In my fourth year at UC, I’ve found my third co-op company, moved up to the vice-president position on the hockey executive board, and served as treasurer for the ACM@UC chapter. These three events make a good summary of the meaningful things that I’ve accomplished, and also are the catalysts for how I’ve grown.
For Spring and Summer, the company that I’m working for is called International Technegroup Incorporated. They’re a much smaller company than either of the two that I’ve worked for before, something I was very happy to be able to find. It’s allowed me to do more meaningful work, a broader variety of work, and also interact with customers some while debugging their issues. I think the combination of the size of the company, and the attitude of the people here has led to me feeling much more at home here for my co-op, which has in turn contributed to the quality of my work, and how much i’ve learned here. Overall, I would say that despite it being the lowest paying co-op job that i’ve worked, it’s the co-op that I’ve enjoyed the most so far out of all of them, and also the one where I’ve grown the most.
As the VP of the club hockey board, my responsibilities have grown greatly. This year, it was largely just the President, Damien Lona, and I running the affairs, as we’re a little short staffed. While that did mean more work, it also made me that much more invested in the season as both an executive and a player. We made it further than we’ve ever gone before, reaching the regional playoffs, and I hope we’ll be able to just as much next year. I feel like hockey has really been a good jump-start for my motivation in all areas of my life this year, and I want to carry that forward into next year as well.
Lastly, I served as the Treasurer for ACM. While running just the ACM chapter isn’t a huge responsibility, doing the financials for RevolutionUC, the hackathon put on by ACM, was a lot of work. As the financial lead, I had to work with all of our different teams to make sure everthing ran smoothly, and I think this helped me grow a lot with regards to conflict resolution and coming up with good compromises related to that. It was a lot of experience working on a team that wasn’t a sport, and was comprised solely of my peers, which was very beneficial for me.
For Spring and Summer, the company that I’m working for is called International Technegroup Incorporated. They’re a much smaller company than either of the two that I’ve worked for before, something I was very happy to be able to find. It’s allowed me to do more meaningful work, a broader variety of work, and also interact with customers some while debugging their issues. I think the combination of the size of the company, and the attitude of the people here has led to me feeling much more at home here for my co-op, which has in turn contributed to the quality of my work, and how much i’ve learned here. Overall, I would say that despite it being the lowest paying co-op job that i’ve worked, it’s the co-op that I’ve enjoyed the most so far out of all of them, and also the one where I’ve grown the most.
As the VP of the club hockey board, my responsibilities have grown greatly. This year, it was largely just the President, Damien Lona, and I running the affairs, as we’re a little short staffed. While that did mean more work, it also made me that much more invested in the season as both an executive and a player. We made it further than we’ve ever gone before, reaching the regional playoffs, and I hope we’ll be able to just as much next year. I feel like hockey has really been a good jump-start for my motivation in all areas of my life this year, and I want to carry that forward into next year as well.
Lastly, I served as the Treasurer for ACM. While running just the ACM chapter isn’t a huge responsibility, doing the financials for RevolutionUC, the hackathon put on by ACM, was a lot of work. As the financial lead, I had to work with all of our different teams to make sure everthing ran smoothly, and I think this helped me grow a lot with regards to conflict resolution and coming up with good compromises related to that. It was a lot of experience working on a team that wasn’t a sport, and was comprised solely of my peers, which was very beneficial for me.
