Reflections from FIRST Robotics ’22-’23 Season
For more than 20+ years, DISTek has been a proud supporter of FIRST teams and FIRST events. Much of the support has been through the employee-owners of DISTek volunteering their …
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We’re Back from CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023
The DISTek Sales Team, along with Benjamin Jefferson, DISTek’s VP of Technology Development, recently made the trip out to sunny Las Vegas to attend CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 at the Las Vegas …
DISTek Named Supplier Innovation Award Winner
News Release John Deere Honors DISTek Integration, Inc. with 2022 Supplier Innovation Award CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – September 20, 2022 – DISTek Integration, Inc., an engineering services provider, was recognized …
DISTek Gears up for the iVT Expo
We are excited to announce that we will be hosting a booth (space #i1213) August 31 to September 1, at the iVT Expo in Chicago, Illinois. Having successfully broken the …
Sharing Our Why With Our Clients
Since our Why Statement was rolled out, most of the focus has been placed on how it applies to us internally here at DISTek. However, recently the Sales Team got together to discuss how we can present it externally in a way that resonates with our clients, as well. This not only equips our team with the knowledge and background when we are talking with current, as well as potential clients, but it also allows us to share more about who we are here at DISTek and what we believe in so passionately.
Cheers to 30 Years!
30 years ago DISTek founder Matt Dickinson took a leap of faith and stepped away from his Monday – Friday job at a company in the St Louis, Missouri area and started a consulting business from his basement. It is those humble beginnings that would lead to the formation of DISTek and pave the way for what it is today.
What are DISTekians Saying about Working at DISTek?
Love is in the air…. Alright, so yes, I’m a little late for the Valentine’s Day cliches, but here at DISTek we pride ourselves on continuous improvement and growth, in order to keep up employee morale, maintain an employee-first culture, and retain the best and brightest in our industry. We truly value all employee voices and strive to maintain open communication and transparency at all levels throughout the organization, to continue to be a premier workplace where our ESOP continues to flourish and benefit our employee owners.
So, what are DISTekians saying they enjoy most about being a part of the DISTek team? Check it out!
Our Team Based Approach
Here at DISTek, we value collaboration, teambuilding, and delivering unmatched value. We provide our clients with dedicated engineering teams that provide unparalleled value by freeing our clients’ time up so they can focus on broader business challenges. Our proven approach is not only extremely beneficial to our clients but brings significant value and meaning to our employee-owners, as well.
DISTek’s Why Statement
When I hear the term “why statement”, I think about a defining, short proclamation that explicitly states my purpose – the reason I get out of bed in the morning, what fuels my passion, what motivates me, and why I do what I do. Why statements can be personal in nature, but they can also exist at the company level.
Happy Halloween from DISTek
If you’ve read any of our Halloween blogs from the past, you already know that Halloween is my favorite. While this year’s annual parade of costumes was hosted as a virtual event again this year, we certainly didn’t let that discourage our fun! Please enjoy a look at this year’s costumes!
DISTek U 210: Part 2
In Part 1 of this two part series, we heard from DISTek Software Engineers Gerardo Zamora and Chad Stapes, who recently completed DISTek U 210 – a DISTek training course offered internally to engineers wanting to embark on a path of growth and prepare themselves for the next engineering tier level. Gerardo reviewed the book, Eat that Frog!, and Chad reviewed the book, You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader.
In this Part 2, Michael Barnhardt, a Software Engineer at DISTek for over 5 years, discusses, The Power of Positive Thinking in Business, and provides an overview of the final component of the DISTek U 210 course, the mentor-ship program.
DISTek U210: Part 1
DISTek U210: E2 Track is a new DISTek course offered internally to engineers wanting to learn and prepare themselves for the next engineering tier level. We use a classification of E1-E5 here at DISTek with E1 being entry level. Although, it is mostly geared towards E2s looking to set themselves up for success in becoming an E3 or senior engineer, the track also welcomes E1s wanting to learn about E2. In this class, we went over three books, had a panel discussion with senior engineers, and a mentorship project managed by the students in the class. This course also offered the benefit of networking and interacting with other DISTekians who we may not normally get the chance to work with.
In this two part series, we will talk about each of the books and the mentorship program, with the first two books being discussed by Gerardo Zamora and Chad Stapes here in Part 1, and a final book and mentorshiop being discussed by Michael Barnhardt in Part 2.
