Articles from the 'On The Job' series


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  • Putting the social back in online media

    Ken Knutson|Updated Jun 8, 2022

    Hinsdale native Evan Floersch enjoys making the digital landscape more accessible for the little guy. "As long as I'm doing something that is re-engineering backwards systems, I think I'm going to be fulfilled doing it," Floersch said by phone from the Austin, Texas, office of his start-up, Astek Network. The 2015 Hinsdale Central graduate recently launched the venture, described in company materials as "an altruistic social technology, which combines the original creation,...

  • New nurse takes on crucible of COVID

    Ken Knutson|Updated Sep 15, 2021

    When Hinsdale native Andrea Kopp decided to pursue nursing as a livelihood, she never expected to launch her career in the middle of pandemic. Now, almost two months into her nurse residency program in the intensive care unit of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., the Hinsdale Central 2017 alum said her work, while intense, is what she has long felt called to do. "I've always wanted to help people in some sort of health aspect," Kopp said late last...

  • Helping in the healing

    Ken Knutson|Updated Jan 29, 2020

    Hinsdale pharmacist Steve Hiemenz said his professional paradigm has less to do with pill dispensing and more to do with patient management. And that's just fine with him. "My ultimate goal as a pharmacist is to work in a pharmacy that doesn't have any medications on the shelf," he said. Perhaps that will be reality one day at Elm Plaza Pharmacy, which Hiemenz opened nearly 20 years ago in the medical building at 908 N. Elm St. His day typically starts around 6 a.m. "I go...