There's an interesting article on Shaygan Kheradpir the CIO of Verizon and basically how he runs a 7,000 person IT Team with a budget of $1.5Billion. It mentions the project I'm working on (Verizon One) and how it came about. Goes through a typical meeting with him and his meetings are straight to the point. He doesn't like hearing the Marketing BS but just wants to know whats happening (and I can vouch for that) Cool thing about him is he can get his hands dirty in code and help debug code and a lot of the Verizon directors do the same. Cool company to work with but there are a lot of hours when ready to go live but that's expected in the software world!
More info on Verizon One and other Verizon Products:
Verizon One - https://www22.verizon.com/verizonone/
Showcase of products - http://www22.verizon.com/showcase/