R Rengamurthi is a yr3 student on his intership at Optimatic Pte Ltd. Here is what he has to say about his experience:I started my Student Internship a week earlier than the stipulated date - on 22nd June. This had not only allowed me to prepare my work desk and tidbits, but also to get to know my colleagues in the office and most importantly to catch a glimpse of the several projects that I will be working on together with the rest of my colleagues.
I am currently interning with Optimatic Pte Ltd, a media centric company under the National University of Singapore Business Enterprise. We are basically a bunch of tech people who's core objective of the Business Enterprise is Business Incubation. In much simpler words, to help newly started businesses to grow and expand in the IT and Web Consumer Sectors both locally and regionally.
So what then is my job scope? Well, here's a glimpse of what my Company does. Besides Startup Business Incubation, we are also partly an Events Management company. We do big scale events like Conferences and Forums. Some examples - Web 2.0 Conference, UnConference 2009, Echelon 2010. These are big scale conference and forum events that see close to about 2 or 3 thousand major partners, shareholders, Developers CEOs, CTOs, Managing Directors and Media Partners of regional and international Web and IT sectors , in each event.
Sounds big eh? It definitely IS! Being in the forefront and networking with the developers of Facebook and Apple's CEOs and Developers is INDEED a BIG THING.
This is where my Job scopes come in. I'm currently the designer for the Optimatic Pte Ltd. I help to design EDMs (Electronic Direct Mailers), banners and posters for the conference and subsidiary events, brochures and event booklet that will be distributed to the thousands of international delegates to the conference. How cool is that - having thousands of people flipping through the event booklet that you designed and they wearing lanyards carrying the logos that you designed. And also not forgetting smaller entities like the company website as well as the conference websites.
My job scopes also includes marketing the events to our database of corporate sponsors and partners.
Our upcoming event will be a joint collaboration with SingTel - The Accelerate 2010 Conference in September. As i'm part of the Accelerate 2010 Working Team, I am also doing Speakers' Management. Sure you'll see Speakers coming to speak in the conference, and they would need a liaison. So I am the direct Liaising person with the Speakers. Its a BIG thing for me as im establishing a close contact with these people.
Its an exciting experience for me so far. And I can't wait for the conference in September. What more can you ask for - when you are already working with a team of experts and professionals who are all very friendly and helpful when you need assistance and when you are collaborating with big corporates like SingTel and establishing direct contacts with some of the major partners and CEOs of top companies in the world.
I am indeed blessed to have such an Internship experience and I am utterly sure that I would have the grip of experience attained during my Internship!
