Tapping the Hidden Passion
Chit Zin
Experience Information
Employer: MiHIN
Job Title: Network Administrator
Major: Information Systems
Received Credit: Yes
Paid: Yes
Abroad: No
Description of the Organization
MiHIN is a health information network, operates the information interchange between health information exchanges in Michigan. Began with the idea to enhance accessibility of medical record for patients and doctors, MiHIN developed interoperability solution across hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies and government. MiHIN was built on private-public model which includes stakeholders from government and private sectors. The organization size is fairly small with approximately 200 members.
Description of the Tasks/Projects Completed
Tasks I have involved: " Activate Directory configuration for policy " Test Access control profile of Palo Alto firewall " User Access deployment " Writing script " Observe testing of Wildfire feature to forward suspicious file in traffic to Palo Alto lab " Testing Workspace as cloud based client " Learn how to troubleshoot PostgreSQL server and grant user limited access to specific tables " Check the URL filtering policy applied to Amazon workspaces instances " Certificate management of Windows system on Amazon workspaces server " Configure Amazon IAM " Configure the Amazon API Gateway I mainly involved in infrastructure development projects. My first project with cloud systems engineers, on standardizing user access control by using Active Directory configuration. This allowed me to observe the active directory on Amazon web service has the equal abilities to the locally hosted server. Beside it needs some caveats in configuration, it has major advantages in eliminating overhead without forgoing redundancy and performance. This assured me that the cloud-based infrastructure was fully dependable and increasingly become the option for new days' business with dynamic environment. Another project I worked on was creating parallel patching script for open sources. I used python and bash shell for this project. This project helped me reinvigorated my knowledge on scripting and horned my skill in debugging. The last project that I involved was developing Amazon lambda function to run and stop the EC2 instances.
Skills/Knowledge Gained Through The Experience
Skill I gained throughout the period: " Active Directory Management " Interpreting the access control profile on Palo Alto firewall " Scripting in Python and Bash shell " Troubleshooting Windows systems " Debugging the python and shell code " AWS console " Skill to work with Amazon cloud environment " Communication over VoIP
Favorite Part of the Experience
-Learning new thing every days -Adapting to cooperate culture -Gaining the confidence through application of the knowledge -The chance to experience the pure cloud-based infrastructure
How the Experience Influenced Future Career Goals
Prior to this internship, I had a narrow vision in approach to possible career paths that would match my interest. After witnessing the full-scale virtualization of network equipment into cloud services, I realized a strong background knowledge in networking alone will not be sufficient to achieve the sustainable career path. With the experience from this internship, I found my passion beyond the networking and willing to expand my learning in developing information system on cloud infrastructure.