{"id":16,"date":"2023-09-11T11:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/blog\/points\/business-technology-intern\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T22:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T03:32:26","slug":"business-technology-intern","status":"publish","type":"points","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/points\/business-technology-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Technology Intern"},"content":{"rendered":"

In summer 2023, as a rising Junior, I interned at Power Home Remodeling Group as a Business Technology Intern. The position was hybrid and located at the company’s headquarters in Chester, PA. The internship was a 12-week rotational program, and I had the opportunity to work with every team in the company\u2019s Business Technology department. Power Home Remodeling Group is very dedicated to technology and innovation using creativity. I was able to work and learn in a supportive environment throughout my summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

While shadowing their Systems Support and Technology Support teams, I was able to learn about their own in-house system called Nitro. Nitro is used by every employee from the accounting department to the remodeling consultants. I sat in on meetings with third-party vendors to secure advertising leads and wiped old equipment to be recycled.<\/p>\n

I spent about a month with the Network and Site Reliability Engineers. During my time with these teams, not only did I learn so many technical skills, but I also became a part of an amazing and close-knit team. I worked in Cisco Labs to replicate the HQ network and set up IP addresses with subnetting. I c<\/span>onfigured new routers and switches using a Mac\u2019s terminal and r<\/span>e-cabeled a datacenter in HQ. One week, I was able to travel to PHRG’s<\/span>\u00a02<\/span>nd<\/span> data center location to add a new router and perform routine maintenance<\/span> and upkeep. Working with the SRE team, I learned the basics of\u00a0<\/span>Meraki, <\/span>Netbox, <\/span>Lunix, and <\/span>Docker.<\/span><\/p>\n

My most memorable time during my internship was the weeks I spent with the Data Analytics team. I was assigned a project to analyze issue, close, and sold appointments<\/span> for the Vice President of the contact center. Over 2 weeks, I m<\/span>ade an interactive Tableau dashboard containing parameters, measures, and calculations. I explored relationships between<\/span> day of week, time of day, and other factors.<\/span> I was very proud of this project because I worked on it individually with my mentor’s guidance and the final project was sent to Executives to use while making business decisions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My last two weeks, I shadowed the UX design team as well as a Producteer. I became familiar with CSS and C++ while building model sites in Code Sandbox. I saw the Agile process in action while following certain sprints and stories being completed by developers. During my time at Power Home Remodeling Group, I made many connections that will last well into the future. I learned technical skills that I could not have learned in any classes. This internship was a great learning experience and grew my passion for business technology and innovation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","points","type-points","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/points"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/16\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/ckrieger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}