ANDREW BONE

Setauket, NY, 11733 Cell: 631-664-7811 AndrewtBone@gmail.com

www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtbone18/ & http://www.andrewtbone.com/

PROFILE
PMO IT Infrastructure Software Director adept at developing and executing strategies in solution deployment and process improvement. A servant leader who works collaboratively at all levels with a proven track record of success in delivering excellence. Possesses a unique combination of software development, support, operations and program management skills. Experienced with Agile/Scrum and remains current with industry trends such as Cloud, SaaS & IaaS. Innovative and passionate, firmly believing that IT must be aligned to business needs and deliver value. PMP, CSM, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt PMO Director Agile/Scrum Transformation IT Infrastructure & Software management Globalization and Localization Expert Disaster Recovery Planning and Implementation IT Service Management Outsourcing & Vendor Management Process Improvements and Re-engineering Budgeting, Business Management Systems Global & Multi-cultural Management Cross-functional Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CA Technologies, Islandia, NY Jan 1981 - 2013(June)

CA Technologies, a worldwide leader in providing IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments (on Mainframe, distributed, mobile, SaaS and Cloud).

Engineering Program Director

4/2010 - 6/2013

Managed a team of 10 project managers within a central PMO delivering software and localization projects through matrix teams from India, China, Japan, Europe and South America. Also championed CAs worldwide virtual Project Manager community, providing bi-monthly education and training. Increased project management capacity by 10% while keeping costs constant by re-engineering project status reporting and standard practices using Agile/Scrum approaches. This included integrating Localization and Customer Validation Project Management into the core Business Unit (BU) PMOs. Program managed SMART (Solutions Management and Agile Release Teams) methodology deployment, a business process change, resulting in a 50% reduction in meetings saving over $2 Million annually. Elevated project manager capabilities by coaching and mentoring over 80% of the team to PMP certification.

R&D Director, Localization

4/2001 - 4/2010

Supervised Localization Project and Program Management delivering over 40 products in 133 product/language combinations yearly. 30+ projects concurrently active at any one time, budget over $11M annually covering over 80 employees. Defined and executed a localization strategy which improved product localization efficiency by 60% saving over $2.5 Million annually. This holistic solution combined source content management and enterprise translation management and automation. Transformed an underperforming, demoralized, team of low maturity into a high performing, efficient team of high maturity (assessed at Level 4 Localization Maturity Model). Launched a PMO introducing standard practices and processes (in CA Clarity) including compliance requirements. Resolved misunderstandings with Business Unit Executives (VP stakeholders) by introducing standard and consistent communication.

Negotiated with localization vendors saving more than 20% ($2 Million annually) by moving to annual contracts. Led Indian localization team setup, interviewing and hiring a team of over 20 professionals increasing engineering capacity by 50% while keeping annual costs constant.

VP Data Center Operations

4/1998 - 4/2001

Managed CAs 25,000 Sq. ft. data center and worldwide IT infrastructure for 24/7 operations, comprised of a mixture of Mainframes, Unix, Intel and Wang systems using CISCO networking. This included teams of data center and network operators, PC services, the IT help desk and production control, totaling over 40 people. Transformed daily operational work by driving a major re-construction of CAs control center, reducing payroll by over 25%, increasing efficiency and becoming a showcase for CAs products. Championed the deployment of CAs Infrastructure Management software, saving $250 Thousand. Recognizing that CAs disaster recovery plans based on off-site backups would likely fail if required, redefined strategy, architected a system of real time data replication and drove quarterly testing to prove viability.

VP R&D

4/1993 - 4/1998

Mainframe systems programming manager of a team of 10 supporting CAs production and development systems, responsible for all systems, security and data integrity, including hardware and operating systems upgrades and CA/ISV software maintenance. Faced with unstable production and development environments, instituted rigorous change control, consistent and repeatable practices, and root cause analysis of all problems leading to improved uptime by over 50% over a 1 year period. Saved over $2 Million annually by working with IBM and EMC vendors on hardware reorganization and consolidations. Over a 5 year period, directed 6 data center consolidations resulting in savings of over $2 Million annually.

Other Experience (CAP-CPP LTD, UK acquired by Computer Associates) 1/1981 - 4/1993

Progressed from programmer to AVP working on mainframe systems products in development and support performing multiple roles. Product owner of CA-Netman. Managed all CA product customer facing level 1 (technical) support for over a year. Worked on a variety of consulting services contracts using varied high and low level programming languages on different operating systems/platforms at Barclays Bank (Check Clearing/Banking), Wigham Poland (Insurance), Sun Alliance (Insurance- 3270 testing automation), OCL (Shipping) and CAP-CPP Software division (Data management software).

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
Development Methodologies: SDLC, Agile/Scrum, Modified Water Fall (MWF), Software lifecycles Programming Languages: Mainframe Assembler (BAL), PL/I, COBOL, REXX, RPG, JCL Software: Clarity, Agile Vision, Product Vision, MS Project, OWB, RTC. Detailed and working knowledge of many CA mainframe and distributed products in workload automation, security, service and storage management. SMP/E, HP MQC, MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Social Networking. Translation Software: SDL/TMS, Catalyst, TMX/TTK, Author/IT, XLIFF, XML. Operating systems & Databases: z/OS, OS/390 MVS, VS1, VM, VSE, Unix, Linux, Windows, AS400, Databases: SQL, Oracle, DB/2 Hardware: IBM, Sun, HP, Dell, VAX, EMC, IBM RAMAC, Storage arrays, STK Tape Silos.

EDUCATION
BSc (Honors), Chemistry St. Chads College Durham University, Durham UK