Information Technology Student Organization
Point Park's student run IT Organization.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Week 10 Reflection: TFM Co-Op
10 weeks have already passed, and I feel like I just started yesterday! It has truly been a great experience working with the team here and learning valuable skills in web development. This past week mostly consisted of debugging and making sure my project fits the proper requirements. I was able to finish the functional
Week 7 Reflection Blog – Flores
Hello All, I have completed 7 weeks of my internship at MIGHTY and we are excited to announce that our app has been published in the IOS app store. Early last week, we found numerous bugs which held us back from allowing users to download and start using the app. As I have mentioned before,
Reflection Blog – Week 5
This week brings the conclusion of another engagement. We were focusing on Sarbanes-Oxley IT testing and compliance this week. I continued to generate templates that will be used to execute procedures and complete walkthroughs of client information systems. This will help us understand and improve clients’ efficiency, find gaps and also catch any errors when