AOIThalliet2017

Dates:  7/14/17 - 7/18/17 Activities: Intern collab event, worked onwebpages, product tour Technical Information:  OpenText TeamSite Reflection:  From 10:30-11:30 there was a ThinkPlace Product Showcase Tour, which basically was a walkthrough of Lenovo's top products. I know it's all a marketing ploy, but wow, Lenovo has some really incredible products. Not to advertise, but Yoga is super incredible and the technology for the newest X1 Yoga, how the keyboard flattens for ease of access when using tablet mode, really incredible. And the other laptops where you can handwrite in a notebook and have it copied down on onenote or whatever program. And the Moto is really cool too, all the mods(?) that you can add to your Moto like a battery mod, the extremely professional camera mod, the speaker mod, and the projector mod. Really innovative and honestly, who doesn't love customizable products. Even if the interface for a Moto is different than my Iphone, I think I could ge...

Dates:  7/11/17 - 7/13/17 Activities: CTG / NAF intern event Technical Information: none Reflection: The days pass slower than before, what with the only project left being the main project of updating the Intranet pages and having no content to upload. The intern event was Tuesday. It started in the Hero Room behind the cafeteria at about 9:30. I arrived at around that time (possibly later) and because it was in building 8 whereas I work at building 1, I had no idea where I was going. I waited for my fellow intern and fellow AOIT classmate, Scott, and another intern, Dymir, before heading in. The Hero Room was already packed with interns, students and adults alike, and the event started by taking NAF interns to tour a lab. We walked to building 7 and went to the Work Station & Performance Lab which showcased cool tech including VR and hardware for stations etc. Then we returned to building 8 for another tour in Green Solutions Center, which was hardware maintenance (...

Dates:  7/6/17 - 7/10/17 Activities: CTG / NAF intern event, Make new page on Intranet Technical Information: OpenText TeamSite Reflection: The internship coordinator at Lenovo, or one of many at least, had organized an event called Intern Round Table set for July 11th. He informed us that we would be making introductions and gave us a slide template for us to fill out that said our name, school, intern position, what we learned, what we contributed to, and fun facts. On Friday, Mr. Dave sent me a few powerpoints on some really helpful e-commerce tips. They're super informative about advertising and taking cautions in social media and purchasing. He's actually been incredibly helpful during my stay here, what with him trying to get in contact with those from other departments so I can get more experience, and even sending me powerpoints on his own time. For Mr. James' privacy page on the legal team's section of the Intranet, I had to make a new page ...

Dates: 7/3/17 - 7/5/17 Activities: Cataloging files Technical Information:  Memotech Reflection: We had 2 days off for July 3rd and 4th. I got back on the 5th and the office was pretty empty because many people took off the whole week for vacation. There wasn't a lot for me to do that Wednesday so I helped Ms. Valeria catalog things to Memotech. Its yet another time-consuming task because I have to upload each individual file. I notice this recurring pattern actually: uploading each file individually because of the need to categorize each file separately. It's extremely time-consuming and requires a lot of patience, which I am slowly learning. My first time working with Ms. Valeria was possibly worse than now, simply because the first time involved heavy lifting. There were physical patents I had to categorize by type and date and the packets themselves were pretty heavy, especially when combined. But after the first Friday, everything else involving Memotech was just ...

Dates: 6/28/17 - 6/30/17 Activities: Small tasks and transferring to FINDit Technical Information: OpenText TeamSite, FINDit, Microsoft, Memotech Reflection:  The latter half of the week was simple, Mr. John sent me a document of who the content owners for each webpage would be and asked me to refine the document, just make it look more readable and understandable. Simple enough. I also added some documents onto the Intranet pages which was challenging to say the least. It was difficult figuring out how to upload documents so I could link it on the page but with a few hours and the training manual, I figured it out. I then had a meeting with Mr. James on Thursday to talk about what would be done with the privacy pages on the Intranet. He told me that there would be a separate page in another location on the Intranet but I could start with the smaller page right under the legal team's sections. After the meeting, I finished up transferring the FINDit documents and Ms. Kim f...

Dates: 6/23/17 - 6/27/17 Activities: Cataloging files and transferring to FINDit Technical Information: Memotech, FINDit Reflection: The days are slower what with many of legal team still too busy to provide content for me to upload. Much of my time is still occupied by transferring files to FINDit. There are really only two kinds of file types I upload them as: external vs. internal. Ie. files that are accessible to clients to sign vs. files that are for Lenovo viewing purposes only. The uploading process itself is what requires the longest amount of time, it entails uploading the document then naming it with a description, then classifying as internal or external and the specific type for example Agreements or Guides, then through to languages and countries. The internship definitely meets my expectations/objectives and actually goes above and beyond such. It was written in the description of the position that I would learn to use a certain software (OpenText TeamSite) an...

Dates: 6/20/17 - 6/22/17 Activities: Updating Intranet pages and transferring files to FINDit Technical Information: OpenText TeamSite, FINDit Reflection: These few days were dedicated mostly to the FINDit project because the content owners were too busy to provide me with content to add to the Intranet pages. The FINDit project involved the website FINDit and the Intranet lenovocentral in which I transferred about 100 documents or so. The process was extremely time consuming and took up the course of about a week or more (ie 40 or more hours) because I had to download files from the Intranet, then upload each individual document to FINDit and file it as a certain type of file with certain parameters for each file type. And then link each uploaded document to its place on a FINDit webpage. It is nice to be helpful even if it was a lengthy process. Mr. John also came to me with some requests to edit the Intranet pages, just simple tasks like deleting a few links from the nav...

Dates: 6/15/17 - 6/19/17 Activities: Go over responsibilities for projects Technical Information:  OpenText TeamSite, FINDit, Memotech Reflection: I met with my boss/manager Mr. John and he went over, in detail, my responsibilities for the maintenance of the Intranet pages. I would be receiving content from the people around the legal team and update the pages with their content. I also met with Ms. Kim and worked on updating a training powerpoint to later upload to FINDit. The Friday of my first week, I still didn't have much to do so I helped Ms. Valeria categorize and upload files onto Memotech, a virtual filing cabinet of sorts. It was tedious work, uploading each file individually since it was all the website was capable of doing, but it kept me busy for the whole 8 hours. I now feel bad for whoever (probably Ms. Valeria) had been doing it alone in the past. On Monday I started receiving more and more emails about the main project, updating the Intranet pages, and oth...

Dates: 6/12/17 - 6/14/17 Activities: Receive training on website usage Technical Information: OpenText TeamSite, FINDit Reflection: Although my position is a legal intern under Lenovo, I am actually employed under CTG to Lenovo. A contractor of indirect labor. Therefore, on my first day, I and my fellow interns attended an orientation to get to know CTG managers and the other interns. After orientation we were handed off to our Lenovo teams, mine being the legal department. I was greeted by Ms. Gina who then passed me off to Mr. John, Legal Department Chief of Staff, better known as my manager/supervisor. He introduced me to many people around the office and told me my overall tasks for the internship, to maintain and update the legal team's pages on the Lenovo Intranet. The next day I received training from Mr. Shane for OpenText TeamSite, a web content management software that Lenovo uses for their Intranet pages. I will be using this software for the duration of my i...