Media-Tech Intern, NBC Universal
A subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, NBC Universal is a premier media, broadcasting and entertainment company. The company’s massive portfolio includes many television and news networks, Universal Pictures, television production operations, Universal Resorts, and internet based business. NBC Universal is Headquartered in New York, New York.
Internship Hilights:
- Created service descriptions for four technologies offered by the Open Platform Technology team
- Evaluated open source SQL services based on factors like performance, cost, support, tooling features, scale and resiliency to determine alignment with team’s business goals
- Shared project management duties over team of nine, while developing an innovative way for NBCU to leverage Snapchat to lift its bottom line
- Organized and conducted interviews with management while gathering service description requirements for Maria DB, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL and Elastic Search
- Assessed business value brought to NBCU by applications
During my internship with NBCU, a number of my projects focused around the database and search offerings the Open Platform Technology Team provides to the Application Teams. The first project I worked on, writing technology service descriptions for our Maria DB offering, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB and Elasticsearch taught me a lot about enterprise DB services. I learned how storage engines impact performance, the security features and architectures needed to secure a database service, what technologies are used to backup databases, how database services are designed for high availability and disaster recovery, what technologies are used for monitoring, the cost drivers for DB services, how our teams provide enterprise grade support for our DB services, and more. My second project, collecting business value of applications our team supports gave me the opportunity to see real use cases for the services we offer, and how the applications we support help NBCU thrive. My third project, comparatively analyzing potential MySQL offerings such as Cloud SQL from Google and PCF MySQL tile, taught me how to think critically about whether a technology will support an enterprise’s business needs. Lastly, my work on the team Innovation Project taught me project management skills such as scheduling and coordinating meetings, setting project goals and project deadlines, creating an environment where team members feel like they are free to contribute, keeping a project on scope, and ensuring deliverables meet quality standards.