A STORY THAT STARTS WITH TRUE SUCCESS AND AMAZING DETERMINATION

Lynette made her own way in life coming from a poor area In Brooklyn, New York. She started in the late 70’s as a receptionist for a Pioneer PC software company specializing in creating distribution markets for young software authors like Bill Gates, Seymour Rubenstein, Mitch Kapor to name a few. It was at this company that Lynette changed her original birth name to her Business name Lynette Spano of which she used for 4 decades till December 2019. "Life has a way of coming full circle to start out as Lynette Vives to Lynette Spano back to her original name Lynette Vives. Typical of the all American dream, she branched out on her own and started SCI in her mother’s basement. Lynette’s drive and determination built a 500-plus person company realizing $50 million in revenue as a US federal government contractor with clients like Department of Energy, Homeland Security, EPA and the US Coast Guard. Overcoming not only the challenges of being Latina and one of the first woman in the IT field in the early 80’s coupled with financial challenges and later with a life-threatening illness, Lynette epitomized the true meaning of determination, tenacity, perseverance and faith in one self, creating one of the few large woman-owned federal contracting companies in the Federal space at that time. Family: Lives in Fairfax and New York