San Diego Metropolitan Area
Currently a Contract Specialist for the United States Navy.
I was an intern at Vom Fass Coronado, also known as The Coronado Tasting Room. When I started my internship, the owners had only been in the Coronado location for a couple of months. This location offered greater tourist access along with the ability to have a tasting room. They were experiencing the growing pains of expanding their business and managing a new location. In particular, they were struggling with maintaining inventory and projecting how much they would have to order. Additionally, the company offered gift sets with assorted products, making it difficult to separate the revenue from each individual input. I addressed these issues by creating extensive Excel-based models that tracked inventory and forecasted product shelf life for projecting long-term ordering. I also generated a model for product categorization with overlapping inputs to extrapolate revenue. These efforts gave the owners models that would collect data over time and organize it in a digestible way while providing the tools to project future orders. Furthermore, these models reformatted preexisting data to reveal useful trends that weren't observable beforehand. Additionally, I managed their e-commerce site and updated, improved, and organized the site layout. I learned the ins and outs of running a local business throughout my internship. I experienced the fast pace and rapidly developing environment of opening and running a business in a new location. In this environment, I used my problem-solving skills while applying my technical skills in data visualization, information and transformation.
As part of the activities staff at the San Diego KOA, my main role is to coordinate and set up activities for guest primarily children. The activities consist of arts and crafts, rock climbing, rocket launching, laser tag, trivia, tie dye, and more. Additionally, I also do checkins, pool monitoring/cleaning/checkin, bike rentals/repair, craft sales and physical labor tasks. I would interact with hundreds of guest daily.
Through the Science and Engineering Apprentice Program I got a full-time paid internship at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems and Command. My project was the Forward Deployed Energy and Communications Outpost (FDECO). The project aimed at created an underwater charging station where underwater ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) could both charge and upload/receive data. My task was to assist in setting up a web-based visual display for software management. Primarily I configured Docker Compose UI. I also assisted FDECO Lab Manger with systems administration and assurance efforts. This experience showed me what it is like being an employee for a federal contracting company. It introduced me to the work place of a bigger company and learn the norms of the work place. I also acquired technical skills like Python and Docker.
I was a full time intern at 9010 Brand. 9010 Brand was a small branding company that help create, launch, maintain, advertise, market, and manage other businesses. One of their major clients was Canelo Álvarez. While there my mentors taught me the ins and outs of their business and day to day operations. They had me learn about e-commerce, sit in in meetings, participate in product shoots, participate in deliveries, and more. While there I was tasked with managing clients social media, promoting and advertising a new product, generating a list of possible clients, created and edited company media, designed and created case studies for the company website and updated the company's e-commerce site. Throughout my time at 9010 my mentors really taught me a lot about the business world and especially the realm or marketing and client relationships.