Center for Careers & Internships

This information session will cover the steps needed to find a winter-term internship, earn internship credit, and secure funding support from the CCI (limited grants available to students on financial aid OR for internships related to conflict transformation). Students unable to attend may schedule an appointment with Cheryl Whitney Lower or any CCI advisor.

Come join us for CCI’s annual kick-off to Fall! Part snack break, part CCI party, the Center for Careers and Internships welcomes all students to stop by! Featuring Happy Valley apple cider, doughnuts, and apples.

Enjoy a quintessential Vermont fall treat, while learning about CCI and our resources. Meet our staff, our Peer Career Advisors, and the dogs of CCI!

Join us on the Kitchel House lawn any time between 3:30 and 5:00 pm.

Leaders in Technology Discuss the Future–Fall Family Weekend

Panelists:

John Bowllan ’19 (Math), Data Science Technical Lead, Whoop, will share his experiences working as a data scientist in a start-up tech company focused on the wearables market. His discussion will include an overview of the wearables market, the data and tools he uses in his work, the intersection of data science and software engineering, and his interactions with other functional roles.

Elizabeth Knox ’17 (Computer Science), Digital Analyst, McKinsey, will provide a case study of the consulting work in which she is engaged as a cloud engineer. She will discuss the software engineering skills she deploys, as well as the nature of technology consulting and how best to position yourselves for these opportunities.

Meghan Weber ’07 (History), Senior Space Product Manager, Amazon Web Services, will speak to her experience working as a product manager at Amazon Web Services (spoiler: you don’t need to be an engineer to become a product manager!). She will share more about what her day to day looks like, how liberal arts prepared her to be successful in the technology field as a non-engineer, what skill sets are important for the product manager role, tips on how to get started in the field, and how to prepare for an interview.

Leah Bracken ‘19 (Computer Science), Cloud Solutions Engineer, Google, will describe the exploding market for cloud solutions, her experience working as a solutions engineer, share how a liberal arts education has prepared her to be successful in this role, and what skillsets are important for entering this technical role.

Chris Hench ’11 (German Literature and Economics), Senior Applied Scientist ML/NLP, Amazon Alexa, will describe his path from studying languages and literature to building state of the art NLP models in industry. He will talk about some of the advances in NLP over the years and the current state of the field, as well as what it takes to acquire the necessary skills for industry applications. His unique pathway from literature to data science reinforces the idea that data science is not only for quantitative majors.

Dan Kelley ’99 (Political Science, German), Engineering Manager, Meta, will share his perspective that software engineering remains a less mature discipline than many other kinds of engineering and is constantly evolving. As software powers many aspects of the world, software engineering is not just evolving, it’s expanding. If you let your skills atrophy, you might find fewer job opportunities than you’d like when you go looking. But with the rate of change and finite time to learn, how do you decide which trends to jump on?

Pete McSherry ’06 (Economics), Senior Vice President, Platform Data Strategy, and Solutions, Epsilon, will give an overview of the market research space and speak to how data analytics is used within the market research, how it is used in personalization, and how different functional roles interact with data. Students attending will also gain a good understanding of the skill sets that help when first starting in market research.