Sabu Stephen is the assistant executive director of operations for NTTA.
Stephen first joined NTTA in 2014 as the director of information technology. His responsibilities in that role included management of NTTA’s transition to a new back-office system and the organization’s business applications, roadway system operations and support. During his time as the director of IT, Stephen created a formal division to manage IT projects and developed and launched a five-year strategic IT roadmap that aligned the department’s objectives with NTTA’s strategic plan and goals.
Stephen has expertise in budgeting, management and strategic planning as well as more than 25 years of IT experience. He is also an active member of OmniAir Consortium, the leading industry association promoting tolling interoperability and certification for connected vehicles, intelligent transportation systems and transportation payment systems. Stephen was recently named a board member of the consortium.
Before joining the NTTA team, Stephen served as the director of IT operation and services at Overhead Door Corporation in Lewisville, Texas.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bangalore University in Bangalore, India, and is a graduate of the National Institute of Information Technology where he studied computer systems.