April 10, 2017
Meet the Staff: Nick Hurst
Note: Meet the Staff is a new feature that ASCTech will be publishing over the next few months to introduce staff members to the College of Arts and Sciences. We welcome your thoughts on it.What led you into your career? A passion for problem solving and an (almost) unhealthy interest in computers led me to programming.
What led you into your career? A passion for problem solving and an (almost) unhealthy interest in computers led me to programming.
What's something about you that other people find interesting or surprising? Most people are surprised by the fact that my beard and hair are two different colors (hair is brown, beard is red), and not on purpose.
What's something praiseworthy that a client has said about you? “You have been amazing at anticipating our needs even before we could imagine them.”
Some people might call them "problems."
For Nick Hurst, they're "challenges."
Hurst, an ASCTech Applications Developer, enjoys his job because "there is a never-ending supply of new challenges to overcome. Every day I can come in and work on something that may have nothing to do with what I was working on yesterday, and that keeps me entertained."
Hurst leads development on ASCTech's GradCentral project, a student lifecycle management system for the Graduate School in the College of Arts and Sciences. In this role, he does a lot of coding. His definition of a successful day is "when I can come in, fill up the coffee mug, put on my headphones and code the day away, only having to Google the answer 50% of the time."
His love of coding extends to his free time which Hurst spends "programming personal projects or reading about new technologies." At ASCTech, Hurst gets to work on all aspects of computing from backend server coding to user experience on the front end.
If you need someone to help with your technology, request help from ASCTech and maybe you'll work with Nick Hurst.
