Post Internship Thank You Letter
Dear Barbara,
It has been a pleasure working for you and being a part of the “pit crew” team this summer. Since the very beginning of the internship I felt very welcomed by you and the whole team. The amount of knowledge and skills I have acquired this summer are innumerable. It is hard to believe that these 10 weeks have flown by so fast.
I am very appreciative for our weekly one on one meeting. I enjoyed being able to hear feedback from you about my performance which has made me more aware as a person. I have learned the importance of presentation and proper documentation from you. I also must say your sense of professionalism has rubbed off on me. You are a great leader and you have fostered an environment where team members can communicate with you whenever they have questions or issues.
I’m sure I could on and on about this experience but I will end it here. I simply want to say thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your team. Thank you for allowing me to contribute to the team’s success. Thank you for this opportunity to expand my knowledge. Thank you.
Best regards,

Emerging Technology
Introduction:
Vanguard has been in the financial investment industry since May 1, 1975 with its first location in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Since then Vanguard has made a presence in North Carolina, Arizona, and international locations such as the Netherlands, France, Canada, England, Switzerland and Australia. As of December 31, 2011 Vanguard manages approximately $1.7 trillion in U.S. mutual funds and has proven to be a fierce competitor among its competition. In order to maintain this competitive edge, Vanguard could benefit greatly from taking advantage of virtual reality.
Company background:
Vanguard is an American investment management company that is mostly known for its low-cost index funds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. Vanguard offers advice and other services to personal investors, institutional investors, and financial advisors. Vanguard’s first fund, the Vanguard Wellington Fund, opened for business in 1929 just before the stock market crash. The Vanguard Wellington fund is today the nation’s oldest balanced fund. In 1958 Vanguards oldest stock fund, the Windsor Fund, opened to investors. Finally, in 1975 Vanguard was officially founded with John C. Bogle. Soon after, Vanguard established itself as a company where the mutual funds own the management company. Since being founded Vanguard has pledged “ To take a stand for all investors, treat them fairly, and give them the best chance for investment success”.
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I had the pleasure of working at Vanguard in Charlotte, NC. Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment management companies and they have a major need for IT professionals. I participated in the IT College to Corporate Program. The College to Corporate program is a 10 week internship that is filled with real life experience and many opportunities for personal and career development.
Within the IT division of Vanguard, I worked as a user interface developer in the Institutional Systems (IS) department. The IS department builds and supports high value business technology solutions for institutional retirement plan services. My team worked on the plan sponsor bridge application. The Vanguard Plan Sponsor Bridge is a secure, web-based management and reporting tool for institutional retirement plan sponsors. This "Bridge" helps them better manage their retirement plan(s). Plan sponsors can perform common tasks online, which helps simplify and streamline plan administration.
I worked on the plan sponsor back log items and custom reporting features. The plan sponsor bridge application is undergoing major enhancements and I was responsible for identifying any unused resources that existed in the application. These unused resources were impeding the application from being fully tested and created a lot of inefficiencies within the team. At the end of my internship I was able to identify over 200 resources that were unused and slowing production down.
There have been a few key college classes that have been beneficial along the way. The computer applications in business, software design, and web based support systems courses have been helpful. I used many excel techniques to document my analyses and sort information. From the software design course I used some programming concepts we learned to develop in Java. The knowledge that I obtained from the web based support systems course was helpful when I parsed HTML and CSS files because I understood how everything worked.
I left the internship with a lot more knowledge than I came in with. I learned a lot of new programming techniques and became familiar with new technologies such as java server faces, facelets, java server pages, YUI, and the spring framework. I learned more about Java and got some exposure to Perl, and Mainframes. Outside of the technical realm, I picked up some other skills. I became well versed in the agile methodology of project management. I attended several informational sessions about different IT roles within the organization. I became a better communicator and learned about proper business protocol. I also attended some diversity trainings that will help with career and personal development.
This internship has given me insight into the roles of developers, business systems analysts, user interactions designers, systems testers, and project managers. This exposure has helped me realize that in the future I want to become a senior user interface interactions designer. Having the opportunity to speak to 3 UI designers at the company has confirmed that this is a career I want to pursue. Overall, this has been a rewarding experience and a nice introduction to the “real world”.
Java Traverse import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.DataInputStream; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.applet.*;
/*
* Traverses a directory and looks through all files to see if they contain a specific String
*/
public
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String name =
String path = aFile.getAbsolutePath();
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{
class DirectoryReader {static int spc_count=-1;static void Process(File aFile) {spc_count++;"";"";"\\","\\\\");for (int i = 0; i < spc_count; i++)"";if(aFile.isFile())//System.out.println(aFile.getName());
FileInputStream fstream = try{new FileInputStream(newPath); // Get the object of DataInputStream for server pages
DataInputStream in =
BufferedReader br =
String strLine;
}
new DataInputStream(fstream);new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in)); while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {//Close the input stream in.close(); } catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any
System.
}
}
err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());else if (aFile.isDirectory()) {//System.out.println(spcs + "[DIR] " + aFile.getName());
File[] listOfFiles = aFile.listFiles();
Process(listOfFiles[i]); }
System.
}
}
} if(listOfFiles!=null) {for (int i = 0; i < listOfFiles.length; i++)else {out.println(spcs + " [ACCESS DENIED]");spc_count--; public static void main(String[] args) {//String nam = "C:\\BridgeBatch12.5.0";
String nam =
File aFile =
Process(aFile); } }
"C:\\Documents and Settings\\UNBI\\My Documents\\Bridge Enhancements Internship\\Bridge Code";new File(nam);
Java Diff import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.DataInputStream; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.util.*; public class SimpleDiff {
/**
* Places each line of a text file into an array list and accepts the text document name as a parameter * @param textFile * @return */ public static ArrayList<String> textToArray(String textFile) { //Places each line of a text file with the name textFile into an array list ArrayList<String> textLines = new ArrayList<String>(); try{ FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(textFile+".txt"); //Get the object of DataInputStream for server pages DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in)); String strLine; //Read server pages line by line and assign this value to strLine while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) { textLines.add(strLine.trim()); } //Close the input stream in.close(); } catch (Exception e){//Catch exception if any System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage()); } return textLines; } /** * Returns the differences of two text files. * * @param listA * @param listB */ public static void diffArrayLists (ArrayList<String> listA, ArrayList<String> listB) { System.out.println("--------------------------------------------"); System.out.println("Not in criteria B"); System.out.println("--------------------------------------------"); //Returns lines of listA which are not found in listB for (String s: listA) { if (!listB.contains(s)) System.out.println(""+s); } System.out.println("--------------------------------------------"); System.out.println("Not in criteria A"); System.out.println("--------------------------------------------"); //Returns lines of listB which are not found in listA for (String s: listB) { if (!listA.contains(s)) System.out.println(""+s); } } public static void main(String args[]) { String x;

ArrayList<String> criteriaA = new ArrayList<String>(); criteriaA = textToArray("CriteriaA"); ArrayList<String> criteriaB = new ArrayList<String>(); criteriaB = textToArray("CriteriaB"); diffArrayLists(criteriaA,criteriaB); }
}