Innovative Projects Realized

Business Process and Finance Intern

The company ShapeMeasure is a startup that is attempting to disrupt and revolutionize the hardwood and laminate flooring market, in particular stairs. By using custom precise measuring and cutting tools they are able to offer a unique solution to an existing problem in the market. My role is to create new standardized processes for their manufacturing and their overall business and to apply the knowledge I’ve learned in the MBA to assist with their financials and planning.

Scaling up algaculture by the use of a novelcirculation technology while optimizingproductivity by testing for the effects of lightintensity and C02 supply rate.

This project will address the scalability problem that currently exists in algaculture. Scaling up algae
production to the industrial level has been challenging. The reason’ being that productivity of
photosynthetic algae is highly dependent on light and CO2 availability, which become less available as
photobioreactor (algae tank) size increases. The solution is to use circulation technology to increase
algae access to the light and help maintain CO2 in solution and avoid losing it to the atmosphere
before it can be used by the algae. The paliner organization on this project has developed a new type
of fluid mixing technoiogy iilai maximizes light availability and increases CO2 utilization efficiency to
more than 99%. Tile project will involve testing this new technology for indoor large-scale algaculture
by optimizing light and CO2 supply for maximum productivity ill industrial-scales photobioreactors.

Marketing Coordinator

Virtus Groups integrates with high-growth organizations and startups to fill the gaps in people or functional capabilities that are naturally created by a period of high-growth; through customized solutions to various problems. Since the middle of March, Virtus Groups has been working hard to completely update and modify its sales outreach methods, marketing methods channels, and sales and marketing collateral. The intern will be a key in the marketing and business development efforts from overseeing content marketing plan and execution to working closely with sales personnel on campaigns, follow-ups, and reporting. All these activities will help Virtus Groups work at full capacity and grow the demand pipeline that they have worked so hard to augment during the pandemic.

Bookkeeper

G.SYNERGY BOOKKEEPING IS THE BOOKKEEPING, AND ACCOUNTING FIRM STARTED 4 YEARS AGO. WE ARE IN A PROCESS OF IMPROVING FINANCIAL LITERATURACY OF OUR CLIENTS, POTENTIAL CLIENTS AND OVERALL SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY. OUR PAPERLESS APPROACH AND DIGITAL PLATFORM ENABLE US TO PROVIDE SERVICE TO OUR CLIENTS SAVING TIME FOR THEM TO TRAVEL, PARK IN ORDER TO RECEIVE EFFECTIVE ACCOUNTING ADVICE. JUST BEFORE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, WE WERE IN A PROCESS OF CREATING SYSTEMS, PROCEDURES AND PLATFORMS TO BRING OUR STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE CLIENT SUPPORT ALIVE. AS COVID-19 PUT A PAUSE ON THIS AND CHALLENGED US IN MANY WAYS, WE WERE ABLE TO CONTINUE PROVIDING NEEDED SUPPORT TO OUR CLIENTS AND BUSINESS COMMUNITY. HOWEVER, THE IMPROVEMENT AND POTENTIAL BENEFIT TO ALL STAKEHOLDERS IS WAY BIGGER THAT CURRENTLY BEING OFFERED. THE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WILL BE WORKING ON THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM AND WILL BRING IMMEDIATE BENEFITS (ACCOUNTING FEES SAVINGS, TIME SAVINGS AND HUGE FINANCIAL EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT). THIS PROGRAM IS BROKEN DOWN INTO 3 AREAS:
1.THE INTERN WILL BE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN DAY TO DAY BOOKKEEPING ON TEST, BUT REAL 2 BOOKKEEPING CLIENTS, WHERE OUR FIRM-BASED BOOKKEEPING FOCUSES ON THE 3Rs: RECORDING, RECONCILIATION AND REPORTING.

HR Intern – Culture Improvement

The John Howard Society is a social services organization that supports over 25 different programs in Community Living Services, Community Services and Justice Services throughout the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley, Prince George and the Yukon Territory. As a result of COVID-19 the organization has taken multiple hits from reduced number of employees due to COVID-19 related issues and reduced support to their clients which has had a massive emotional impact on their employees. As part of the organizations strategic plan, improving employee retention and conditions of employment in innovative ways is more vital to their industry more than ever and Interns can help contributing to this in many ways.

I have three major deliverables:
1. Conduct a gap analysis on the organization based on Morneau Shepalls Total Health Assessment
2. Provide a road map on improving our overall score based on the four factors in the total health assessment
3. Achieve majority of deliverables outlined in roadmap created (decided in consultation with the other intern)

Business Strategy Intern

The proposed project will have the intern research existing and potential policies and procedures related to recycling end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Currently, Canada is looking to electrify their fleet in a move towards greener energy, however there is no standard for handling the batteries and there are no clear procedures or policies that ensure accountability and safe disposal. At the end of the project, the organization is expected to benefit from receiving a strategy recommendation as to how to tackle this issue and approach creating a solution for recycling electric vehicle batteries.

Business Analyst

We are a pre-revenue startup and looking to hire an intern to join our team. We were in the process of raising money for our company, but due to the COVID situation, we could not successfully raise the sufficient funding we needed to develop our technology. Thus, we could not hire more employees and we were slow done. This intern will help us to accelerate the process of our development and take our product to the market as soon as possible. Some additional projects that I will be working on include: market research, strategy planning, creating content/blog posts, and managing social media.

Sensor-based Collision-Free Motion Planning and Control for Autonomous Cart Pullers at Advanced Intelligent Systems (AIS)

The objective is to develop and implement safe navigation algorithms and frameworks for autonomous cart pullers that are supposed to move planted pots on carts within an unknown and dynamically-changing environment in plant nurseries. The cart puller operation needs to be done safely in an environment that is shared by other vehicles, nursery utilities such as planted pots, and human operators. In this regard, the developed software- and hardware-based framework should be capable to overcome following challenges: (1) perform perception using on board LiDAR and camera vision, (2) construct a safe global path between current state of the cart puller and its desired destination, (3) develop dynamic/local motion planning algorithms to avoid collision with obstacles, (4) generate control commands for trajectory tracking, and (5) integration of all modules. In this project, it is intended to use Robot Operating System (ROS) as the basic software framework for developed motion planning and control algorithms. Also for real-time purposes, Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) is planned to be used alongside ROS1.

High power density motor and converter for electric cars

Governments around the globe are pressing the automotive industry to reach lower emission and better efficiency with various specifications targets and regulations. With the increasing amount of electric vehicle models that are available and the higher demand on the market, major OEMs are looking for components to differentiate themselves and offer competitive solutions. As the electric traction motors and converters are relatively new components in the automotive industry, significant technological steps are observed in the industry regarding the power density and efficiency improvement. An integrated, high-density traction system, including a power converter and motor, will be developed allowing DANA TM4 to improve its products portfolio and demonstrate its technological leadership as a major tier 1.

Data & Research Intern

COVID-19 has had a dramatic effect on the finance industry, simply due to the industry being driven by “”in person””
meetings with teams, clients and customers as their core method of operating. The industry has been forced to adapt to
new circumstances, as physical office locations are shut down (us included), and in-person group and individual meetings
have been unable to take place. It has forced companies to find new ways to continue to operate efficiently, remotely, and
harness new and effective means of digital operations and infrastructure to keep things going.

Data & Research Specific Responsibilities
In depth research and data compilation of private capital markets financings in Canada and the US
Private capital markets financings, total amounts, by country and by sector
Analysis of tokenized securities offerings vs traditional public equity offerings (equivalent)
Digital securities research – total number of offerings, amounts raised, by industry and geographic region as well as clients the are potential users and capital raisers of digital securities. Design of specific propositions for potential clients of digital securities.

EVestG Optimization as a diagnostic tool for Meniere’s disease

Dizziness is among the top three reasons that patients seek medical attention, and one of the
most common disabling conditions that humans face. One of the diseases that may cause
dizziness is Meniere’s disease, which its correct and timely diagnosis and separation from
other causes of dizziness with current techniques are quite challenging. On the other hand,
Electrovestibulography (EVestG) is a new technique for recording vestibular responses in the
ear, and has shown very encouraging results for to show EVestG signals being capable of
discerning Meniere’s disease for both bilateral and unilateral impairments. This study is to
optimize the EVestG experimental protocol specific as a Meniere’s diagnostic test. We will
analyze data of all different stimuli of the current protocol EVestG recording, and select the
characteristic features that have the maximum relevancy and minimum redundancy for
shortening and optimizing the recording protocol to 2 or 3 stimuli instead of the 7 current
stimuli. We will then develop a pattern…TOBECONT’D

Financial Modelling Intern

Scale Enterprises Ltd provides assistance to non-profits, charities and social enterprises to diversify their revenue streams and become more enterprising. This role will primarily cover two key tasks:
1. Provide support to the Survive and Thrive program by assisting organizations with their different financial modelling and scenario planning, and developing templates that can be adjusted and scaled out across the sector — this role will be closely supervised by a highly knowledgeable team;
2. Looking at private/non-profit partnership models around real estate acquisition– this will require base research and analysis, and financial modelling of different scenarios.