Chung-Han Tu

Name: Chung Han Tu

This summer I will be working at the Union League of Philadelphia. I will be working at the IT department as an Project Management Associate.
My responsibilities include the following:
1. Creating documentation on our new projects which includes the scope of the project, the stakeholders, the responsibilities among…[Read more]

Since in the department, we use Remote access connection to manage some of our user requests. For instance, installing new software to our existing projects. I will have to get the IP address, user passwords, port number to connect to the user’s machine. At first, to finish a task cause a great discomfort since I need to acquire all of these…[Read more]

Based on my experience, although having a strong technical skills is important. However, there are some soft skills or career skills that will definitely help me in the long run.
First, the mentality you bring to the team and the company. By having a mentality that you wish the approaches/suggestions will help the users regarding resolving their…[Read more]

Time management is a great skills to have especially when you want to develop a career with time for the job and time for ourselves. By managing my schedule with a calendar is how I use my time wisely, especially during a full-time internship.
Moreover, by keeping a task lists per day to remind myself the necessary things, chores, and tasks need…[Read more]

In my opinion, there are a great deal of skills I learned at MIS that really help me during my internship.

Data analytics: Since one of my project is doing data analytics to find insight and pattern for the League. The data analytics class is a great course for developing myself with a data mindset and continue learn the SQL database skills.…[Read more]

My experience at Union League has been great. I got to understand the business process of hospitality management, and understand the operational concept of the organization. Throughout the entire internship experience the CTO managed to give me real projects to handle which makes me gain significant experience in project management. During this…[Read more]

The real experience and feeling when managing different projects. When i first taking project management courses, it lectures us how to effectively deal with obstacles in the project. At first i do not feel anything until i actually start managing projects during my internship. During the projects i encountered challenges because the software does…[Read more]

Based on the experience I had from the internship I realized how MIS is beneficial to the job on the following points:

Data analytics: Utilize Excel to find detailed information; moreover, by using the “data analysis”, “Pivot table” functions to complete data analysis.
Project Management: How I use the skills: See, Feel and Change to change…[Read more]

The best way to balance the working life and school works are time management. This semester i start using scheduled mapping as my primary tool for time management (AKA calendar). By planning everything ahead of time usually a month before the due date, and recorded the tasks to the calendar to keep track of the works needed to be done. At times…[Read more]

Working at Union League makes me realizes Communication skills and business skills are really important for the internship. Being a good communicator allows us to solve the problems more efficiently, articulate the idea in an approach that are relatable to the stakeholders. In other words, by having a great communicating skills we can streamline…[Read more]

At the internship, there’s certainly some acclimation. Especially the acronym each department use and the location of each department.
During the first week of my internship, i was struggling to make a conclusion on the assignment i was working on because i do not fully comprehend the codes each department is using for their convenient purposes.…[Read more]

Hello Everyone,
I worked at Union League as a Data Analyst/ Networking Intern for the IT department. Union League is a city club in Pennsylvania for privileged members in the United States. During the internship, I will be assigned to several projects with the IT department. My current project is working with different departments by analyzing…[Read more]