Matt Wynn ’10 - Working for Computer Sciences Corporation this summer in Chicago has opened my eyes to the extent that technology has connected the world. CSC is a huge company with over 90,000 employees worldwide and we can all communicate with relative ease. In the span of a week I have spoken to people located all over the United States; but also in Canada, England, Scotland, Australia and India. The global reaches of this company have been fascinating for me as a student who spent 6 months abroad and has international career aspirations.

The alumnus that I am working for, Jake Koeneman ’06, and the rest of the CSC employees that I have worked with have done a terrific job of integrating me into their daily work. They have also done very well at making me feel like a team member rather than an intern. I have a company issued laptop and am fully incorporated into the address book and all of the communication software that CSC uses. The first project that I completed was interviewing the important players within our organization and then writing onboarding materials so that future new employees can quickly learn about our organization’s mission and role as well as learn “Who’s Who”. I am currently finishing up a project in which I have uploaded a Microsoft Access Database onto our Microsoft Sharepoint webpage so that more people can view and edit it, and have written working instructions for how to do so.

I like to think that my Wabash education has given me the thinking skills to quickly learn a complex organization as well as effectively communicate with people who have decades of experience within it. This position is definitely going to leave me with valuable work experience that will surely be necessary to be a competitive candidate in this tougher than desirable job market. Living in Chicago has been amazing and I would like to begin a career here in the future.