Verizon Executives
Shankar Arumugavelu
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Verizon Telecom
Shankar Arumugavelu is senior vice president and chief information officer for Verizon Telecom. Prior to this, Shankar has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility at Verizon and its predecessor companies. Immediately before his current assignment, Shankar was senior vice president, Network Operations Support Systems for Verizon Telecom. He was responsible for information systems strategy, architecture, design, development, implementation and maintenance of engineering, service provisioning, service assurance, workforce management, dispatch, testing, surveillance and performance management systems for voice, data, video, special access and new generation communication services.
Prior to becoming senior vice president, Shankar was executive director - Provisioning and Activation Systems for Verizon, where he headed the IT cross-portfolio Systems Architecture Program Office for Verizon's strategic programs like FTTP, Enterprise Advance and the Wholesale Access program. In 2005 Shankar was awarded the prestigious Verizon Excellence Award for his leadership on the FTTP program. Before becoming Executive Director, Shankar was principal architect, Broadband & Next Generation Provisioning Systems.
Shankar began his career at GTE Data Services in 1997 as a Member of Technical Staff in the Enterprise Systems Group. In 1998 he was named Chief Architect of the group. He was responsible for the design, deployment and maintenance of GTE's flagship service provisioning system, AAIS which won the SUPERQuest award for Best Built OSS/BSS at SUPERCOMM 2001. Shankar received GTE's prestigious Leslie H. Warner Creative Technical Achievement Award in 1999.
Before joining GTE as an employee, Shankar was a consultant at GTE working on Distributed Computing Infrastructure and Client/Server application maintenance and support.
Shankar holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of South Florida, Tampa and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, India.
Shankar is a member of the University of South Florida's Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences Advisory Board.
March 2008
