Arlene Fowler

Arlene Fowler is the Executive Assistant to Chris Wells, Executive Director of Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA).

Arlene Fowler is the Executive Assistant to Chris Wells, Executive Director of Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA).  Mrs. Fowler has over 25 years of experience as an Executive Administrative professional for both the public and private global industry.  Mrs. Fowler’s areas of expertise include strong organizational, technical, and interpersonal skills, policy development, training, and a commitment to superior customer service.

Prior to joining GVRA on June 16, 2023, Mrs. Fowler served the Troup County School System as the Superintendent’s and Board of Education’s Executive Assistant for 10 years. She was the official policy liaison between the school system, State Board of Education, and other supporting agencies, updating policies and regulations as necessary.  She worked closely with the district’s legal counsel and developed and maintained the budgets for the Superintendent and Board of Education.

Before moving to the Superintendent’s office, she was the Chief Financial Officer’s Executive Assistant for 9 years, serving as the district’s information system security officer, maintaining the SQL schema, data, and tables for the student information system, assisting with budget preparation, implementing HOPE and FAFSA training workshops for parents of college-bound students, managed the employee sick leave bank, and assisted with payroll, benefits, workers compensation. 

In the private sector, Mrs. Fowler served two separate global companies.  As the Site Administrative Assistant and HR Generalist, she was responsible for payroll, benefits, workers compensation, and safety training as well as tracking and analyzing performance metrics including efficiency, nonconformance, labor earnings/cost, inventory, quality, and recycling.  As the Quality Information Specialist, Mrs. Fowler served as the liaison among senior executives, customers, suppliers, middle management, and administrative staff. She conducted internal audits and was instrumental in securing ISO 14001 certification by developing a database to track internal quality issues from the initial finding to problem resolution.