Yesterday was a sad day at the office, as it was my last day as an intern at Verizon Wireless Headquarters. First to recap everything it has been a great summer and a great experience for myself. Being an IT person, it was amazing to experience the other side of things as the customer working in HR. This also opened my views up to entire new areas that I would have never seen before. So I really enjoyed that aspect of this entire summer opportunity.
On Wednesday Melissa and I presented our experiences in "Town Hall" in the Verizon Center. The Powerpoint presentation consisted of an overview of everything we did over the summer and was about an hour in length. Everyone seemed to really enjoy our presentations we were even told it was one of the best presentations seen in the intern programs.
I discussed basically how I got here with a little background story about myself. Then I talked about my main project I worked on being the Issues Tracking System. Next I discussed the Error Reports that I helped work on and bring back up to date. Finally I ended my section with a brief explanation of PGP and how we would implement a secure email protocol for our communications with Metlife. I then passed the presentation on to Melissa and she talked about her experiences.
After she concluded her section I came back up and we explained some of the Intern Events we went to and how they impacted us. It was really great to talk about those because not that many people knew about all the things we did throughout the summer. It was real fun just to tell everyone how we contributed to Verizon Wireless and how great of an experience it was for us. We concluded by just thanking everyone that came that day because it really did mean a lot. Throughout the summer everyone helped out by answering questions and just having someone to talk to.
I did very well on my exit interview and got a chance to go around an say goodbye to everyone and thank everyone again for the summer. I really feel that I learned a lot more about the business world in general by this experience. I improved on my writing skills and just picked up on new areas and techniques on presenting information to people. Unfortunately the majority of my work is confidential and Verizon Wireless property under the NDA forms I signed. But, I have the knowledge learned working with Peoplesoft, project management software, and presentation skills that will never leave me.
Once again I would like to thank everyone over at Verizon Wireless for a great summer and making some great friends with my fellow interns. I would also like to thank the recruiters for getting me in the door, Rider University Career Services for helping me out with the connection, and my adviser for this internship back at Rider for reading this blog and keeping up to date. Thanks again I can't wait to get back to school in 2 weeks and tell everyone about my experience.
