(Audubon) The Audubon County Board of Supervisors approved a hiring resolution on Tuesday for a full-time IT Director.
Benjamin Linde comes from Carroll County where he was an IT Assistant. Here’s Supervisor’s Chairman Doug Sorensen. “He’s a very qualified person. We actually interviewed two very qualified people and had to choose between the two. It kind of came down to proximity. He lives in Manning and won’t have to move. We had a good rapport with him and I think this is going to be a really good hire.”
Linde will fill a vacancy they’ve been looking to fill for a long time. “A year ago we were paying for IP Pathways for IT support and there’ just an awful lot of IT in the county.” Sorensen says, “You have more servers, hardware, things to take care of, more downloads, more software and downloads, more security issues.” Sorensen believes, “It’s to the point where you need to have your own in house person. Someone that understands it and can represent the county and do what’s best for the county rather than hire an outside firm. That’s what we were doing, hiring an outside firm, but they are always selling products.”
Linde’s first day in Audubon County will be October 11th.
