Externship Program
The externship program connects CDM alumni with students who want to learn about a specific career field. The program will allow a CDM undergraduate student who is considering a possible career in technology to shadow an alumnus in his/her workplace.
The selected students will join their sponsors in their workplace for a day to be arranged in the month of April.
Externships are offered by CDM alumni working for companies primarily in the Chicagoland area. However, there might be some occasional opportunities outside Chicago. Externships will be available in various IT career fields. The listing of externship opportunities will be available online soon.
Through the externship program, selected CDM students will be able to get an insider's view of their career choice by experiencing the day-to-day activities of their sponsors. Students will be able to discuss specific jobs and careers with alumni and their colleagues.
By sharing their professional expertise and knowledge, alumni will receive the satisfaction of knowing that they helped CDM students decide about their future careers, and that they introduced bright and motivated students to their career field.
For more information on the program, read the alumni and student FAQ pages:
The Federal Reserve Bank will conduct a “Day at the Fed” in spring quarter. This is a special day-long externship for CDM students. The day begins with a breakfast introducing you to the organization. After that you will rotate between departments, eat lunch with IT managers and staff and end the day with a tour.
Please send your resume and a cover letter explaining why you should be considered for this opportunity to Terry Steinbach for consideration by March 21st, 2011 9:00 a.m.
The information you provide will be used to create the externship profile. Your personal information will be kept confidential, only the anonymous description of the externship will be posted online and students will be able to browse the opportunities and select the one(s) closer to their career field of interest.
- Complete this registration form
- One day field experience conducted in April
- Application and letter of interest required for students
- Open to all sophomores, juniors, and seniors with minimum GPA of 2.5 and 80 credit hours
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Externship Opportunity
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Job Title
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Responsibilities
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E1
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Business Process Manager
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- Facilitating project status meetings
- Creating status reports
- Developing Scope and Functional Design Documents
- Gathering user requirements
- Performing data analysis
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E2
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Web Manager
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- Conduct monthly training sessions to teach employees our Content Management System (how to maintain our web site without advanced web design skills).
- Work with ASP/.Net developers to develop custom solutions (I design prototypes with focus on user research and user experience).
- Performed usability testing with potential end users of our new re.member product and all new software (task analaysis, contextual inquiry, card sorting).
- Evaluate and publish work of web content authors and correct any HTML errors - act as player-manager" with regard to maintenance of the site.
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E3
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Research Associate
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- Coordinate the design, development, execution and reporting of primary and secondary research projects for strategic plan
- Research support and other marketing strategy efforts in the higher education industry.
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E4
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Director of Information Systems
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I am in charge of the IT Department. I report to the Managing Partner (similar to the President or CEO of a Corporation). My daily activities include
- Monitoring Backups and other Logs
- Purchasing for IT Projects
- Leading Status and Update meetings with IT Staff
- Analyzing Financial Data with SQL and Business Intelligence Tools
- Troubleshooting Data Center and Server Technologies
- Handling Complaints and other Feedback from our 300 Users
- Answering a wide array of other requests received via Phone and Email
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E5
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Information Architect Manager
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- Managing key process development improvement strategies from: identification, information gathering, team coordination, and program development to final delivery.
- Establishing and developing relationships with key management decision makers, Global Business Systems team, Sales and Project Management to influence final process recommendations and development work.
- Developing new productivity initiatives to manage in order to achieve sales improvements and/ or cost efficiencies.
- Work with outside contractors and vendors to improve cost and quality of process and development coordination with system design and execution.
- Developing Web based applications whenever possible to provide key users access to all project, development work and management ability when appropriate.
- Authoring key reports and analysis for Front End Operations that include: Quotations, Call Center, Branches, Process Review Team, Large Customer Support, and the Customer Database team.
- Designing, coding, testing, maintaining and documenting programs to support and automate a wide variety of operation enhancements.
- Training end users and management on best practices based on lessons learned through initiatives developed.
- Creating automated jobs to record key metrics on projects initiated to provide team accessibility to view and scrutinize statistics.
- Managing and designing databases and integrate work with key GBS and SQL Server administrators to coordinate of efficiencies and knowledge sharing.
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E6
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Senior Software Engineer
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- Architect new products using open source technologies
- Lead development of proof of concepts in a tight time frame for management
- Help internal technology consumers to implement products to meet their needs
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E7
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Implementation Manager
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- On-boarding new clients onto the 1SYNC platform for data synchronization. Data formats include a spreadsheet load tool, XML, or input via a GUI
- Day-to-day interaction with clients of varying backgrounds (some technical and some non-technical) and acting as a liason to explain technical nuances to non-technical people
- Education and training sessions on GDSN (Global Data Synchronization Network) standards and best practices in the industry
- Troubleshooting issues encountered in loading data via GUI, Spreadsheet, or XML
- Consultations and assessments with potential customers, working closely with the sales team to show demos of our tools
- Project planning and milestones for implementation phases
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- Deadline for alumni volunteers to submit application – January 25, 2010
- Deadline for students to apply for externship – March 12, 2010
- Students notified of externship acceptance – April 9, 2010
- Information session for selected students (required to participate) – TBD
- Externship experience – April 2010
- Wrap up session for students – May 2010