Employee Spotlight: John Schafluetzel

John Schafluetzel is a Greeley native where he attended University High School in 1970. The summer after he graduated high school, he began his work here in the I.M.T. department as a student lab assistant. John went to college here at UNC and graduated in 74’ with a degree in business administration & CIS. After graduating college, he went to work for the state division of ADP (their department of I.T.) for a year and a half. He has been back at the UNC I.M.T. department ever since.


John is currently a half time IT Programmer/Analyst, but before that he was an assistant director for I.M.T. John has spent most of his time at work managing operating systems, database administration and operations, and systems programming. He started out as a programmer and his position evolved over 30 years of working for this department. John retired in 2005 with 30 years under his belt… and then came back!


John is married to Sandi and they have been married for 38 years. They have 4 kids, a golden retriever, 3 maltese and a cat…. But he doesn’t acknowledge the cat.


John said that his favorite thing about working for I.M.T. is the challenges. He also really enjoys working with the other people in the department as well as our customers. When asked if he would trade jobs with anyone in the world, he simply said “No, I’m retired.”