Vend Lease Company Inc. – Junior IT Associate/Specialist
Description of the company: Vend Lease (vendlease.net) is a premier financial services company, providing equipment financing for small and medium sized businesses in 50 states. Industries served include Food, Hospitality, Automotive, Point of Sales, and Vending. The company provides financing to provide businesses with equipment through major providers like NCR, Aloha, Radiant, and MICROS. Daily operations include assessing new equipment providers and assessing online applications from potential lessees, as well as using data collection to predict the potential for collection of outstanding dues. Though most of these processes
Description of internship:
- (May & June): Pulled mySQL data of incoming potential lessees into Excel to join with additional information like credit reports and past judgements deliverable to credit analysts (using pivot tables to sort). The sum of this information on each client allowed us to predict the likelihood of collecting outstanding balances, resulting in higher collection rates.
- (July & September): Led the planning, design, and eventual development of Vend Lease’s new site. It was initially prototyped in WordPress before we concluded to build the site from scratch. After the internship, my relationship continued.
Official Title: Junior IT associate
Contact: dsigai@vendlease.net (410-933-8100 x 131)
Start/End Date: May 2015 – September 2015