While Warwick is well known as the crossroads of Southern New England, it is quickly gaining a reputation as an ideal site for high-tech businesses. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which provides information technology services to commercial and government markets, is the latest high-tech firm to open an office in Warwick. Recognized internationally for its computer expertise, CSC selected the city’s Metro Center Park as home for a satellite office.
The Warwick office will provide outsourcing services to major New England businesses like General Dynamics (including the Electric Boat Division), Raytheon, J.P. Morgan, and Polaroid. The office personnel will integrate, program, maintain, and operate computer systems for large corporations. Most will be computer consultants and systems integrators.
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“Our central location and its high quality of life make the city a good site for high-tech businesses,” says Warwick’s Barbara Caniglia, Director, Department of Economic Development. “Add to that the prime office space available in our industrial parks as well as the city’s proximity to T.F. Green Airport and it’s easy to see why firms like Computer Sciences Corporation want to come here.”
The new office will have space for 60 employees. Of these, about 35 will relocate from other CSC offices. The rest will come from local sources, including a job fair the company held in April. Previously, the company had a small presence in Rhode Island at the General Dynamics/Quonset Point facility, which CSC will keep.
“One reason we chose Rhode Island was its labor force,” says Kenneth Brindamour, who will be the senior account executive at the Warwick office. “Rhode Island has a large pool of highly skilled technical people, the kind of people that can provide the high-tech expertise we need to meet our clients’ needs,” he adds.
The Warwick site is associated with CSC’s Norwich, Connecticut, office, the largest New England hub in the company’s network. Employees of the Warwick office will report to Kevin Gaulin, who heads the application development services operation nationwide.
Founded in 1959, CSC specializes in management consulting, information systems consulting and integration, and outsourcing. In addition to Rhode Island, the company has more than 700 facilities and customer sites worldwide, most of which are in North America, Europe, and Australia. It also has facilities and customer sites in Asia and South America, as well as in Japan, Kuwait, and Puerto Rico.
CSC employs more than 47,000 people, including experts in management consulting, systems integration, and systems management and operations. The company’s staff also includes specialists in a broad range of vertical industries as well as computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, astronomers, medical doctors and engineers in fields ranging from robotics to multimedia. CSC’s corporate headquarters are in El Segundo, CA.
