Monthly Archives: July 2017

TFM: CO-OP: WEEK 11 REFLECTION

I am wrapping up my 11th week of my Co-op with Target Freight, and I almost ready to have my project finished and pushed into production.  My last step is to have all of our carriers on boarded sending us correctly formatted EDI files providing information for all of our Clients. This final step I

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ACDHS Co-Op Week 3

This week I was able to successfully upload learning content to the Learning Management System. Because the system constraints only allow video uploads of up to 50MB, I had to use another method of getting the video on the system. I saved the video file to my OneDrive and used the “copy link” function to

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Reflection Blog 3 – Matt Alexander

3 – 7 July is a short week because ReedSmith observes the 4th of July holiday. The NOC does continue to work though because they monitor all 28 office locations worldwide for 24/7 operations. I only participated though from 5-7 July though I did make up 20 hours’ worth of work.  I did learn a

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Reflection Blog 2 – Matt Alexander

For the week of 26 – 30 June, I began learning each of the systems in depth that monitors the different networks, sensors and outside systems that ReedSmith deals with. First, I found out that they use a company called Lexis Nexis (LN) to deal with their information traffic needs. LN has a facility in

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Reflection Blog 1 – Matt Alexander

Starting work at ReedSmith on 19 June 2017, I was first integrated into the company by filling out the necessary employee paperwork and then went through a grueling 4 hour training period of watching different videos. Over 46 videos were made to show employees everything from using the products that ReedSmith uses on a regular

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Reflection blog – Week 6

This week I attended my first ITGC walkthrough. During a walkthrough our goal is to understand the company’s processes so that we can later advise on risk. We can take samples and use them as evidence or we can note that we watched a process. We want to walk away understanding the applications that have

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WEEK 10, INTERNSHIP: CDC

This week was spent troubleshooting focusing mainly on repairing unhealthy SCCM clients and updating security patches. I’ve delved deeper into learning the command line structure and navigating an OS using those commands. One occurance was utilizing the Diskpart program to manage areas on the hard drive and how we use this to troubleshoot various problems

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ACDHS Co-Op Week 2

This week, I have started getting to know the agency’s Learning Management System (LMS). I am tasked with identifying any system requirements necessary to upload videos and other educational content to the LMS. I have been utilizing the system by creating “events” and “sessions” which are Instructor Led Training (ILT) courses for employees within the

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Week 8 Reflection Journal – Flores

Hey Everyone! Week 8 is in the books and a lot of progress has been made in the development of version 1.2 of our application. We released the application and have gathered some analytics and data from a small group of beta users. I have monitored our users through iTunes connect app analytics and google

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TFM: CO-OP: WEEK TEN REFLECTION

I just completed my tenth week at my co-op with target freight.  This week I managed to get a lot accomplished towards getting my project into production use. At the beginning of the week, I completed the functional acknowledgment to send back to carriers. After that step was done with I had a fully working

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