Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
I am currently a sophomore in the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst, majoring operation and information management with concentration of information system and intend to minor in information technology. My academic goal is to have analytical skill of information system management and prepare for a further in deep study in business analytics field, especially data analytics which is an emerging and immensely powerful resource for businesses. This summer I intend to participate an Isenberg school of management study abroad program to London, Paris and Verona, which has aims of cultural tourism and operation study. Also with interested in humanities, foreign languages and cultures, I take special interests in the operation of transnational corporations. Also, businesses and some nonprofit organizations of arts side such as museums and theaters are facing the transitions from the traditional operation to a modern way under rapid development of information technologies and globalization. Therefore, my ambition is to have more opportunities of studying and experiencing in information management industry as well as arts and culture field. I will back to my hometown Shanghai, China, and pursue an intern there which applies my study in operation and information management in Isenberg school of management.
The experience of working at treasury and cash department gave me a lot of general knowledges of financial accounting and budgeting before taking professional business courses. At work, I managed and prepared disbursement sheets weekly by using Excel. I also learned how to monitor the Value Pay system and check the variance between value pay outstanding master payment detail report and outstanding list from the Citizens GPS report. Since I am interested in information system, my curiosity let me to get some hand-on practice of some company information management systems. For instance, ClearCycle is one of the system Blue Cross use to operation and process health insurance claim, pharmacy and vendor payments. This internship experience inspired me to have further education in operation and information management in college.
As my first intern job, I've learned a lot from this unique experience, located in Yu Garden, a busy tourist attraction in Shanghai, China. I worked as an intern for a currency exchange window. My responsibilities included handling exchanges as much as 3000 dollars daily, recording the invoice for each entry and submitting the process to the national currency circulation. Every day, I met tourists from many different countries and I had to distinguish currencies such as Australian dollar, British pound, Euro, Japanese Yen, Thai Baht, etc. My internship gave me an idea of the fast pace of the economy in an international metropolis.