Sleepless in Seattle
Pushing through my first presentation
Three
weeks into the internship and I had my fist presentation for 8 people. I promise
you it wasn’t a walk in the park that one. As I wrote in my previous post, I’m
working on the assessment of a new and exciting product for the Lync team.
Everyone has something to say about that product since they either think it
could have a huge success or a huge failure (nothing in between). So you see,
it gets lots of attention from all the people that even remotely are connected
to Lync.
I
managed to work for 10 days on the 50 minutes presentation, which was my “Kickoff
Presentation” and even spent 4 nights crunching data and slides so I won’t screw
things up badly. I even prepared a little show for the presentation, and made a
model of the product so people could actually imagine it. Eventually all went
well, and now I’m off to the second quarter of the project.
The
most important thing on the last two weeks was the arrival of my family. My
wife and two kids got here during the weekend and we immediately went for some
trips in the area. So till now I can say that every weekend I do something
great. I visited the Snoqualmie pass in the Cascades, Tiger Mountain and Deception
Pass, rode the ferry across the Puget Sound and some great HH’s.
For my
project a mentor was assigned to me to guide me through it and help me in every
aspect of the work related issues. In addition I got a ‘buddy’ who is my
Microsoft connection to all the off-the-record questions that I have (from
salary through networking). I can tell
you that I really enjoy my work here, not only because I have such a great time
with the people in my team and an amazing project but also because my building
is on the edge of the campus and I can see deers right outside my window!!!
See
you next post,
Barak
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