I spent my internship with the company McKula Inc.. Based out of Norvelt, Pennsylvania McKula Inc. offers various services such as; Search Engine Optimization, Sharepoint/Office365, Websites, Incident Tracker, and Custom Software. Search Engine Optimization means optimizing someones site so it has a higher chance to appear at the top of a search engine when someone has searched for certain keywords. McKula Inc. constantly creates websites, whether they be custom entirely or from one of their prebuilt templates. Sometimes clients provide a template. Incident Tracker is a product that they offer. It essentially is just software companies/universites use to do exactly what its name say; Track Incidents that occur within their company/university. They also will do any custom coding you need or even make any custom software you desire. I did not get a chance to touch or even look into their Sharepoint/Office365 services. They have one man who mainly does all of that. Going into this internship I thought that their only service was Custom Websites, boy was I wrong! This internship was truly eye-opening for me. Mainly cause they allowed me to see every aspect of their business. Not just the design side, but all that actual business such as; pricing, meetings, talking to clients 1 on 1, and so much more! I knew a lot of this existed within our industry but I have never had a more hands on in your face experience with it. I enjoyed so much; whether it be getting to sit right beside their developers and ask questions as they do custom work or even to working directly with a client 1 on 1. At times though, it seemed like the organization of whose in charge of what could become a little blurry. By that I mean every seems to have to be flexible to help each other and not just focused on their duty. Is that really that bad? No not really I suppose. I would recommend this to other students but not every student. They would need to have more then basic knowledge in print and web. Considering the company is obviously leading more towards the web side of the industry means that the student would need to be more on that side of the spectrum.

Honestly my biggest strength for this internship was my knowledge of the print-side of our industry. No one at McKula Inc. seemed to have any more then the basic knowledge of it, if that! So I was able to offer very strong opinions when their clients wanted print work. My supervisors liked this so much that we started doing all kinds of print work for their clients. Like postcards, business cards, and more! I was able to teach a few things to them also while

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GCT_299 Zachary Slezak Spring 2015McKula Inc. Patrick McKula and Brad Alan

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Date:(weekly) Hours Worked: Desc:Jan. 6 & 7 16 Redesign Feature List and Censor Media Gallery imagesJan. 13 12 Censor Media Gallery ImagesJan. 20 12 Sketching/Designing new Incident Tracker website pagesJan. 27 12 Finish Incident Tracker pagesFeb. 3 & 4 16 Redesign Shipping/Return Labels and began working on CutsheetsFeb. 10 12 Finished Cutsheets. Shadowed a developerFeb. 17 12 Resize/Crop/Edit images for websites. Began work on business cardsFeb. 23 & 24 18 Finished above images and business cardsMar. 3 12 Shadow developer again. Discuss background of business managementMar. 10 12 Shadow developer again. Critique design layouts of old websitesMar. 17 12 Shadow a conference call meeting. Began work on 3 business cardsMar. 24 12 Continue work on 3 business cardsMar. 31 12 Finish business cards. Design postcard with clientApr. 7 12 Tossed around ideas for new marketing ideasTotal Hours: 182

I was there. My biggest weakness though was kindve bad. I did not go into this internship with enough knowledge of web development. Every minute it felt like I was learning some-thing knew in web design. But now, at the end of the internship, I am coming out of school with not only a large amount of knowledge in print design but also web design. So this in-ternship could not have worked out any better. It was truly an amazing internship. Oh, and I also had to work almost exclusively with other workers/interns. So that was something I got to experience and it was truly a blast!

I got to design/make everything from postcards, to shipping labels, to buttons on websites, to layouts, to cutsheets/flyers, and more. It was always a surprise when I came in to McKula Inc. on what I would be doing that day. And I loved it. I feel my time management was very well. I always met my deadlines, actually always got it done way before them. I feel my work was excellent quality mainly because if someone wasnt satisfied I would not send out the design until I met everyones expectations. Or atleast as close as I could get. I honestly think I made an impact onto McKula Inc. by showing them that they could easily offer their clients more print services, even if they had to outsource it. This could lead to them making more profit in the long run. And they started to take advantage of this.

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