Club IT Paper

Club IT Heather Chuan Axia College 6/10/2012

Club IT is a nightclub located in a downtown music venue and which is owned by Ruben Keys and Lisa Tejada. In 2005 both of the owner’s graduated with a degree in Business Administration and followed their dreams to own this nightclub. They have accomplished several tasks and learned from experiences with their music which helped them gain the experience to own this nightclub. After remodeling the interior of the Club IT, the owners are pleased to see their money is spent well and not wasted. Not only does the nightclub play great music through a MP3 playlist, but in addition they have funds to hire live bands for the weekends and during part of the week they hire a DJ to keep the crowd pumped up and to keep having fun.

Club IT has a lot of good information systems to help keep track of finances and billing. They have a computer that only employees can use to gain information to change the song type of the MP3 player. The log in is clubit and the password is havefun so it is pretty easy for the employees to make sure the guests are having a good time and are choosing music wisely. Also, there is a bar in this facility which operates at employees fingertips with a screen that is touch screen. This helps the employees see the options and look at the different categories with drinks and food options. Also to provide any mistakes these systems have pop up screens pop up to ask the employee if the item is correct and if they are ready to proceed.

This nightclub saves certain music in a computer database to let the company see what type of music the customers prefer so Club IT can play it again. Also, the club has a different internet server to manage their accounts and budgets. This information has to be put in manually by the owners but it is set up to automatically calculate what the budget is looking like and inputting this information helps the company stay on top of these resources. This information is automatically saved to a hard disk drive in which if there is a problem with any servers then this disk already has the saved information on it to start with. Owners Ruben and Lisa are very detailed people and are the type of owners that have the “hands on” method to gain information. For instance, Lisa will work with the bar tender for a night and then each night switch between departments to see what needs improvement and what works for the club to succeed. Lisa enjoys the one on one contact she gets with the customers and the feedback that is provided back to her. On the other hand, Ruben will make sure that the equipment is working properly for the bands and the DJ’s. He also likes to make sure the club is presentable so he is checking the lighting, sound quality and making sure everything in the club is in proper working order.

Ruben and Lisa is letting me intern with them for a few months to see what it takes to keep this operation up and running. If I do have to say I thought there was not much that was into keeping this business up and running but I was wrong. There are numerous things to consider such as keeping the customers happy is one and also making sure all the paperwork is up to date to avoid any issues with their finances or security of the operations. Another aspect to include would be that this club has to keep up with security cameras all over the club. This helps maintain any issues that might occur and put a stop to them immediately. This also has a server to back up the information to and record it for the business purposes.

All in all going into this internship has definitely been an eye opening experience for me. It caught me off guard with everything that is consisted with the operations of this specific music venue. I would say that Ruben and Lisa have a good sense of what is being done and making sure it is maintained. Different aspects of the different technologies that I have witnessed is amazing and makes me interested to find out more about these different technologies.