Yearly Archives: 2017

CDC Internship Week 4

This week the troubleshooting tickets continue. The highlight was that I met with one of our Global Information Security Officers. He was a wealth of information and provided me with some guidance on career and furthering my education. The meeting reaffirmed that a post-graduate degree is something that I should strongly consider in order to

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CDC Internship Week 3

This week was spent having to find new ways to back up devices with larger drives before we imaged the computer with our new OS. I was assigned several lab devices with large storage capacities. The biggest issue is the client that owned the computers have been storing all of their research over a significant

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CDC Internship Week 2

I have met with my supervisor and we’ve set my new goals for the semester. She is aware that my main interests after I graduate is some form of leadership in the Information Technology field, Information Security, and teaching IT. The big project we have is the continued update of all our computers on campus

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CDC Internship Week 1

The first week back and it is as if I haven’t left. The team has welcomed me back and I have picked up where I left off. My supervisor Sheila was not in during the week but had left a series of tickets for me to work on. The assignments were mainly basic troubleshooting to

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ACDHS Week 12

This week, I was tasked with writing reports on two documents that I had to read and analyze and present the database I made to an administrative employee to get the approval process moving forward. The first document I had to generate a report on dealt with virtual employees and how to best incorporate methods of inclusion.

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ACDHS Co-Op Week 11

During this week, I had to create a slideshow that will be shown at the annual conference in November. The slideshow contained nearly 100 images that included photos from previous years conferences. I made the slideshow interesting and fresh so that those who watch i twill be interested in it and not bored while watching

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ACDHS Co-Op Week 10

This week I spent more time on The Learning Management System; adding webinars and tests/quizzes again that will be used by employees of the Agency. I also attended a conference meeting regarding the Agency’s annual conference where we went over job assignments and who will be doing what during the conference on November 2nd. I

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Reflection Blog 11 – Matt Alexander

28 August – 1 September. This week was a short week. Working in a normal manner of monitoring the servers and networks, I helped keep the IT department stay updated on current information. This included updating a schedule that is made to ensure that redundancy happens across all platforms. Improvements and updates happen consistently across

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ACDHS Co-Op Week 9

This week, I spent a lot of time on the Learning Management System again. I had to edit some of the webinars that were uploaded and make them more easily accessible to other employees. Instead of having them stored in a couple different locations, I put them all in one place so they would be

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