Bill Andrews

Current

Program Manager at Jaguar Cars
Program Manager at Land Rover

Past

Program Manager at Ford Motor Company
Project Manager at MIS International
Biomedical Programmer at Sinai Hosptial

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Education

Wayne State University

Recommended

13 people have recommended Bill

Connections

140 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Website

Bill Andrews’s Summary

Strong Program Manager with the ability to take command of complex and contentious situations and develop tactical solutions while maintaining the integrity of the overall strategic direction of both the technical aspects of IT and the business needs of the company.

29 years IT experience, with 21 years as manager in charge of teams of various sizes from small coding teams to Program Management for global launches (e.g. involving 150+ personnel spanning 44 applications simultaneously).

Broad vision and understanding of the role of IT in a company's profitability with the ability to effectively communicate and manage needs of all facets of the organization from Executive Management to End User.

Experienced in the business of running an IT organization including vendor relationship management, outsourcing, IT customer relationship management, budget and financial management, technology assessment, and employee mentoring.

Extensive business analysis background with experience in manufacturing, product development, customer service, marketing and sales, and retailer systems.

Bill Andrews’s Specialties:

Variable marketing, warranty, customer knowledge systems, vehicle databases, CIM, ISO/OSI, DOD SBIR, MAP/TOP, project management, program management, system life cycle management, SOX

Bill Andrews’s Experience

Program Manager

Jaguar Cars

(Public Company; Automotive industry)

February 2000 — Present (9 years 10 months)

Currently managing the project to migrate Ford finance and accounting functions to SAP Business One for AP, AR, GL, and purchasing.

Manages the sales, variable marketing incentive, and off lease portfolio management systems (BBSS) used in all 350+ North American Jaguar and Land Rover dealers.

IT Program Manager responsible for integrating Jaguar into Ford's Warranty system. This involved the global integration, coordination, and simultaneous launch of 44 systems involving over 150+ employees.
Program Manager

Land Rover

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2000 — Present (9 years 10 months)
Program Manager

Ford Motor Company

(Public Company; F; Automotive industry)

June 1995 — December 2008 (13 years 7 months)

Ran the project management office for the development of the analytical reporting system used for warranty reporting by the Global Engineering and Quality teams.

Led the development team of the global vehicle database used to support the global recall system.
Project Manager

MIS International

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1981 — June 1995 (13 years 11 months)

Developed and successfully completed three DoD SBIR Phase 1 grants covering innovative solutions for communications, machine vision, and CIM.

Designed and the managed the network infrastructure modernization of the Rogue Steel campus using high speed fiber optics and 100 Base T technology covering 18 buildings, including both manufacturing and office areas.

Managed and lead analyst of a shock absorber simulator which used proprietary stiff differential equations to compute stroke versus reaction force and display them in a customizable graphical reporting system

Developed a methodology to quantify soft metrics when comparing open versus propietarty network toplogies.
Biomedical Programmer

Sinai Hosptial

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1979 — August 1981 (2 years 3 months)

Developed innovative statistical system for modelling, predicting, and graphing prothestic myocardium performance based on surgical data.

Bill Andrews’s Education

Wayne State University

BS , Computer Science , 1977 — 1981

Activities and Societies:

Phi Beta Kappa

Additional Information

Bill Andrews’s Websites:

My Website

Bill Andrews’s Interests:

Developing Internet-based companies (e.g. www.livingscrapbooks.com), Blackberry technology, and soccer

Bill Andrews’s Groups:

Phi Beta Kappa

eOffice
Executive Suite
Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
Wayne State University Alum
Motor City Connect
Project Managers Group
Ford Motor Company
CIOs.com: Chief Information Officer Network
CEO Crossing
Automotive Digital Marketing
Mobile Content
Smartphone Professionals (4000+)
Ford Motor Company Alumni
Automotive Management Professionals
Auto OEM Network
PLM Group
DetroitNET.org
BlackBerry Cool
Jaguar Cars Alumni
Land Rover Alumni
EVC Leaders - Practitioners of IT Economic Value Creation (Only for CIOs, IT & PMO Managers)
IT Focus Expert Group