Shenika Balfour

What is Book Broker?
College students do not have a centralized system of exchanging and selling book products. Students often look to post books on websites like eBay, Facebook, Amazon, OfferUp to sell/buy […]

The project in MIS 4596 takes the skills we have learned from all of our previous courses and makes us use those skills to complete our project.  I have learned how to work with a team to achieve our common goal […]

Welcome to the Team Mercedes MIS 4596 Project Site.

Our team: Tony Wu, Emily Schucker, Vince Furlong, and Jonathan Kerr.

What I like about WordPress
Ease of use, quick development, built in SEO, and plugin availability are just several reasons to like WordPress. For a development project, I designed a website called Story64. It’s a […]

Datacenter Build with Virtual Machines

Our company can save $9,200,000 over three years by incorporating server virtualization into our new datacenter build. We can reduce the purchase of 1,000 servers to just […]

Think Business Interruption, Not Network Downtime

At losses incurred at $14,800 per minute, our Tier I Datacenter lost our organization $25.6 million this past year simply due to outages. I propose a one year […]

As part of an exclusive class project, I designed Surf Cafe, using Microsoft Access, to provide professors with a working database for class demonstration. It illustrates how primary keys are used as […]

Kaggle is a crowdsourcing community and a predictive-modelling platform. It’s also a data dump and job board. Together, it’s ground zero for some of the biggest analytics competitions in the world.

When a com […]

I had the fortunate opportunity to sit down and have lunch with NBC Universal’s EVP & CIO Michael Bradshaw and his team. What enthusiasm! They were all passionate about what they do. They gave us an inside look to […]

I interviewed for a consulting position that resulted in an invitation to an event being held at Ernst & Young, April 20th. I attended the event and found it heavily focused on Cyber-Security and the risks […]

I accepted an internship with Salesforce.com and it has been very fulfilling. The managing representative offered me the position of Project Leader which included handpicking other interns to be part of the team. […]

For the past 12 years, I have been working as a Project Manager for a mid-sized non-profit. I enrolled in the MIS Major to get exposed to a wide variety of technologies while working towards a Bachelor’s Degree. […]