NDSU’s Information Technology Division has hired two new staff members. Nate Robideau has been hired as a telecommunications analyst in the division’s Telecommunications and Emergency Support Technologies Department. Amber Rasche has been hired as the communications coordinator for the division.

Robideau has 14 years of experience in the telecommunications field.

Before joining NDSU, Robideau was a telecommunications analyst for Essentia Health in Fargo for six years. He also previously worked as a project manager for MultibandUSA in Fargo, Eschelon Telecom in Minneapolis and ADC Broadband in Eden Prairie, Minn., and as an account manager for Ovation Communications/McleodUSA in Minneapolis.

Robideau attended Lake Superior College in Duluth, Minn., the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Rasche has worked in the Information Technology Division since 2008, when she started as a student employee communications specialist in the Information Technology Services Department. In 2011, she was hired to fill a one-year position as the communications specialist for the division. Rasche also has worked as an adjunct instructor at NDSU in the Department of Communication and in the Women and Gender Studies Program.

Rasche earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising and public relations in 2008 and a master’s degree in mass communication in 2011, both from NDSU.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.