Remote Work Radio

In this special 4-part series of Remote Work Radio, we are interviewing tech entrepreneurs from Southern Utah. Joshua Aikens, one of our past program participants and chair of the Silicon Slopes St. George Chapter, will interview founders who started tech companies outside of urban areas. On this episode, Josh interviews Brian Green, co-founder and CTO of Aptivada, an enterprise software solution for TV and radio stations. Brian and his cousin Creighton founded Aptivada in 2010 which now has over a thousand of the top TV and radio stations in the country using its platform. They have set themselves apart from other vendors in this space by creating an extremely easy to use platform that includes the most important digital products all under one roof. The Aptivada platform, coupled with their industry leading consulting and support has given them the opportunity to work with many of the largest names in this industry.

In this special 4-part series of Remote Work Radio, we are interviewing tech entrepreneurs from Southern Utah. Joshua Aikens, one of our past program participants and chair of the Silicon Slopes St. George Chapter, will interview founders who started tech companies outside of urban areas. On this episode, Josh interviews Skylar and Travis Topham, brothers who started out as health-care specialists in hearing in 2012. When they realized that medical and patient data wasn't digitized, and hearing centers had to navigate confusing paper trails to purchase devices or file insurance claims, they founded Smartcare, an audiology business platform and billing service offering a more efficient way to serve independent practices and their patients.

In this special 4-part series of Remote Work Radio, we are interviewing tech entrepreneurs from Southern Utah. Joshua Aikens, one of our past program participants and chair of the Silicon Slopes St. George chapter, will interview founders who started tech companies outside of urban areas. On this episode, Josh interviews Ryan Kohler, co-founder of ApplicantPro about his experience starting a hiring software company in 2006 and growing it to over 6,000 users across the nation. Ryan's mission is to help companies, managers, and HR teams improve their hiring results. To do this, he and his team strive to create educational content, tools, integrations, and software to help businesses drive their hiring results. Because he is an entrepreneur and owns a business that involves working with thousands of HR folks, Ryan understands what it takes to bridge the gap between an organization's vision and the goals of HR. He is an HRCI and SHRM-CP approved provider and enjoys sharing his knowledge to help make hiring processes more strategic. He currently conducts weekly, free webinars and presents at SHRM events around the country.

In this episode of Remote Work Radio, our host Marta Nielson interviews Carri Beck from Iron County, Utah. Carri completed the Rural Online Initiative's Master Remote Work Professional (MRWP) certificate course and was soon after hired as a 'remote' accounting specialist for LedgerGurus. In this interview, she shares how she discovered this remote job opportunity, the hiring process with a virtual accounting firm, and how the skills she learned in the MRWP course at USU Extension made all the difference.

In this episode of Remote Work Radio, our host Marta Nielson interviews Simone Kuzma who recently moved to Escalante in Garfield County from Kentucky. Simone is a remote worker in the tourism industry for a company based in Germany. She recently completed the USU Extension Rural Online Initiative's Master Remote Work Professional certificate course and explains how aspiring remote workers can find telework jobs by stepping outside their comfort zones and putting in the hard work.

In this episode of Remote Work Radio, our host Marta Nielson interviews Pyper Lambson from Sanpete County. Pyper is a financial manager for a company in Bluffdale, Utah who opened the door to remote work within her organization. She recently completed the USU Extension Rural Online Initiative's Master Remote Work Professional certificate course which helped her improve her remote work skills so she is more productive and confident in her role. Learn how Pyper successfully transitioned her position so she could work from home in rural Utah and take care of her family.

In this episode of Remote Work Radio, our host Marta Nielson interviews Callie Ward, the USU Extension Assistant Professor in Garfield County who recently completed the Rural Online Initiative's Master Remote Work Professional certificate course. Callie provides a review of the course and explains how it is designed to support working adults by providing an experiential learning environment that mimics having an actual remote job.

In this episode of Remote Work Radio, our host Marta Nielson interviews Chelsea Guymon from Emery County. Chelsea was an early graduate of the USU Extension Rural Online Initiative's Master Remote Work Professional certificate course and became a remote worker soon after. She not only successfully negotiated with her current boss to allow her to work from home, but she was also hired as a part-time intake specialist for a physical therapy office in New York City.

In this episode of Remote Work Radio, our host Marta Nielson interviews Dr. Lendel Narine, the statewide evaluation specialist who developed the evaluation plan for the Rural Online Initiative. He explains how the ROI program is directly aligned to the statewide needs assessment he conducted in 2020 with over 1,000 subjects.

In this episode of Remote Work Radio our host Marta Nielson interviews Jeff Mottishaw with the Utah Governor's Office of Management and Budget. Jeff is leading the new Utah Works statewide telework program that is tasked with the rollout of converting 2,500 state jobs to remote by the end of 2020. Jeff shares findings from a pilot study and how implementing remote work will help improve everything from traffic and air quality to productivity, retaining talent, and saving tax dollars on the construction of new buildings.