178. How Non-Profit IT Operates with Adam Lopez

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Adam Lopez Adam Lopez is the Vice President of Information Technology at Goodwill South Nevada. He has been in the IT industry for over 20 years and is no stranger to running things as a business owner. This combination of skills allows him to communicate at the employee level along with the C-suite executives. Adam has a B.A.S.c in Hotel Administration with a concentration in Casino Management, as well as an MBA from Western Governors University in Information Technology Administration and Management. How Non-Profit IT Operates with Adam Lopez Listen to today’s episode to hear Adam discuss the unique challenges of IT in the non-profit sector, why it’s essential to let new IT workers experience different aspects of IT, and keeping your people excited to work.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds today from Sunny Nevada,
0:17.3	Adam Lopez, and vice president information technology at the goodwill of Nevada, which is no small operation by any means.
0:30.7	A lot of times people might think, oh, my small little goodwill in town here, but no, you guys are big time.
0:40.0	How many, just out of curiosity, how many employees do you guys have, you know, locations spread across the state, just to kind
0:44.4	of give you an idea of your operation there? Yeah, absolutely. So we have a little bit less
0:50.0	than a thousand employees volunteers across our southern Nevada. No one would have thought you'd said a thousand. You mean a thousand employees volunteers across our southern Nevada.
0:54.6	No one would have thought you'd said a thousand.
0:56.5	Right.
0:57.5	You mean a thousand?
0:59.5	It's just a lot.
1:00.5	And I was, we were talking for a few seconds if you were hiring right now, you said you were
1:03.6	hiring, what are we hiring for?
1:06.0	Like help desk or a...
1:07.5	Health desk and green recycling, right?
1:09.5	So we do a lot of green recycling with, you know,
1:12.3	what do we do with those big CRTs, right?
1:14.3	What do we do with those big office jet printers that you guys have sitting around that's
1:18.8	cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to buy the...
1:22.0	Quite sad, but true.
1:24.8	Yes.
1:25.1	Yeah, I know, right?
1:26.2	So we take apart all that stuff and we get the, you know, there's a little bit of gold in
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