Nathan Erickson

info@nathanjerickson.com

About Me

I am a Computer Science sophomore at the University of Minnesota: Twin Cities . I wish to pursue a career in software engineering or as a system administrator.

My hobbies are computer gaming, trumpet playing, traveling, listening to classic rock, and watching college football and hockey.

Skills

The software that I am best with are Microsoft Visual Studio, Unreal Engine, and Eclipse.

The programing languages that I have the most experience with are  C++, and, Java 

I also mine Bitcoin therefor I have a basic understanding of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Events

In highschool I was a member and later captain of their First Robotics Competition Team, as a programmer. Our robot was programmed in Java.

So far in college I am a member of my colleges cryptocurrency club which discusses blockchain, cryptocurrency, and investing in crypto. I also ranked 37 out of 3000+ people in a CTF like event run by IBM called the IBM vault. This allowed me to travel to a joint IBM MIT research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Work Experience

Target: June - August 2017

I worked at a Target in Duluth, Minnesota durring the summer or my junior year of highschool. Here I learned about the basics of customer service as well as inventory management. Though it was a summer highschool job I still learned the fundementals of working with a team at work.

City of Duluth: Public Works and Utilities June - August 2018, May - August 2019

I worked for the city of Duluth's department of public works and utilities as a temporary maintenance worker. Here I learned more teamwork skills as well as learned autonomy in the work place as the supervisor was not able to oversee all of the employees at a given time.