Taylor Scott Williams

My time at Subaru has been great not only for how much I learned in my time here but also for the number of personal and professional connections I have made. Although I’m still a little nervous about entering the workforce full-time, Subaru has dulled the edge of that anxiety a great deal. I applied to one position at the end of January which I…[Read more]

One thing I found interesting about my workplace is how different groups and teams interact. Behavior within the DBA team is very different from that of the desktop or infrastructure team, and I was surprised that company culture is not a blanket sentiment. Instead, it seems to dictate how different groups interact rather than how individuals act…[Read more]

The most obviously transferred skills from school to workplace were from MIS3501 because a significant portion of my time at my internship required knowledge of HTML and PHP (in addition to one or two other languages). Additionally, Data Analytics provided me baseline SQL knowledge and the analytic skills for dissecting data and garnering useful…[Read more]

I have always been something of a procrastinator, so since starting my internship I have really had to reassess how I get work done and manage my time. This semester I am taking 19 credits on top of working three days out of the week, so the problem further exacerbated in January. I have had to rely on the weekends to get a lot of school work…[Read more]

I was surprised by the level of camaraderie among among employees and their bosses. Although I didn’t expect attitudes to be standoffish, I thought that the hierarchy of roles within the department would matter more in personal relationships. At first, I was very guarded with my supervisors because that’s what I assumed the relationship to be, but…[Read more]

I began my internship this past summer before the Fall ’15 semester. Over that time, my supervisor assigned me a project where I would build a web page from scratch using HTML, CSS, jQuery, and PHP with the understanding that I had no coding experience. By the end of the summer I had a firm foundation in each, which not only prepared me for the…[Read more]

My initial reaction to Cirque’s extensive use of IT in their touring show life cycle was similar; I had never considered all the processes that go into running a globally renowned tour. Of course, such a large scale production demands the ability to easily collaborate and access to an enormous amount of information at a moment’s notice. However,…[Read more]