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Interviewing

I was excited and nervous about the interview and although the National Park Service. Even though the National Park Service does not have a dress code for employees I wanted to show that I was serious about the internship so I dressed in a nice shirt and tie. Dr. Frysinger described the internhip offered by the Synthesis Regional Support Center of the National Park Service. This center will serve as a technical support center for the spatial relational database program Synthesis. The staff will be required to be familiar with the program and be able to give support to parks who are partipicating in the program. Dr. Frysinger compared the support centers functions to those of a help desk. Since this was a new program only a few parks will be supported, but more parks are anticipated to get involved in the future. The center is also expecting more information to be tracked in the future. This will lead to the necessity of a Management Information System. This system will handle all the information about support center staff and customers. After describing this to me he then asked me what skills I had that I could bring to this project. I told him that my work experience included working with teams and problem solving. This is where my class experience and outside work helped. I had taken CS 274 Intro to Databases, CS345 software engineering, and several classes which involved programming. I described that in my CS345 software engineering that we worked in groups to design and implement a resturant inventory software application. Since the internship involved working with a team and software producation this class experience would be helpful to the Synthesis support center. Dr. Frysinger stated that the information that will be tracked should be stored in a database. Describing my understanding of tables, keys, and queries I was able to persuade Dr. Frysinger that I had enough skills to be a part of the Synthesis Regional Support Center Staff.