Wm. Josiah Erikson, who goes by Josiah, came to UMass Amherst in the fall of 2022 after 25 years at Hampshire College, where he served in a variety of roles, including student, Sysadmin, Network Engineer, Staff Trustee, HPC Engineer, academic support for the School of Natural Science and then Cognitive Science, Assistant Director of IT for Infrastructure and Telecommunications Systems, Associate Director of IT for Infrastructure and Web Services, and Hampshire College rep to the Five College CIO Meetings. He loves to solve problems creatively, appropriately, and in context, build and lead invested, inspired teams, and build solutions that are reliable and right-sized. He finally graduated from Hampshire College in 2020, and during the course of his 23-year-long undergraduate career, worked on several animated short films and mobile games, and his Division III was an oral history of the events of 2019 at Hampshire College as seen through the eyes of its employees. He also loves to ride bicycles, go on road trips, play music, and hike. He is excited to be part of the team at UMass Amherst!