Tyler Southwick

I am a 19 year old Eagle Scout who studies computer science at Northern Kentucky University. I am a hard working person who is dedicated to being the best I can be at when it comes to working with computers. I am currently looking for a paid internship to gain some experience in the field. I am willing to learn new things and I want to increase my knowledge in stuff that I already know.

I started out building my own computer; with an all AMD setup containing a RX 6600 GPU, a 5700X CPU, 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of Storage on an NVME SSD. I then was gifted a 5900X and upgraded that,I added a 1TB SATA SSD and a 2 TB Hard Disk Drive, then added more RAM so i got 32 GB. The Computer is dual booting Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu is my main PC and Windows is for the applications that don't work on Linux! My hope is that eventually linux will become supported enough to where I wont need to have Windows on there at all!

I am currently running the entire Internet network in my house right now. While my dad did all of the hardware and cabling mostly before I was born, I manage and set up all of the routers. There is a modem in our basement that has the fiber cable in it and it has a cable going into our main router at home. this is the DHCP server handing out IP addresses and I use this to set static IP's on the network. I also have 3 slave routers around the house and in our game room building that extend the WIFI range. Each with a IP that sets it on the network and has DHCP turned off so that its not conflicting with the main router

I love to learn about history and about tragedies that have happened throughout history. 2 events I like learning about are the sinking of the Titanic and the Chernobyl disaster. But I also like political history and learning about the American government, my favorite period to learn about would be the colonial times and the American Revolution and the Civil War. However, recently I have enjoyed learning about the World Wars and the Cold War.

I got the rank of Eagle Scout when I was17 on February 21st, 2021. My project was I led the building of a food pantry at my old elementary school. I got on calls with Kroger to donate a refrigerator and shelving for them to properly store food. Then I got my scout troop together and had them build all of the shelves and move them into the pantry.

• Kentucky STLP engineer
• National Honor Society
• Eagle Scouts of America