all contracts including but not limited to vendor, employment, service, and contractor agreements.Insurances: Maintain all commercial insurances, effectively negotiate limits and commercial insurance coverages including, but not limited to Property, Casualty, D&O, Employment Practices, Crime, E&O, General Liability, Umbrella policies and Key man policies.Working closely with the executive team to achieve the company’s goals and objectives.
ABOUT DIANE DURANTE
Promoting awareness around the capabilities of UMS Group, a utility consulting firm focused solely on utilities for over 34 years. • Recruiting utilities interested in participating in the International Wildfire Risk Mitigation Consortium to share wildfire risk mitigation insights and the discovery of innovative and unique practices from across the global utility industry • Advanced aerial inspection technology • Cost reduction pressure and the need to improve workforce productivity • Operational Analytics and unlocking insights from your data • Regulatory pressure for Reliability Improvement • Digitalization of the industry and the impact on new skills and reduced staffing in the business • Asset Management maturity and new technology best practices • Aging infrastructure and Capital Investment Optimization UMS Group has assisted utilities in addressing their aging assets by working with utility Leadership to develop and improve their Asset Management capabilities. This work has included development of strategic asset management plans, performance of asset risk assessments, creation of asset lifecycle strategies and plans, and development of economic risk modeling and decision support, as well as helping some companies undertake full asset management transformations of their business. We also continue to build an extensive library of databases (against which to benchmark performance and best practices) organizational design and business process models, and decision support tools, representing the unique experiences of the world\'s most successful organizations. Through our global perspectives, strategic capabilities, and carefully chosen alliances, UMS Group can offer methodologies for change that outpace those of the industry, resulting in what we call Best of the Best performance for our client companies.
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