Sponsor Highlight: Primerica
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This past year, WIT Campus, in partnership with Primerica, conducted a three-part virtual series focused on API. Students not only gained an exclusive educational experience by attending these events, but they were also given the opportunity to be considered for a summer internship with Primerica.
We are so proud of all WIT Campus students who participated in the API Event Series, but would like to specifically congratulate and highlight the hard work of Ms. Olubukola Ajayi and Ms. Jamilah Franklin for being offered paid internships this past summer with Primerica.
During her internship, Olubukola was part of Primerica’s Data Management team, where she learned Power BI reporting and was given assignments to create reporting dashboards. These dashboards will be used by the Data Management team at Primerica for data migration. Olubukola was also part of scrum calls, where she was exposed to various technologies and challenges in the corporate world. In addition, Olubukola was introduced to QA, where she had a walkthrough with the QA Manager and QA Lead and learned about concepts and the importance of testing, where she specifically gained experience in exploratory testing.
Olubukola elaborated on her responsibilities, stating that she “learned how to use Power BI desktop for interactive visualizations, effectively manage and use information, look for patterns, understand database design concepts and being able to participate in short and long-term planning about database projects.”
Jamilah joined the IVR Team for her internship, where she worked on migration and enhancements for Primerica’s IVR workflow documents, ranging from Jazz RTC to Confluence. Here, she developed hands-on experience and a firm understanding of how IVR’s are designed and work. Jamilah was not only exposed to technologies used in IVR’s, but also to DevOps pipelines and tools. The documentation created by Jamilah is extremely valuable and will be a resource for both the IVR team and the entire business as a reference for when enhancements and changes need to be introduced.
When asked what her favorite part of the internship was, Jamilah responded, “My favorite thing about being an intern is that I was able to learn tons of information about how phone systems are developed and how they operate. I have always been on the customer end of the IVR system. This internship allowed me to be on the developer side of the system.”