IT/Reporting Intern – Urban Outfitters Inc.
During my time at Urban Outfitters Inc., I spent time as an IT/Reporting intern working under the supervision of project manager, Ben Novack, and IT Director of Enterprise Reporting and Marketing Systems, Paul Reigel. I worked with several technologies such as a IBM Netezza IDE called Aginity in order to generate SQL queries in a database that I was assigned. The other was a business intelligence and analytics software called MicroStrategy that I used to alter free form SQL statements to add parameters for users. While documenting my findings, I used Microsoft Visio to create data diagrams that showed the flow of data within the very convoluted database I was working with.
I was tasked with the opportunity to analyze and delineate a database on a project called TradeStone containing approximately 70 tables and tens of millions of records. I documented my findings and participated in weekly progress status meetings where I led the discussion when talking about the TradeStone project. Visio was a technology that I leaned on to visualize data quickly and simply that could be shared electronically.
I learned an abundant amount of information during this internship, include some hard skills, soft skills, and improved my business acumen. Seeing in person how a highly successful organization runs their day-to-day IT was very eye-opening and has helped prepare me for future success potentially at Urban or at another company.