Innovative Projects Realized

HR Strategist

Currently Veza has lost some of its contracts due to COVID-19. This role is pivotal in helping bring a diversity/inclusion tool to market that will help with business succeed and deal with what is happening in the world.
This role will provide the go to market strategy and help define the analytics. This position is thoughtfully orchestrated to provide the intern with strategic projects, broad exposure to the company, and bodies of work that will impact the business directly. As an HR Coordinator, the intern will be at the center of the company’s transformation, carrying the energy of our company’s culture to help leaders, teams, and individuals model our cultural attributes and drive the business forward. This position involves learning and applying diversity and inclusion principles, creating resources and toolkits.

Digital Marketing Coordinator

I will be completing a Digital Marketing Coordinator internship with Major Tom. The company, a strategy-first digital agency, has faced considerable challenges due to COVID-19. My role will provide relief in workload in many areas. Specific activities will include: developing and managing case studies, uploading content onto the website, creating Google Display Network ads, and supporting the internal marketing team with ad hoc projects.

Junior Professional Consultant

The Junior Professional Consultant internship entails working hand in hand with the Mikel Consulting Team to develop projects related to their clients’ needs. This often means building comprehensive business plans, financial modelling and pitch decks. Additionally, the intern would play a key role in developing disaster management strategies to help businesses navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. This internship will directly contribute to Mikel’s ability to scale and grow, which will encourage further business development throughout Canada.

Customer Experience Coordinator

With COVID-19, a number of challenges have surfaced for landlords. There have been numerous rent relief programs and new policies surrounding rent abatement and supplementation to assist tenants, meaning increased contact and need for research on the landlord’s behalf. We are seeing increased vacancy in our portfolio as well as slower lease-up of vacant spaces. Furthermore, COVID-19 has introduced some logistical challenges to the lease up of residential space.
Retention of our renters and leasing vacant space to new renters is key to our continued survival as a small property management firm; the Mitacs internship student will focus on improving our service interactions with both existing and potential renters, which is key to ensuring their continued satisfaction.

Business Strategy Internship: Marketing Research

The Dobson Lagasse Centre has entered a time of great uncertainty since March 2020. Plans by the university are in flux. A second wave may change current plans. How to provide students with experiential learning opportunities and how to provide them with entrepreneurial skills in a time of physical distancing are unclear.
COVID-19 has had an important effect on business and jobs in the Eastern Townships, to which the DLC needs to respond. The the support of this marketing research internship, what the needs are and how the DLC should be assisting will be clarified and established.

Marketing Representative

Agartee Technology had been providing a real-time monitoring solution using wearables and other smart devices for seniors with respiratory ailments (COPD & Asthma). These are the population most at risk from serious or deadly outcomes for COVID- 19. Both based on the companies initiative and at the request of various stakeholders (Govt. entities, clinicians, partners and customers), they have reworked their COPD solution for the real-time monitoring of COVID-19 symptoms. The system is already being tested or deployed in Long-term Care homes in Ontario and Quebec, but are getting requests for information from around the world. Agartee is looking to expand their reach to long term care homes and other facilities in various regions and need help with their marketing efforts. They are looking for someone to assist with and hopefully manage, both our outbound and inbound digital marketing efforts. This would include maintain contact data in their CRM and Marketing system, earning and using Hubspot for our inbound and outbound marketing, setting up campaigns, assisting with website optimization and SEO, writing of blogs and other marketing content, including social media such as LinkedIn and twitter. Agartee will provide ongoing guidance, training and review materials produced.

Structural and Thermal Analysis of an Insulated EPP Wall Panel System Design

Factory-built structural insulated panels are used for off-site building construction to minimize the labour needed for construction framing, which aims to save construction time and improve the quality of the installation. The panels, instead of using wood or steel framing, are the structural support for walls. Although the insulated panels provide structure, additional reinforcements are needed in order for the panels to be used on a multi-storey residential building. Using numerical simulations, this research investigates the predicted locations where the addition of such reinforcements would promote excessive heat loss through the walls which leads to increased energy consumption for the host building. The structural design of the panels would then be revised in the aim of minimizing heat loss. The partner organization is focused on developing energy efficient construction products and the outcomes of this research would provide insight to further improve and develop the proposed insulated panels in consideration of sustainability and energy efficiency.

Operational Improvement Specialist

The Vancouver Aquarium, an Ocean Wise initiative, is home to thousands of ocean species and amazing aquatic life. It is also Ocean Wise headquarters, where our scientists, educators and conservation experts do their work, not only to protect our oceans but to inspire others to join us in our mission. The internship will review accounting processes with the intent of reducing paper documents as well as develop document management systems that could be applied to the contracts as well as accounting documents.

Machine Learning for User Behaviour Prediciton in Mobile Games

With the growth of the social networks and mobile gaming devices in recent years, the social gaming
became an important part of the game industry. These social games provide huge amount of data
about the users’ behaviors, an important issue for the gaming companies is to analyze this data and
model the choices and behavior of the users and based on this model they try to improve their product
and predict the behaviors of their users. The expected benefit to the partner organization is the
research and adaption of new techniques for modeling user behaviour for social gaming

MITACS McMaster 2020

The company is developing a next generation, portable diagnostic drug testing platform. The product is designed to provide fast and accurate on-site drug detection. The goal is to develop a point-of-care (POC), real-time oral fluid drug screening platform for the detection of Drugs of Abuse initially focusing on cannabis and alcohol.

Public Relations Intern

Citizen Relations is a public relations agency with clients across a variety of industries, such as entertainment, travel and tourism, CPGs, health and wellness, and beyond. With the cancellation of intern programs across local post-secondary institutions, Citizen Relations finds that it has a fair bit of work available that would lend itself well to a summer internship. It feels strongly that this would, not only add value to its company in the short-term but would also provide a valuable experience for local students looking to immerse themselves in the dynamic world of agency PR. The intern would be involved with both internal and external communications, research, analysis, and other activities and would play an important role in helping both Citizen Relation’s clients and the company as an agency restore and pivot business operations in this new environment.

Business Analyst Co-op

I will be joining TTT Studios as a Business Analyst Co-op student where I will be assisting the company with sales proposals by collaborating with the engineering and design team. As a Business Analyst Co-op, I will be documenting product and project flows, developing reports and presentations, as well as recognizing any potential improvements to be made with current processes.

Our sales channels feed our engineering and design teams. We had booked enough work to sustain our engineering and design teams up until recently (most projects last three to nine months) but now, many of those projects are coming to an end. Much of the future work we had in our pipeline has dried out directly due to COVID19. We need to maximize the opportunities we have currently in our pipeline so that we can keep away from any situation where we would have to lay anyone on the team off. The intern will provide us with more bandwidth on the sales side and help us create the best presentations possible for when we make our pitches to potential clients.