Carl Tegen leads a business unit of AT&T Public Sector Organization, where he is responsible for the client relationship with the United States Army and the Defense Information Systems Agency. He is accountable for acquisition of new business, service delivery, customer satisfaction and business performance. The organization provides customers worldwide with IT Solutions from concept definition through execution.
Mr. Tegen previously served as the Director of the Network Solutions Center of Excellence in AT&T Government Solutions, bringing engineering and management capabilities of the worldwide AT&T Corporation to bear on customer enterprise IT challenges. Mr. Tegen also served in AT&T Labs where he was responsible for consolidation of Operation Support Systems from the former Teleport Communications Group, LLC (TCG) into AT&T’s backbone applications. During the World Trade Center Disaster Recovery, he led the software systems support required to enable reopening of the New York Stock Exchange, one week after 9/11.
A veteran of the US Army Signal Corps, Tegen deployed to northern Iraq in 1991 during Operation Provide Comfort, where he supported the engineering, deployment, and operation of the Combined Task Force communications network for NATO in Iraq and Turkey. At the US Army Communications-Electronics Command, Fort Monmouth, NJ, he served in numerous system acquisition positions, including Contracting Officer, Chief Engineer for PM MILSTAR (Army) and Product Manager of Communications Management Systems.
Mr. Tegen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He earned a Master of Science in Acquisition and Contract Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.