Patricia A. Amaranth Vice President, Systems Operations

Patricia A. Amaranth is Vice President of Systems Operations for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

Amaranth is responsible for the company’s data center, network, distributed systems, personal computers, and data warehouse and call center technologies.

Before joining the Blues in 1998, Amaranth had been Director of Network Infrastructure Technology and Operations for General Motors Corporation in Detroit. Previously, she was Director of Network and Systems at United Technologies Automotive, Dearborn. She also had been a Staff Development Engineer at the GM Technical Center in Warren.

She received her master of science and bachelor of arts degrees in computer science from Wayne State University.

She was named as one of the 2003 Top Michigan Women in Computing by the Ann Arbor Chapter of the Association for Women in Computing and is a member of Oakland University’s Decision and Information Services Advisory Board.

Amaranth is former Chair of the National Bureau of Standards Open System Workshop, an industry and government consortium. She also has been Co-chair of the Corporation for Open Systems Architecture Committee, an industry group for testing data communication standards.