The topic of leadership has been a passion and a curiosity of Steve’s since he was a young man…When he was in high school in Coffeyville, Kansas he read about great military leaders, war heroes, famous sports coaches, business entrepreneurs, etc…in fact he believes that this curiosity drove and motivated him to apply for an
In the fall of 1957 Bud began his data processing career with Rio Grande National Life Insurance Company in Dallas Texas as an operator on punch card equipment. He worked at night and attended Arlington State College during the day In 1959, Rio Grande installed an IBM 305 RAMAC vacuum tube computer. They followed up
As RevUnit co-founder and CTO, Michael Paladino has assembled and managed a renowned team of software developers that have shaped the Bentonville tech company into one of the most successful startups in the nation. RevUnit grew by 393 percent from 2015 to 2017, landing it on the “Inc. 5000” list of the fastest-growing private companies
“Mathematics is the key to opportunity and success.” Those are the words Suzanne Mitchell heard from eighth grade through college from her father. Even Christine Poindexter, Suzanne’s mathematics teacher at Central High School in Little Rock, encouraged her in both mathematics and computer science. As her husband moved around while in the Air Force, Suzanne
In 1984 Robert took part in the first programming class offered at Watson Chapel High School, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, this sparked his interest in computing. After a stint in retail at Dillard’s and Radio Shack, Robert graduated with his degree in Computer Information Systems at UA Monticello and began working at Arkansas Systems in
C.J. Duvall has served in various capacities in the technology industry with primary responsibilities in human capital management. Duvall’s first exposure into the field of technology came as a result of conducting research by writing Fortran programs working under quantitative Psychologist, Oliver CS Tzeng while securing a Master’s in Industrial Psychology from the Purdue School
Ben Hasan joined the Global People team as Chief Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Officer in 2015. In this global role Ben and his team are responsible for the continued development of the healthy evolution of the company’s culture, the development of behaviors that embrace diversity and inclusion at all levels of the company and the
Claire Bailey is Compuware’s Director of Federal, State and Local Mainframe Solutions. She has worked in technology since 1984 and has worked with the mainframe in every role she has held throughout her IT career. In her current role at Compuware, Claire leads U.S. public sector efforts and strategies to help government technologists understand the
Nitin Agarwal is a millennial, born in Delhi, India, who grew up with personal computers and the internet. It was the limitless possibilities of applications and evolution in social behavior that intrigued him from the beginning and led to his first computer programs. He still treasures the five-and-quarter inch floppy disks that store the computer