Browsing by Subject "National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses"

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    Oral history interview with Grace Gentry
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2008-08-11) Gentry, Grace
    IT contracting pioneer Grace Gentry briefly discusses her education and early career prior to co-founding Richard E. Gentry, Inc., (later Gentry, Inc.) with her husband, and running this company for more than two decades. This firm was among the first IT services brokerages and was one of the founding members of that industry’s trade association, the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB). Grace Gentry served as president of the NACCB and was active in the organization for many years. Primary topics and themes of the interview include: forming the company, early growth, marketing/selling, managerial strategies, industry dynamics, impact and changes with Section 1706 of the federal tax code, NACCB, business ethics, women-owned businesses, gender and entrepreneurship, and the sale of Gentry, Inc.
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    Oral history interview with Phyliss Murphy
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2008-12-18) Murphy, Phyliss
    This oral history details the career of computer services entrepreneur Phyliss Murphy and offers an important perspective on the history of the supplemental IT staffing industry. She discusses her early training and work in accounting, shifting to programming and direction of IT operations, move to managing projects and IT services operations at Consumer Systems (headquartered in Chicago), forming her own IT staffing firm in Southern California (Phyliss Murphy and Associates), and running this firm for the past twenty-eight years. She also provides perspective on the significance of trade associations for the IT supplemental staffing industry—including SC-SCBA and the NACCB.