Walmart Internship
Walmart is a massive retail chain based in Bentonville Arkansas. They have been in the Fortune Five for over twenty years and are the largest private employer in the United States with 1.5 million employees. They have business operations in 28 countries that serve nearly 260 million customers a week that returned nearly $500 billion in revenue in 2015.
I spent 4 weeks in the Human Resource Optimization team in Global Back Office Solutions fact finding and aiding in the development of a leadership dashboard that shows critical metrics on in house and outsourced software and hardware metrics. My remaining time was spent assisting the Insight and Analytics team in the Corporate Affairs division with the analyzation of social media metrics as well as developing dashboards that projected social media and sentiment analytics for Directors, Vice Presidents, and the CEO. In my 10 weeks I utilized Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Paint, Vizio and PowerPoint as well as Google Trends, Troux, Axure Pro, BrandWatch, and Crimson Hexagon.
Projects:
-Pinpointed missing and critical data needed for a software leadership dashboard
-Developed a software and hardware metric proof of concept for use by leadership
-Created dashboards in BrandWatch that visualized social media movement on major Walmart stories as well as political conventions
-Aided in developing a bi-weekly dashboard of social media metrics for CEO Doug McMillon
–Wrote queries and trained opinion monitors on Walmart core narratives in Crimson Hexagon