The Guardian Y2K Project Core Team Photograph

At Guardian Life Insurance Company, the Y2K team formed in 1996, consisted of fifty individuals chosen from within the company. By April 2000 the Guardian Life Insurance Company’s Y2K team had completed their task. Less than one percent of the approximately twenty million lines of code analyzed were identified as potentially affected by the year 2000. That number is still nearly 200,000 lines of code that had to be manually reviewed, updated, and tested. As part of the work they discovered and quarantined 2,500 obsolete programs. They had “cleaned house” and improved their disaster recovery procedures.

Pictured in the photograph is the 12-member core team. From left to right: Spencer Parness, Marianne Puma, Chris Chen, Brian Marshall, Arthur Bonagura, Emilio Rodriguez, Thomas Mannix (Y2K Project Assistant Director, and donor of the Guardian objects), Ann Foyler, Mark Malone, Janet Sokoloff (Y2K Project Director), Joseph Connel, and Armond DePaulo.

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