Innovative Projects Realized

Systems Specialist

Londre Bodywear has been impacted by covid-19 and has had the opportunity to reflect on how plan for any future storms that need weathering. As the intern, I will help create systems that are pivotal for future risk management. I will help with trend forecasts to ensure accurate inventory and will refine internal systems to plan for company expansion.

Marketing & Business Analyst

BRIMM (Bradshaw Research Initiative for Minerals and Mining) launched our first MiningEd@UBC (https://mining.education) exclusively?online executive micro?certificate program. I will assist BRIMM to develop and implement a direct B2B sales strategy working directly with large mining companies around the province, country and world. I will also develop and implement a strategic marketing plan and intergrade it into the MiningEd@UBC program.

Business & Technology Development Intern

Expand Furniture is an online business but the founders do not have backgrounds in computer science, so we believe a student who is studying business and computer science will be able to help us with some low hanging fruit in terms of efficiencies on our website and making customers more confident with online purchases and increasing conversion with our current website traffic.

Some of the activities will include:
– Researching and adding new plugins
– Assessing and planning website improvements
– A/B testing for optimization
– Helping automate systems
– Finding efficiencies
– Using integration to connect various cloud software
– Google cloud
– Google app script
– Helping develop new online store fronts that connect into our system
-website updates
-new plugins
-optimization
-integration to connect cloud software
-project planning for future website migration to Shopify
-user experience improvement

Accounting Assistant

An intern is important to our organization’s future success as they will give us the opportunity to receive assistance with some of our bigger tasks and projects. An intern also brings with them new, up to date industry concepts, academic knowledge and ideas that may be useful for us to implement within our own organization.

The intern will gain accounting knowledge such as bank reconciliations, expense reports reconciliation, accounts payable (processing invoices, update invoice status, process payments, etc), assisting with aspects of full cycle accounting (depreciation calculation, prepaid amortization, revaluation of foreign currency accounts, etc). The intern will also assist with our internal processes, IT solutions, including SharePoint, improvements to processes etc.

MBA Intern

Affinity is expanding it service offerings and developing it’s consulting services division, Covid has enabled more services to be provided online and Affinity is looking to provide these services across Canada and the US. The MBA intern will assist in developing the strategy for the new service. This includes working with the Affinity Partner on developing the strategy for Affinity to expand their consulting and services business.

Accountant (MBSI)

Simply Bookkeeping Inc. (SBI) is a growing bookkeeping business that is expanding to provide different financial and virtual services. Key tasks for the Accounting intern include preparing financial statements in accordance with accounting policies, enhancing IT integration and variance analysis. Through these efforts, the intern can support SBI in providing value and efficiency to clients.

Project Coordinator Intern (MBSI) (May 2021), 9100065542

The Digital Lab is an integrated unit of both BC Children’s Hospital and the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics. In alignment with the vision of both organizations, Digital Lab produces and manages a portfolio of digital innovation projects that aim to improve pediatric health and healthcare services; including research, education, health advocacy, and the delivery of clinical services. As a Project Coordinator, the primary area the intern will be focusing on will be project management for digital innovation initiatives as well as strategy and operations management support within the internal operations and planning portfolio.

Digital Marketing Intern

The Digital Marketing role requires excellent copywriting skills; you will join our marketing team to educate and share our stories with employers across Canada. Through advertising and promotional campaigns, you will prospect and walk leads through the sign-up process. You are creative and enjoy working on marketing material like white-papers, case studies and infographics. You will help manage our social media channels and drive community engagement.

Business Operations

Affinity, a Vancouver-based IT and recruitment company will be undergoing some changes in 2021. During my internship, I will focus on improving current processes, support the establishment of tools, approaches for transformative initiatives within the Operations team at Affinity, maintain and coordinate documentation such as roadmaps and business cases on assigned projects, generate data, report analysis as requested by leadership across the business, support program management and coordination of corporate planning within the Operations team, and partner with members of the Operations team to ensure initiatives are completed as per timelines and stated objectives. This will be key for the growth of the company.

Lead Digital Marketing Intern

Marketing Funnel:

Develop a marketing funnel consistent with the FastTest brand
Create an email marketing campaign
Execute email marketing campaigns using Mailchimp and Pipedrive
Marketing Analytics:

Develop key performance indicators (KPIs) for social media and email marketing campaigns
Track conversion rates and customer acquisition costs
Digital marketing content:

Work with product development to develop customer personas – travel, film, food processing industry to understand customer needs
Create marketing content – digital fliers and forms that can be shared with customers personas

Product Manager Intern

As we will be launching an early adoption BETSY product in May 2021, the summer marketing intern will be responsible for taking the pre-exsiting marketing plan and ensuring its full implementation. We will need someone who can manage all social media accounts including posting, developing content and monitoring Google Analytics for the website, YouTube channel and media ad click through rates. We will also be developing the BETSY product to monitor other features in cattle as well as further development in sheep, elk, bison and species at risk. The ability to market BETSY to ranchers, nature parks/wildlife protectors, while understanding many of them lack technology. There is a strong component of market research involved so we can tailor product development to meet our customer needs. Assisting in customer, market and product research in the area of other livestock species will also be a student task.

The student will be working closely with the product development team to ensure BETSY and her other livestock counterparts are developed with the end user in mind. There will also be opportunities to aid in technical development if the intern possesses the necessary skills and interest.

Junior Business Analyst

I will be working as a Junior Business Analyst for BuildDirect Technologies Inc. I will be assisting the staff to grow the company’s e-commerce offering while working remotely. I will be working closely with the Product Manager to define product strategy, determine priorities, creating exceptional user and vendor experience, competitive product analysis, and creating design concepts with the team to implement and iterate.