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In my opinion, the MIS program has done an amazing job preparing me for this internship.
I used most of what I have learned in MIS classes in this internship. I have been in two WordPress projects, which using the community site and taking MIS3501, 3502 definitely helped. 3506 gave me the understanding of business analysis, which is a critical skill for what I do, I haven’t taken MIS3535 but I wished I took it last semester because a lot of what I do now is project management. I can’t stress enough how helpful MIS2501 was because it helped me to understand the architecture component of every project I manage now, and the company is actually migrating its data centers to Azure this year – the very technology we learned in class!
In addition to skills learned in class, I have learned so much from life experience of professors who have been in the industry, like professor Doyle and professor Sclarow. Through their stories, I learned what to expect about IT professionals or senior management, workplace etiquette and politics,
The following courses and activities at Temple have really helped me in this internship:
– Excel: our business Excel course does a great job in giving us the methods for using Excel effectively and efficiently.
– Analytics competitions: these taught me to find data from government/industry sources quickly, and then use knowledge of data to clean, combine, and compare them in useful ways, My constant practice in creating charts and graphics also helped me produce a chart that actually helped my team decide on customer segments.
= MIS – Digital Studio: an ad agency deals heavily in client relationship, and the course taught me to see things from the perspectives of the client and its customers. Knowing how to scope a project and to develop personas are also useful for building the sales pitch.
– MIS – Data Science & Data Analytics: I applied my understanding of data to analyzing data sources (for research) and to evaluating digital and social ad campaigns. Knowing which customer data were necessary to run an idea allows me to look beyond the hype for the true innovation and value behind a new campaign.
– Marketing courses: the business fundamentals necessary for every task in the agency.
– The process: the whole process of learning, especially in MIS, requires constant self-education and practice. The habit I cultivated to get better at coding, business analysis, and analytics has helped me keep up with industry trends, new changes to ad platforms, and complex KPI measurements.
The MIS program and Fox School as a whole have helped me greatly so far in my internship.
MIS 3506 was super helpful because it helped me prepare to meet with clients and to formulate what kind of questions I need to be asking. Although I am in audit and not consulting, so I am not taking the same steps as the class project, scoping out projects helped me learn what it is in a project I should be looking for and how to document appropriately. MIS 2502 was also helpful because of our use with SQL, when auditing clients I have to make sure that the SQL scripts that they give to us as evidence provide enough information to properly determine if their processes are accurate. Business communications taught me how to be concise and proper when communicating with coworkers/clients. MIS 2501 helped me gain a understanding about how enterprise architectures work, allowing me to gain a better understanding of how all the systems and applications I audit come together.
– Excel course: Excel is the essential business software so the online Excel class helps me tremendously work with spreadsheets.
– MIS 3535 (Project Management course): This class is directly related to my project management internship. One of the main reasons that I got hired is knowing MS Project. Besides, I got to utilize my knowledge of project scheduling and KPI evaluation that I learned in MIS 3535.
– MIS 3502 (Second Coding course): I learn about Javascript and Google API from this class. As a result, I have come up with a solution combining these two technologies to help with data analysis. If I hadn’t taken this class, my project would have taken so much time and effort doing manual work such as googling distance for thousands of addresses!
– Business Communication course: This course taught me to write emails professionally.
– MIS 2501 (IT Architecture course): I use a MacBook so I can’t get access to MS Project. This class helps me set up a virtual machine with Window to install and use MS Project. Also, flash research papers train me to think about presenting the big picture in a concise and engaging way to my supervisors.
Some things that I have learned in the classroom that I have leveraged at my internship is basic knowledge of financial statements, such as what comprises them and the general rules. I have also had to leverage my knowledge of query statements in order to get the information needed to complete some of the tasks I have been handed. Something more general that I have leveraged is being able to sit down with a problem to attempt to figure it out myself before getting help from a supervisor. I picked this up while in the classroom since it’s not possible to get every question answered in a timely manner in the classroom. This applies to the workplace as well; if I always waited for answers to questions, I would not be able to complete my tasks efficiently. A final piece of knowledge that I have leveraged is professional business communication skills that I learned in Business Communication. I have been using the skills learned in the class to craft better emails and business requirements documentation.
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. Nowadays, the industry is filled with numbers and figure, thus, the class allow to give us the necessary tool (SQL Workbench, Excel, PowerPivot, graphs) to transform the data into information.
IT architecture: This course is great and necessary for MIS. Before I started my internship I have no knowledge how extensive cybersecurity and Windows Management are in the business world. Basically, these are the backbone that support the enterprise software, complicated networking, remote access to different computers, SONICWALL system and so on. These skills are necessary because it is a valuable knowledge to have for leveraging ourselves, since the pay rate for this knowledge is relatively higher
the courses MIS2502 (Data Analytics) and MKTG3508 (Digital Marketing) provided me many skills that has leveraged my internship. For the course MIS2502, I have learned how to analyze data and create reports. These skills help me a lot since I have to analyze large number of data during the internship. Besides, the course MKTG3508 gave me the knowledge about Digital Marketing and SEO which helps me alot to understand about Amazon campaign and ranking.
Overall, the MIS program and Fox foundation classes prepares me really well for my internship:
MIS 2501. Enterprise IT Architecture with Professor Doyle taught me the foundation of networking and different components of an IT system for big enterprise. I understand different layers of their IT architecture, from domain controller, web server, workstation, to applications. That helps a lot when I conduct risk assessments and internal control testing for my clients.
Excel is a great skill that I learned through MIS 0855. Data Science and MIS 2502. Data Analytics. Some of the most useful functions are CONCATENATE, VLOOKUP, and Pivot Tables.
Project management skill that I learned through doing the class projects for MIS 3506 and MIS 3502 are also very helpful. I learn to organize work items in an efficient manner. The MIS 3506 and MIS 3502 projects also trained me to talk to clients, put together questions, and interact with clients in a friendly and productive way.
The background from finance and accounting classes at Fox help me understand the overall processes of accounting applications that I have to perform testing with.
Learning swimlane diagrams from MIS 2101 and MIS 3506 helps a lot when we have to conduct walkthroughs and document IT processes of my clients.
Over the past few years, I have learned a lot from the different classes in Fox and the MIS program, and have been able to leverage so much of what I’ve learned in the classroom during my internship this summer. Two classes that I would say have been especially helpful were Business Communications and MIS 3506. I have applied lessons from BizComm when it comes to writing emails effectively and giving strong presentations. I have also been able to apply a lot of what I learned in MIS 3506 to my work on the summer intern project. Understanding how to put together a scope document and use cases, as well as knowing how to ask the right questions to the right stakeholders, has been extremely beneficial in guiding me as I put together my team’s project charter, plan out features/user stories, and reach out to the project sponsors with questions.
There are several things that I’ve learned in the classroom that helped me leverage my internship.
Excel was one of the main things that was important to gain knowledge of since pretty much every task that I do at work requires it. I was also happy to find that the ability to use shortcuts within the program allowed me to complete assignments faster and be able to finish more work efficiently.
MIS 3501 helped me understand how a website is constructed. Because of this I am able to communicate faster with the IT team and overall comprehend my job better.
Finally, Marketing 2101 gave me the general marketing knowledge that I needed to be able to participate in conversations in regards to the upcoming promotions or changes that are going to be done on the website.
Many of the things I have learned throughout my experience at Temple I have been able to leverage during my internship. For example, in the Data Analytics course (MIS 2502) we learned SQL which has helped me because here at UHS we use something called CCL (Cerner Command Language) which is exactly like SQL. I am constantly running queries and audits to gather data. In that same course we also learned how to extract data from large sets of data in excel using a number of different ways like VLOOKUP. I have used VLOOKUP a number of times and it is something that has been very useful. Another course that has proven to be very helpful is Business Communications (BA 2196). Every day I send emails and messages and I have to always make sure to maintain a professional tone. That course taught me the fundamentals of working in an office setting and the do’s and dont’s of being a working professional.
So Far I applied many of what I learned in the Excel course I took last year in my everyday job functions. Throughout most days I extract data from a database and then filter it out to use the only data I need. I often use pivot tables and color coding to help organize my excel spreadsheets and manipulate data. I also use what I learned in business communications as well, I try and keep my messages short and simple without too much fluff to bring my point across in a short professional email or skype message. I also applied what I learned from our CSPD class on how to act, dress and communicate around to office, I found what I learned at Fox really helpful in my career so far.
At SAP, I have significant data analysis and BI work. I have developed this skill from my data science and data analytics class. The excel formulas, tips and trips I learned in these classes has made my job easier. Lumira, a Business Intelligence program by SAP is very similar to Tableau which I learned in Data Science. The skills I learned in these classes helped with data related tasks. I am learning many project management skills in MIS 3535 that I have used while managing short projects at SAP.
I have also done a lot of work with gathering requirements and building a new internal and external site for Partners with agile approach. I learned this skill in MIS 3506 and MIS 3535.