Global Partnerships Internship
- Job function (e.g., overall role, assigned tasks)
- My overall role was a \”Global Partnerships Internship\”. I worked with the Head of Strategic Alliances (HSA) within CI&T\’s North American Group. I assisted the HSA with a project regarding Global Partnerships. Our goal was to create a working online dashboard that would show how CI&T\’s partners provide value to the firm and how CI&T could use those partnerships to better service their customers.
- Examples of projects (e.g., list the projects you worked on and what you accomplished)
- My supervisor (HSA) is a former Scrum Master and Project Manager. CI&T itself is a digital transformation company, based heavily on Agile Work Methodology. Overall, my supervisor would employ those tactics by giving me small projects that could be achieved within a few days, and then I would present and we would go over feedback, then reiterate on my work. The main project that we undertook was to create our own version of a \”Gartner Magic Quadrant\” where we ranked (statistically) Partners of the firm based off of specific criteria and then displayed those in an interactive dashboard.
- Here are the main steps that we took to achieve this:
- Discuss what platform to build the dashboard (Google Sites was chosen to showcase how a complete overall site would look)
- Gather requirements, such as what criteria specifically to rank our Partners (We also sent out a feedback form to multiple executives across the world for their input)
- Assign overall points and weights to each criteria that was selected
- Provide values for each of the partners and put them in an (x,y) format.
- Take each of the (x,y) coordinates for each of the partners and put them into Google Data Studios to show them across a scatterplot.
- What you learned and how it relates to your major (e.g., describe what you learned from this experience in the context of specific courses)
- I\’m a double major, International Business and MIS, and getting to work for CI&T, which is an excellent blend of an international business, based in Brazil, and MIS, being a digital transformation company, heavily reliant on technology and Agile Methodologies, was an amazing experience. Coming in as an MIS student, I wanted to apply a technological approach to anything that I did, and getting to work with statistics, Google Data Studios, and some small programming details in Google Sheets was really informative for me.
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