The primary focus for the student will be: 

• Website Development - Conducting a needs analysis to determine which platform is most suitable for our website; creating a design proposal including mock-ups, budget, and timeline; building a fully-functioning website for our organization.
• Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application.
• Software Architecture Development - Architecting the software of a new product; improving the architecture of an existing system; porting an architecture of one system into another.
• Software Evaluation (e.g. new CRM) - Conducting a needs analysis; researching available options; evaluating the options within the context of our organization's budget, immediate needs, and projected needs.
• Application Programming Interfaces - Redesigning an existing API to simplify it; changing API technologies; designing a new API; creating or updating public-facing documentation.
• Software Lifecycle Analysis - Improving our existing software development lifecycle methodologies; determining if we should use a waterfall approach or an agile approach; researching tools for continuous delivery or integration.
• Open Source Software Management - Researching potential open source tools for our organization’s use; contributing to open source projects through bug fixing or feature implementation.
  

Our goal at the end of this experience is: 

• Website Development - For the student(s) to complete a fully functioning website.
• Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application.
• Software Architecture Development - For the student(s) to provide a solution to our architecture issue to ensure optimal performance and sustainability.
• Software Evaluation (e.g. new CRM) - For the student(s) to help us choose the most ideal software to invest in based on our user and/or organizational needs.
• Machine Learning Software Solution - For the student(s) to help us develop effective machine learning solutions that improve our customers' experience each time they interact with our brand.
• Real-Time Data Visualization - For the student(s) to help us devise and implement a data visualization system to help our organization derive insights to inform decision-making.
• Software Lifecycle Analysis - For the student(s) to help us optimize our software development systems and procedures.
• Open Source Software Management - For the student(s) to help us develop a set of tools we can implement in a new product build.
  

Other duties the student may complete could include: (indicate other duties as exemplified below)

• Software vendor research and evaluation
• Assisting with other process improvement projects
• Unit and integration testing
• Responding to IT/Service Desk requests

We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Slack, Tandem, Jira, Confluence

Student's primary contact: Ralph, CEO

Secondary contact: Prisa, HR Lead