Murphy, Phyliss2011-06-162011-06-162008-12-18Phyliss Murphy, OH 399. Oral history interview by Jeffrey R. Yost, 18 December 2008, Burbank, Calif. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107541OH 399https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107541Transcript, 53 pp.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.en-USComputer historyComputer softwareGenderNational Association of Computer Consultant BusinessesPhyliss Murphy and AssociatesSouthern California Software Contracting Businesses AssociationWomen's historyOral History