Fifteen years of fixing things.
iFixOmaha opened in 2011 in a basement, with one workbench and a belief that the things people already own are worth saving. Over time we grew into neighborhood storefronts across the Omaha metro: Papillion, Orchard West, Southwestern Plaza, Eagle Run Square, WestPoint, the UNO campus, and our final home on Cass Court.
We were a pioneering member of Apple's Independent Repair Provider program. We were among the first independent repair brands in the country to qualify our technicians for CTIA WISE certification. We partnered with Metropolitan Community College to build the first postsecondary credentialed training program in mobile device repair in the nation, and we launched Reboot Central at MCC's Digital Express as the first facility of its kind, a public repair service desk built for the North Omaha community.
We showed up at the Nebraska legislature to testify for Right to Repair. In 2016 on the panel for LB1072, and again in 2017 before the Judiciary Committee on LB67, because Nebraskans deserve the fair and reasonable right to choose who fixes their own things. We trained hundreds of technicians. We fixed phones, tablets, and laptops for students, teachers, pastors, nurses, truck drivers, contractors, and a lot of kids who needed their first iPhone to last one more year.
We tried to fix what was broken, with whoever was willing to roll up their sleeves. That was always the whole point.