During my first shadow hour of the week, Parth subbed out and I ended up shadowing CK. I came across a printer that said “main server failure”. It did not work and I was going to footprint it, but CK told me to always restart the computer first to see if it would solve the…Continue Reading Shadowing Week 7 (3/31-4/4)
When I shadowed Parth, he told me to make sure I know what is going on. When coming into my shift, I should aways ask the consultant I’m relieving if there were any problems or anything I should know. Then, I learned about Lotus notes and the importance of it for Site Managers. I learned…Continue Reading Shadowing week 6 (3/24-3/28)
For class today, we had a walking toward of the ECC building which is the main building for the DoIT department. There is a SINC site there, but there’s so much more. Our tour guide was Behzad, one of the lead network administrators for the university. He showed our the server rooms, the telephone wire…Continue Reading Interning Class Day 8 (3/28/14)
Parth brought me on a walking tour to meet Tara, Chuck and the Faculty center. Tara was amazing; she was very nice and we had a pretty good conversation about the qualitative documentation she assigned for homework. I am still very interested in the feedback she gives. Then I met Chuck for a bit and…Continue Reading Shadowing Week 5 (3/10-3/14)
Today for class we had two senior consultant come in (Celia and Danny Chin) and speak to us about scheduling. Apparently scheduling is a lot harder than it seems because all the site managers fight for consultants to work at their site but there cannot be any overlaps. There was an exercise that Danny and…Continue Reading Interning Class Day 7 (3/14/14)
Today we met a Fine Arts Hybrid Lab. I really like the fact that we go to different SINC sites for class because I learn a lot about other SINC sites and I am able to experience going to these SINC site. Since I usually only work at SBS and the library, I never really…Continue Reading Interning Class Day 6 (3/7/14)
Parth subbed out this week due to exams so CK was my mentor for my first site manager shadow hour for this week. He taught me about the Consultant O drive. I never knew there were so many useful information on the consultant O drive. There were printer statuses for each site just incase site…Continue Reading Shadowing Week 4: (3/3-3/7)
When I shadowed Parth today, I had a walking tour of the Teaching Learning Facility. I really enjoy these walking tours to places I have never been too; its a great experience. I met Paul, who is in charge of special projects and the Multimedia things. He has people creating java programs and other people…Continue Reading Shadowing Week 3: (2/24-2/28)
Today interns were suppose to meet at computer science SINC site. This is another great experience because I’ve never been to computer science sinc site. It was pretty interesting getting there and I realized that many consultants have not been at this SINC site so its a first for many interns. We wait at the…Continue Reading Interning Class Day 5: (2/28/14)
For class today, we went to Math SINC site. It was quite a journey looking for this SINC site since I have never been here. It was in the basement and when I found the SINC site, I was surprise it was so big. There was a CoLa portion and a classroom at the Math…Continue Reading Interning Class: Day 4 (2/21/14)