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149. Handling the IT of a School District with Mark Schumann

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mark Schumann Mark Schumann is the IT Director of New Ulm School District in the state of Minnesota. At his current position, Mark has over 2,000 end users. He has worked in the IT industry since 1995, starting his career in the Minnesota National Guard as a Communication Repair Specialist. From there, he progressed to IT support staff, Network Administrator, and now Director of IT. At the Southwest Minnesota State University, Mark graduated with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Handling the IT of a School District with Mark Schumann Listen in as we discuss why so many people in IT have military backgrounds, how a school district handles a pandemic, and the best way to make end users care about IT.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:13.9

Today we have Mark Schumann.

0:16.3

I'm positive.

0:17.4

I had to have done that right.

0:18.6

I pronounced that last name.

0:19.5

You did do that right.

0:22.4

Good. Phil's not hard. You can get Phil, but Mark's not bad.

0:26.1

IT director at New Oams School District with over 2,000 end users and a team to support probably a bunch of

0:37.2

people that might actually be smarter at technology than we are nowadays.

0:40.8

I don't know if that happens to you every now and then if kids hack anything.

0:43.7

Yeah, that is always the question of like the kids going, how come we can do this?

0:49.6

So yeah, let's just go back in time, though.

0:53.1

Let's go back in time.

1:03.2

What, let's go, well, first, what do your, what do the kids have nowadays that you didn't have when you were in high school?

1:13.4

Everything. Exactly. I remember, did you have the little clear, like, mimograph sheets or whatever those things were that we put on an overhead projector?

1:19.0

So we did have that. I forgot even what those were called, but that was like high tech.

1:26.2

Yeah, what were they called? I want to say least, no, it wasn't laser fish. It was, uh... What year did you graduate?

1:28.8

Uh, 96.

1:29.9

Oh, cool.

1:30.5

So we're like the same age, pretty much, except I stayed back in first grade.

1:33.7

So you're like maybe a couple years younger than me.

1:36.1

So you were around during the dawn of the internet.

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