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Computer Gurus

Screaming Eagle Article - April 2002 - by Jaclyn Platt, 8th Grade

Whenever teachers and staff here at Chaminade have a computer problem, or email troubles, or even just need help setting up the e-buddy cart or the LCD for a lesson, who do they turn to?  It’s not Ms. Hunter, not the deans, and not even Batman!  Instead, Chaminade has its own form of technological superheroes—the middle school MIS department.

Not many students know about these two wireless crusaders who basically keep the technological world revolving here at Chaminade, but all the teachers sure do!  These two people are Tom Dluzak, the network manager, and Mark Dietel, his assistant.

Mrs. Kane, 8^th grade social studies teacher and one of the deans, said, “They do everything for me.  They fix my computer and they help me with my printer problems.  Yet, as a dean, they help me with my files, getting in and out of them, and fixing any problems that are created…  They help me with everything, and there aren’t enough nice things you can say about them.”

Their job here at Chaminade is to maintain the servers, fix problems, test new technology, fix software, and recommend upgrades to all the computers.

Dluzak works eight to nine hours each day, and Dietel works four hours each day.  This even includes the summer!  When students and teachers are busy resting and relaxing, Dluzak and Dietel are hard at work making sure that everything is up and running for the next school year.

You would figure when the sum of their working hours is longer than children go to school each day, these two men would have enough time in the day to finish their job, yet they still don’t.  A day at work for Dluzak and Dietel, our two computer gurus, is very hectic because there is always something needing fixing or updating because the computer technology is always changing.  As Dluzak explained, there’s a lot to be done, and “there is not enough time in the day.”

Dietel described the best part of his job as, “getting to work, to exert himself with the new technology.”

Dluzak agreed with Dietel but in a different way.  He said that the best part of the work was, “being transparent and fixing computers.”

Even though these two men have the same basic ideas about work, or should it be said, having fun, they still enjoy what they do with their lives.

Mr. Fremed, like many teachers here, is in awe of their technological savvy.  “They help me with any computer problems, and they have not yet been able not to answer any questions.”