Connecting in a Remote Environment
An elementary student ran straight from the school bus stop into his parent’s home office and exclaimed with exasperation, “Your days are the best. You get to play games all …
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Our Purpose is Our People
Anniversaries are typically a time to look back and reflect on a specific date or time or event – certainly wedding anniversaries come to mind (note to self – order …
Prez Sez: Finding Wisdom in Unexpected Places
Here at DISTek, we have an internal newsletter that gets published monthly to keep our employee-owners up to date and informed. I’m probably a little partial since I publish it, …
Holiday Wrap-up
As we all gear up to start the new year with our best foot forward, let’s take a look at all the fun festivities DISTekians were able to enjoy over …
I’m Starting to Feel Like an Owner
Just recently I was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation for ten years of excellent service and valuable contributions to DISTek Integration. Needless to say, I’m quite thankful and happy to have been involved with DISTek for the past ten years. Wow! I’ve been employed here for ten years? It sure doesn’t feel like ten years. Maybe that’s partly because since December of 2014, I, like many others at DISTek, became employee owners, after DISTek founder Matt Dickinson decided to share a part of his company with his employees by forming an ESOP – an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. That’s right, DISTek is employee owned.
I’m not sure when…
Holiday Elves
♫It’s the most wonderful time of the year♫…..DISTek continues the tradition of giving back:
Once again this year, as in previous years, the DISTek Cedar Falls office adopted two families from the Waterloo school district to help make their Christmas a little extra special. We received a wish list from each of the families and shared these with DISTek Elves (employees) who set about fulfilling everything (and even some extra items) on their lists. As usual, Elves were very generous…
DISTek Turns 25: Past, Present, Future
The Present – Part 2
In the last phase of DISTek’s 25 years, we expanded our engineering services again. The concept of model-based software development (MBSD) had been in use for a few years at several of our off-highway customers and we had gained experience with it. But as we surveyed the market landscape……..
Summer Send-off: Back-to-School Tailgate
On a gorgeous evening, after work, employees gathered in the back lot of the DISTek Cedar Falls office, while Jeff donned his apron and manned the grill. Employees were treated to brats, burgers, sides, and beverages, while at the same time getting the chance to bolster camaraderie with their fellow DISTekians.
Blood Drive – A Simple Way to Give Back
Please join many of our fellow DISTek employee-owners on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 from noon until 4pm as we host an American Red Cross Blood Drive. We’re located in the Cedar Falls Technology Park at 6612 Chancellor Drive, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
DISTek Turns 25: Past, Present, Future
In the early 1990s, the world was in a state of change. Germany was reunified in 1990, the dissolution of the Soviet Union happened in 1991, Yugoslavia was breaking apart in 1992, while here in the USA another presidential election cycle was brewing. It was into this world that DISTek was born on April 1, 1992. Company founder, Matt Dickinson, brought his experience in electronics for the agricultural, aerospace, and factory automation industries and setup DISTek as a contract provider of embedded electronics engineering services for off-highway equipment.
