Experience
IT Associate
In the Summer of 2019 I interned with TJX, a Fortune 100 company. I worked in the Marshalls Distribution Center in Philadelphia. I worked very closely with managers, supervisors, and the Network team in Philadelphia as well as Home Office (Corporate Headquarters) which is located outside of Boston. I had the privilege of personally meeting many high ranking professionals in their organization including Tim Miner (President of MarMaxx) and Jeff Bruell (President of Distribution). I was also provided the opportunity to have a Video Call with Ernie Herman (CEO of TJX) and Deborah Felix (Senior Vice President of Human Resources). My major project was to optimize their network file share by meeting with various departments in the building to design a layout that will eliminate old information. The overarching goal of this project was to prepare for a Sharepoint Integration. I inherited other Troubleshooting roles and projects to support the network.
Some projects that I worked on included the aforementioned File Share Optimization, SSID rotation (network wide project entailing the enhancement of security on all wireless devices that are peripherals to their Warehouse Management System which includes printers, handheld scanners, label printers, terminals, and wireless phones), and AIL Rollout (a project across the Distribution Center launched this Summer to assist in the tracking of warehouse employee’s indirect time buy providing supervisors with a platform to approve/reject requests for indirect time. To assist in this rollout I completed database work to provide security levels to employees to allow them multiple sessions to the WMS and the reconfiguration of Intermec CV-30s which are small wireless terminals). I successfully increased their File Share capacity by 49% and organized it into a much more efficient layout for Sharepoint Integration. I also discovered that personal drives belonging to terminated employees were not being deleted and occupy a large portion of the capacity of the network file share. It appears that the process of not deleting personal drives is something that occurs company wide including in other Distribution Centers and Corporate offices. The SSID rotation was completed successfully. AIL was launched successfully as well.
Manufacturing Operations Intern
In the Summer of 2018, I interned with Brighsmith Coaters, a Manufacturing company which specializes in the coating of metal coils. They were preparing for an audit of all of their business processes in order to comply with ISO 9001 standards. ISO certification is extremely necessary for the operation of their business because many clients will only form a relationship with ISO certified companies. This was my first job after my high school job so here I learned how to work in a professional setting. To achieve my goal, I needed to meet with leaders and employees in various departments of the company including Accounting, Operations, Purchasing, Shipping, Quality Control and Customer Service. This internship culminated in an audit by a certified auditor to ensure that the ISO procedures I had developed were in compliance with the standard and were being practiced.