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Fulfilling Internship

Major: Information Systems - Windows 10 migration Client Management Suite migration Level III support of Client technology Office365 support - Computer deployments for members - Computer cleaning - Configuration of warehouse default computers (i.e. logon logistics, specialized software installation, set-up at designated warehouse location, etc.) - Daily tasks of tickets

My Summer Internship at The Borgen Project

Major: Writing I wrote weekly articles that were due every week on Friday. Articles were to be proposed to our managers and had to be approved before we could begin to write them. There was also the option to use article ideas and titles that were already proposed and ready to be written about. Interns were to complete their weekly trackers that included activities like promoting The Borgen Project and calling/emailing congress to make a difference.

Living Like a Stanley Cup Champion

Major: Sport Management I filled internal/external ticket requests for events at the Enterprise Center. I assisted in ticket resolution issues during events at Enterprise Center/Stifel Theatre in the box office. I helped with archiving of paperwork/data from previous Blues. Finally, I assisted with the development of the 2019-2020 season and single game plan tickets. Helping to set price codes, event and ticket interfaces.

On-Campus Marketing Internship

Major: Advertising & Public Relations -Maintained social media image by creating a consistent brand voice -Supported administrative team to coordinate events -Brainstormed and researched campaign strategies and tactics -Tabled at events to increase program awareness -Documented events through pictures and film for social media

Campus Recreation

Major: Advertising & Public Relations I created content for the social media content calendar for Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. I also put together an Intramural Sports video about "GV Games," and I worked tabling events and Rec N' Roll (golf cart trivia).

GVSU Club Sports

Major: Sport Management Weekly tasks consisted of email correspondence with clubs, meetings & professional development, article writing, and website management. Some of the larger projects completed throughout the internship were hosting the NIRSA Regional Soccer Tournament, NCDA Dodgeball Nationals, and Club Sports Olympics.

Elections Intern

Major: Political Science I helped prepare for and run elections happening within Ottawa County. This included sending local clerks supplies, registering voters, creating plans and FAQs for the upcoming elections, and helping my boss, the Elections Coordinator manage election days.

U.S. Figure Skating Internship

Major: Sport Management My responsibilities included everything from hosting VIP and memorial fund events at the 2019 US Figure Skating Championships, to working in the Figure Skating Museum archives. I was even tasked with transporting and getting repair quotes for an Olympic gold medal!

Gazelle Sports Young Athletes Intern

Major: Sport Management I was the Gazelle Sports Young Athlete Intern. I did a lot in this role. I was in contact with a great deal of high school coaches in west Michigan. I setting team nights with these coaches. During the team nights, when all the athletes are at gazelle, fit the athletes for shoes, spikes, and other running essentials. I had a chance to get some real hands on time with these athletes and hope to ignite a fire for the sport of track and field for so many young athletes. I also represented Gazelle Sports at many track meets where I tried to ignite the fire for young athletes and hopefully have a chance to motivate the kids. I also did all I could to make our young athlete program better.

Legal Assistance Center Volunteer

Major: Political Science At the LAC, I was tasked with guiding people through legal processes by providing the proper paperwork needed for their case, explaining what was being asked of them on the paperwork, and describing how the court process works.

2nd Co-op rotation

Major: Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering I was asked to help design and build automation cells that assisted with the e-coating of the parts. This involved designing end of arm tooling for robots, building lighting cells to help illuminate the parts, and even coding the cell to help ensure the most efficient run times. I was also asked to design and build an inspection cell that vision inspected the packing of finished parts. This was done to ensure proper packaging. With this cell I was granted full design freedom and was allowed to code, build and design it how I envisioned best fit for the project.

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Major: Mechanical Engineering Day to day activities includes quoting, part setup, tooling design, material deficiency report review and change order processing. On top of that, I also managed and co-designed three projects. The projects included a lathe, a automatic stripper and a sleeve machine.

CO-OP with Dominion Systems

Major: Computer Engineering Projects I worked on range from bug fixes, quality of life improvements, new features, and converting legacy code to our new architecture. My main project was to complete a dashboard summarizing data that is created when a payroll is accepted.

Controls Engineering Co-op - 2nd Rotation

Major: Electrical Engineering This semester I spent some time doing electrical design and programming on machines, as well as some wiring and machine commissioning. I also accompanied our engineers and builders to a customer site in town on one occasion.

Engineering Co-op

Major: Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering I spent the majority of the semester working on a new SATCOM antenna that we are trying to get contracted for. My responsibilities consisted of designing and modifying various components, coordinating with mold houses to have parts injection molded, designing and constructing interim fixtures to build samples of the antenna, physically building the antenna, and creating a drawing package for the antenna. I also completed similar smaller projects throughout the co-op semester.

M.E. Co-Op Experience with Team HS Die and Engineering Inc.

Major: Mechanical Engineering During this second Co-Op rotation, similar to previous rotations, I spent the majority of my time working as a mechanical engineering designer. I was responsible for designing automated machines and their respective components. The first half of the rotation I spent most of my hours designing components to solve the current problems we were experiencing while designing, building, and/or testing our automated machines. A problem would arise during the machine's designing, building, and/or testing phases so I would be assigned to fix the problem. While performing these tasks I was able to gain trust and responsibility from my supervisor and co-workers. Later in the semester, I was given my very own machine to design. I was able to go through the whole machine design process. I collaborated directly with the customer while designing the machine. I also continued to perform problem solving side projects while designing my own machine. In summary, I performed and learned a lot within the mechanical engineering design field. I spent 500+ hours using SolidWorks 2018 as well as 20+ hours of hands on building.

EMC CO-OP 2

Major: Electrical Engineering As a co-op student I was tasked with completing several tests for clients, analyzing and simulating signal integrity projects, and assisting in the development of the company website.

West Michigan Sports Commission Internship

Major: Sport Management I continually worked with vendors to organize services like catering, tents, welcome information, and more for upcoming events. I was able to create marketing materials to promote our events. When event days came, I was on-site to assist with setting up, guiding volunteers, and answering questions to visitors.

Engineering Co-op

Major: Interdisciplinary Engineering At Twisthink, I worked in the AI and Computer Vision team. This team is responsible for creating systems that map perceived environmental conditions to suggestions, answers, decisions, and autonomous actions. The projects I worked on were in the early research and development phases. Our goal was to identify the most effective detection system within given constraints. To do this, we took an iterative approach, evaluating the effectiveness of several sensors and their associated detection algorithms. One project included the development of a sensor and algorithm to detect the strokes of a deep well hand pump utilized in third world villages. The purpose for this was to track the health of the pump over time. Currently, if a pump breaks, it takes time to mobilize the resources to fix it, leaving locals without water. The device I worked on will use signal processing and machine learning to process signals from special sensors. The processed signals will be sent to the cloud allowing the health of pumps to be monitored and resources allocated prior to their failure.

The Grandest Time

Major: Sport Management I completed anything from daily credit card reports to putting on our annual spring sale at the end of the year. I handled the money before and after every event for both Louie's Locker Room and Tickets. I stayed on top of online orders and inventory for our merchandise. I created the events within our ticketing system for the upcoming seasons. I supervised and managed ticket and merchandise sales interns at all home events.

Koops Mechanical Engineering Co-op

Major: Mechanical Engineering During my co-op rotation as a member of the Koops mechanical engineering team my primary responsibility was to work on the mechanical design of custom automation equipment. The main tasks associated with this were the creation of accurate and detailed CAD models, part drawings, and bills of materials (BOMs). During the winter semester I had the opportunity to work on numerous projects in both assisting and primary designer roles.

Co-op Rotation 2

Major: Mechanical Engineering One of the main tasks I completed during this co-op rotation was creating and managing graphics for completed projects. Graphics include floor plans, water systems, and air handlers. It was my job to ensure graphics were ready for technicians when it was time for them to program the graphic and get it ready for the customer to use. Another task I performed was creating record drawings. This entailed going into the drawings created by one of the project engineers and making changes. The changes made were a result of a technician realizing that something isn't portrayed accurately in the drawings while in the field. They would then mark up the drawings and give them to me to update.

EMC Co-op

Major: Electrical Engineering Over the semester I worked on products for several companies from various industries testing and debugging their products. I also worked on internal lab infrastructure projects to make testing more efficient and accurate.

Production Support Engineer

Major: Mechanical Engineering This rotation focused on manufacturing and was more closely tied to production. A lot of time was spent on the floor, building confidence in working with the team, scrapping out bad parts, and responding to alarms. After that knowledge base was built, Some Continuous Improvement projects began, such as dashboard setup, and line rework/modifications.

A Winter at Phase 1

Major: Electrical Engineering Tractor Downforce- Updated a pre existing system that controls the depth of planting wheels. Pizza Chiller- Updated a system that dispenses water at the correct temperature for making pizzas IOT Outlet - Measured the RF characteristics of printed antennas and changed part to balance them BLE beacon- Prototyped a Bluetooth beacon that will be used to track portable road segments BLE pressure sensor- Measured the connection quality of different BLE sensors.