Intern At The Duquesne Light Company - 1680 Words

During the spring semester of 2016, I was fortunate enough have the opportunity to intern at the Duquesne Light Company in downtown Pittsburgh. During the course of my internship, I had the title of IT intern while working in the IT Department, specifically IT Planning Control. In IT Planning Control, we are responsible in a more managerial capacity. My supervisors oversee the business side of the IT, budgets, billing tools, and general business oversight. During my time there, I worked on a day to day basis with Patti Weiss, my other main supervisor was David Wolfe, who is part of the IT Leadership Team. During my internship, I was given multiple opportunities that allowed for me to both work in teams and independently, giving me a†¦show more content†¦It was definitely one of the more rewarding experiences to see my work go to use. It was also a huge help with my own personal understanding of database modeling and database structures. I feel that through this knowledge, I could definitely have a higher comfort level in a role that relied on a good amount of database knowledge. Another one of the tasks that I got to take on had to deal with our lease agreements. At Duquesne Light, we use various cell tower sites to attach our own equipment that picks up readings from meters, and then bounces those readings back to a data center. In order to attach our equipment, we pay leases to various companies that own the spaces that we use. The majority of our leases are paid on a yearly basis, but some of them are paid on a monthly basis. Up until now, we had only had our files semi-decently organized files put away into the filing cabinets and scattered throughout a network drive with very little organization. Because of this lack of organization, we were paying many of our lease agreements past their due dates and forcing us to incur late fees on top of our payments. I took on the task of organizing these files and setting up a payment schedule inside of our company SharePoint, which was being far underused. I had to go through and check the payment dates and find out when they were supposed to be paid, organize them in an offline backup, and take them online to SharePoint. By doing this, we have been able to avoid paying