-: My name is Rick Sullivan.
I work for a company called DXC Technology.
I serve there as vice president and general manager for
our applications development, software development business
across the company.
We are the incorporation of what was
Hewlett Packard Enterprise services.
About 110,000 people,
about an 18 billion dollar book of business
along with CSC Corporation
and together that forms about 175,000 person company.
Annually about 25 billion so new,
new launch, new startup,
but certainly a rich history of experience.
I'm real pleased and fortunate to have responsibility
for the companies direction for our
applications development and our software business.
Our software development business.
That encompasses everything from
the company strategy, who we're partnering with,
the services that we're delivering to our customers.
We are a services based company.
It's all about delivering service to our customers
and it is all about delivering value.
And so, every day we're focused on
how to we differentiate our value
and how do we make a difference with that.
And so, having real pulse on the industry,
where the industries headed, what are the demands
that we're seeing and hearing from our customers
globally and across many different industries.
Incorporating that into the next generation of services
that we're developing.
The innovation and the thought leadership
that we can bring and take to our customers.
That's all about what keeps me busy on a daily basis.
You know there's a busy good day and busy bad day.
I'll start with the challenging busy day.
That's a lot of meetings.
Back to back to back meetings.
And it may be a lot of sitting and such.
It may be working on strategy, which is great,
it's generally utilizing a different part of the brain.
It could be dealing with day to day problems
and situations that we're grappling with
in support of our customers.
A great day, is usually when I'm out in the field
and I'm with customers.
I may be traveling to their locations.
I may be going to speak at a forum.
I may be meeting with industry analysts.
So the interaction, because that's what goes and feeds
kinda the sense and respond to know
what are the pressure points that they have.
What are the needs that they have?
And that makes everything that we do real.