As executive vice president and chief technology officer, Al Nugent leads CA's Office of the CTO and oversees the company's technology vision and strategy. His teams are delivering common technology services to CA's business units, ensuring architectural compliance and integration of the company's solutions and products. He is also focused on creating an integrated software engineering methodology focusing on quality, reliability and consistency of the entire CA solutions portfolio.
Prior to his appointment as CTO, Al was the senior vice president and general manager of CA's Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) business unit, responsible for CA's award-winning Unicenter brand of management solutions. Under his leadership, the business unit grew at twice the market growth rate. ESM also delivered over a dozen new products and solutions including the flagship Unicenter r11.
Before joining CA in April of 2005, Al was senior vice president and CTO of Novell, where he was the innovator behind the company's moves into open source and identity-driven solutions. Earlier, he was executive vice president, CTO, and CIO of Vectant, Inc., responsible for all technology design, acquisition, and deployment for all of the technology company's business units, as well as for all internal support systems and infrastructure in the U.S. and Japan.
Al was also consulting chief technologist and chief software architect for BellSouth Corporation where he was a key contributor on a wide variety of technology issues, including the Web Services and eCommerce, enterprise application architecture and integration, software engineering process and data delivery products and services. He also served as senior vice president, CTO, and CIO at American Re-Insurance Company, vice president of software development and CTO at Xerox Corporation and began his 30-year career at Hewlett-Packard Company. |