During the summer after my Sophomore year, I had the opportunity to work at Fidelity Investmens and do a lot of Data Science work. I worked in a group called Fidelity Brokerage Technology where I worked on Prime tools for Hedge Funds, wrote Python scripts to find similarities between securities and created dashboards to reduce Fidelity's Risk. Scroll down to learn more.
My primary project at Fidelity involved analyzing trades and decisions that our clients would make and then run predictive analytics in a way that could tell us how much risk they were taking on and if that much was acceptable by Fidelity Standards. I was proud to be an integral part of the team and wrote several python scripts to parse, clean and compile data. When I started doing this work, I knew that I wanted to work with data for the rest of my life and the Informatics major affords me that unique opportunity
What I remember most vividly from the internship was the last week where HR lost a lot of their database people to a different department, so they asked me to stand up their analytics server. I was given a team of two and created a C2C Analytics server from scratch and automated all processes using Talend, Rundeck and MySQL. I was very proud that I was able to execute a task like this and grateful that I was given the chance to lead such an initiative. It made me realize how widely applicable informatics is and every department, every company needs this skillset. This drew me to the major even more.