In 1963, when our founders Fletcher Jones and Roy Nutt took CSC public, it became the first software company to be traded on the Pacific and American stock exchanges. Five years later, in 1968, CSC became the first independent IT services company to be listed on the NYSE.

The nine employees joining Mr. Laphen for the ringing of the bell included representatives from Asia, Australia, Europe, India, Latin America and North America, as well as CSC’s longest-serving employee and a three-time recipient of the Chairman’s Award of Excellence.

Learn more about CSC’s 50th Anniversary.

Why have you enjoyed working at CSC?
This is my sixth year at CSC and when it comes to what I have enjoyed most about my CSC career, a few things come to mind.  I like the way our teams are high energy and rally around how to best meet customer requirements.  Also, it’s especially important to me that CSC’s culture provides us the freedom to suggest new solutions and our company has avenues to turn those ideas into reality.  I’ve really enjoyed working on new process improvement initiatives and replicating them across CSC and leading Lean/Six Sigma.  I also appreciate the virtual nature of my job, which has enabled me to develop a healthy work/life balance.  Finally, I’ve had the opportunity to be a motivational speaker at many internal and external events.  It’s something that I’m passionate about and I hope I can continue to help make an impact on people’s lives.

Can you share a defining moment in your career and how it changed your perspective?
In 1982, I fell 55 feet from an oil rig during a routine procedure, which caused permanent paralysis from the waist down.  But, I decided to concentrate on the things I could do and not to worry about the things I could no longer do.  I decided to accomplish new goals by: envisioning the steps, counting the cost, paying the price and never giving up on my dreams.  This led me to walk 24 miles with braces and crutches, row 3,280 miles across America (Guinness World Record), become a vice president with CSC and most importantly, be the best husband and father I could be.  I fail all the time, but still accomplish more than someone afraid to try.

What is Human Sigma and how does it help position CSC for the future?
Human Sigma is measuring and improving client and employee engagement in such a way it increases customer and employee loyalty and profits.  The approach focuses on taking disciplined, sustainable measures to better manage, recruit and reward employees.  In turn, this effort enhances customer-employee engagement, which ultimately can lead to increased overall financial performance.  Human Sigma is directly aligned with CSC’s new culture of being more purposeful, proactive and collaborative.

What do you think makes a good manager?
I believe a good manager is a leader who is not afraid to make tough, ethical decisions during difficult times.  They stand up for what is right, even if it’s not the most popular belief. Good managers can motivate their subordinates and their peers, into achieving more than they would have otherwise. 

How can employees continue to improve their management skills at CSC?
I encourage employees to take training in Lean/Six Sigma and Performance Management.  Also, finding a mentor, whether internal to CSC or someone in your external network, can help you define your career objectives and how to meet them.  Finally, I think it’s important to remember that one person is capable of achieving many things, but you can do even more by forming teams to make what seems impossible, possible.

As part of the clean-out of Queensbridge, CSC invited community service groups, charities, non-profit organizations and local sporting clubs to avail themselves of various surplus items free-of-charge. This was made possible by the kind donation of a central warehouse for the holding and pick-up by the various groups and the donation by our removalists, Allied Pickford, to transport the surplus items there.

The items were also made available to individuals and small businesses in return for a donation to the St. Vincents - MacKillop Family Services organization, which works with disadvantaged children, young people and their families. The offer was well received by the various groups and ,which expressed their gratitude with letters and certificates of appreciation, and they highlighted on their own Web sites the fantastic support and kind generosity of CSC.

Other major beneficiaries from our move included Save the Children Fund (provides health, education and child protection for children in marginalized circumstances) and The Youth Junction, Inc. ( a service in Melbourne that provides housing, education, health, legal and newly arrived support to young people, assisting over 1,200 young people a month).

The benefit to the various groups is enormous, but at little or no cost to CSC. However the financial savings of not having to commit additional capital for disposal is considerable.

We stripped down and recycled the 385 workstations left behind. All contents including general trash were processed via the split-waste method.

How much did we recycle?

• Over 1.5 tons of paper and cardboard
• 29.775 tons of metal
• 320 kg of hard plastics
• 3.082 tons of aluminum

The total volume committed to a landfill for the Queensbridge cleanup filled only a single 6-cubic-meter bin—for a move of 385 people!

When I’m not working on my music, I’m working for CSC. I work 200 percent of the time.  I rehearse three to four times a week. I also take care of my band’s MySpace page, merchandise, media interviews and working with my record label. It’s very busy but it’s fun, because I’m doing things I really like doing. I like performing, and I like my job at CSC.

I’ve been playing music for a very long time, and have lived in many countries across Europe. I decided to go on X-Factor because it was a very efficient and fast way to get to meet people in Denmark’s music business.

Going on X-Factor and performing on the finale was really exciting. Half of the country watched the finals because it was broadcast on the national channel. I made a lot of good music industry contacts, and I was contacted shortly afterward by producer/songwriter Søren Andersen, who is part owner of the well-known Medley Studios in Copenhagen.

Søren had been on tour with former Whitesnake band members Tommy Aldridge and Marco Mendoza. Together we produced and recorded my latest album “Get Ready,” which was released in Denmark September of this year. It will be released in Germany, Sweden, Benelux and other countries across Europe in early 2009, with the USA to follow.

Now it’s just been confirmed that I’ll be the opening act for Whitesnake in Copenhagen in December, which I am really excited about.

Learn more about Oliver at www.myspace.com/oliverweersband.

Over 200 riders, including CSC customers, dressed in CSC-branded cycling gear to ride distances ranging from 50 to 250 km (about 31 to 155 miles). Team CSC raised $17,000 (AUS) in funds to support The Smith Family, a charity that provides educational assistance to disadvantaged children and their families. Employees and customers had the opportunity to meet Matthew Goss from Team CSC Saxo Bank.

CSC took this opportunity to present framed yellow cycling jerseys signed by team members to the charities which our Australian staff have nominated to support over the next three years—the Cancer Council of Australia, the Royal Flying Doctor Service and beyondblue.

Thureen joins 108 other leading business women from around the nation who were nominated by their colleagues, peers and mentors for the honor.

“To be successful in today’s corporate world, I believe you must have integrity, respect for people, a desire to continue to advance your education and a commitment to teamwork,” said Thureen. “You must set high standards for yourself and deliver what you promise. I also believe you need to find a strong mentor.”

“This award reflects Sheri’s technical knowledge, approach to teamwork and commitment to excellence,” said James W. Sheaffer, president of CSC’s North American Public Sector line of business. “She exemplifies the passion, responsiveness and innovation for which CSC is known, and we are honored to have her on our team. We are proud of her much-deserved acknowledgement and her continued dedication to helping American government agencies achieve excellence in executing their core missions.”

With 21 years of information technology experience, Thureen has an extensive background in enterprise resource planning and business reengineering transformations, infrastructure upgrades and sales and marketing initiatives. She has worked on global projects spanning Europe, Asia and the U.S.  Her educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in computer science and psychology from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., and a master of business administration in international relations degree from the University of Delaware.

HE&IT magazine ranked Jimenez in the Most Important Hispanics in Technology list for 2008. Editors researched and evaluated thousands of employees from 100 candidate companies and then ranked the highest-achieving Hispanic executives, technologists and researchers in industry, government and academia who demonstrated leadership on a broad front in the workplace and in their communities. Jimenez was honored during the Most Important Hispanics in Technology dinner in Dallas, Texas, on Oct. 24.

Jimenez was also selected as one of this year’s top 100 IT executives by HITEC, a council founded by senior Hispanic executives who have built outstanding careers in IT and have a strong desire and passion to make an impact within the Hispanic community.

“These honors reflect Jose’s commitment to both the information technology and Hispanic communities,” said James W. Sheaffer, president of CSC’s North American Public Sector line of business. “With more than 30 years of experience spanning both the public and private sectors, Jose brings deep knowledge and extensive expertise to his leadership of our public sector’s strategy and development function.”

In 1997, a refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo came to the Netherlands, and began to send books in French to help create a library in Mikondo, a part of Kinshasa in the DR Congo. His dream was to create an educational and social center for the people of Mikondo, who lack financial and educational opportunities to develop themselves.

I met him in 2000 and got involved, and with the support of our church group, we created a foundation. Along with the people in Mikondo, the foundation set up a primary school, and today we still help the school by: 

• Finding sponsors (please for information)

• Collecting ink cartridges

• Organizing short cycle tours to raise funds

• And this year, for the seventh time, we are holding a flower bulb auction.

We do everything we can to offer good education to the very poor children in Mikondo.

Every year, about 400 children benefit and about 20 personnel make a living with our help. We try to think of new fundraising ideas all the time because we want the primary school to continue on and on. For the future, we dream about a vocational school for 12- to 16-year-old children, but as always, it depends on money. People in Mikondo cannot pay for this school, and education is not free. But if I look at the picture above, I know why we work so hard.

To learn more, e-mail or visit www.mikondo.org.

He adds that Julich’s participation was a highlight and inspiration for the other cyclists. “It was great for our clients and partners to be able to spend some time and talk with Bobby about his experience as a professional rider.”

Participants chose to ride a 100-, 62- or 15-mile course along California’s picturesque Pacific Coast Highway. The day also included a run/walk event, as well as a post-race celebration with pop band “Black Eyed Peas.”

This year’s Challenge raised more than $3.6 million for Best Buddies, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. To learn more and sign up for next year’s race, visit the event’s Web site. 

It’s 10 o’clock on the second night of CSC’s 2008 Technology & Business Solutions Conference. Two hours into an electrifying show that opened with Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Travelin’ Band, both the audience and the performers are still going strong.

“Music is a global unifier, a universal language,“ says vocalist and CSC business process architect Jill McNeil, the driving force behind CSC’s Global Jam. “Even if your mannerisms or culture or idioms are misunderstood country to country, music like oldies rock and roll is something everyone can tune into and share at the very deepest level.“

As the band seamlessly segues from Love Shack to the Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams — with Gwennie Collins, a global security solutions learning manager from Annapolis, Md., at the microphone — it’s hard to believe that, just two days before, most of the members not only had never performed together but had never even met face-to-face. (Read entire story.)