COMPUTER SYSTEMS CENTER INCORPORATED CEO HONORED
AS A “WOMEN WHO MEAN BUSINESS”
Linda LaRoche Recognized as one of the Region’s Most Influental Business Women
Springfield, VA—November 17, 2005—Computer Systems Center Incorporated (CSCI), a highly specialized systems integration and professional services firm, today announced that CEO Linda LaRoche was named one of greater Washington, D.C.’s ‘Women Who Mean Business,’ honoring the Washington region’s most influential and powerful women executives. The Washington Business Journal selected 25 honorees from a pool of more than 200 nominations.
The award recognizes established business women from all industries and professions who have made a difference in their communities, blazed a trail for other women in various industries, and are leaving a mark on Washington business.
“I attribute my success to my business partner, Joe Link, to my family and to the CSCI employees,” LaRoche said.
A self-made, influential business woman, LaRoche has successfully infiltrated a male-dominated market and gained the respect of her male counterparts all while running a successful business, staying devoted to the community, sitting on the board of a local nonprofit organization and staying a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
“My family, over the course of the last 19 years, has endured my long work hours, the financial strains of starting a business, and the hosting of countless business meetings that occurred at our house on any given day or time,” LaRoche has said.
As an entrepreneur, LaRoche co-founded CSCI in 1987 with a promise to always recognize her employees’ entrepreneurial spirits and to welcome their ideas; a practice which she said “enables my employees to take pride in their work and in the company. I would not be here today without CSCI’s employees … (who) continually demonstrate their dedication to their clients, their desire to be Honest Brokers and most importantly, their aspiration to ‘Make It Happen’.”
As part of her commitment to the local community, LaRoche has supported the Springfield, VA chapter’s March of Dimes WalkAmerica since 1998. Just this year, the CSCI team raised more than $5,500, which LaRoche matched, making CSCI’s contribution more than $10,000. With LaRoche’s guidance and support, the company also founded the Santa Sac project which each year provides necessities and gifts to needy families in the Northern Virginia area during the holiday season.
Because of CSCI’s role as a government contracting company and LaRoche’s personal commitment to the lives of the men and women in uniform, this CEO led her company to form the SemperComm Foundation in 2004.
SemperComm provides communications and entertainment tools to small and isolated overseas bases via CSCI’s flagship product, Trusted Information Infrastructure™ (TII™).
Because TII is the only technology that is certified and accredited at Protection Level 3 (PL3) by the Department of Defense, LaRoche realized that it would ensure the troops that their communications were being kept highly secured.
With TII as the infrastructure, the communications site has three major components which include: a public site for the general visitor wanting to know more about the foundation; required permission–based access private discussion area available only to the service members in remote bases and their families; and required permission–based access “public” site only viewable to the service members, CSCI employees, SemperComm partners and sponsors and SemperComm gala committee members.
LaRoche’s initiative provides service members with the ability to stay connected with their loved ones while deployed, no matter how remote the base where they are stationed. Through SemperComm the troops at the remote bases are also given a complete suite of entertainment tools, including computers, internet access, televisions, movie projectors, video cameras and more.
With her professional and community successes, LaRoche has proven to be a role model for women everywhere, no matter their industry or profession.
About Computer Systems Center Incorporated (CSCI)
Computer Systems Center Incorporated (CSCI) is a unique, small technology company that is raising the bar and setting a new way of conducting business as government contractors, mainly working in the Department of Defense (DOD). Founded in 1987, CSCI provides technical counsel to its government clients in a wide range of disciplines applying operations analysis, modeling and simulation, architecture development, systems engineering, and Information Technology development and design in the area of emerging technology. Headquartered in Springfield, Va., CSCI has a presence in Patuxent River, Md.; San Diego, Calif.; Orlando, Fla.; and Norfolk, Va., employing more than 150 employees. For more information about CSCI, please visit the Web site at http://www.csci-va.com.