Summer Internship in Norman!

Adrienne Jablonski let us know that PCI here in Norman is very keen on hiring some math students to be summer internships.  The information is below, or you can contact Adrienne for further information.  She can also help you get your resume, etc. in good shape.

The PCI College Internship Program is a structured, supervised, short- term opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to perform tasks that build on classroom theories to make real decisions and gain relevant work experience. The typical internship at PCI lasts one semester, with Interns typically working up to 20 hours per week during the Fall or Spring semester and up to 40 hours per week during the Summer semester. Participating students are paid and may also receive academic credit from their university.
To be considered for the Internship Program at PCI, applicants must have completed a minimum of 90 credit hours with a grade point of 3.5 or above. Work will be performed at the PCI Corporate office at 301 David L. Boren Boulevard, Suite 2000, Norman, OK. There is a CART bus stop at the PCI Norman office as well as free parking.
Interested students may apply at – www.powercosts.com/pci-internships

A few of our Summer projects include, but are not limited to:

• Business Analyst-Intern in Market Systems communicating with product owners, quality assurance and delivery teams to focus on developing a baseline regression test plan and test case suite for the quality assurance of an emerging product line.
•  Technical Writer-Intern focusing on PCI’s Data Warehouse product combining information from multiple sources, including SME interviews and software analysis, to provide a description of data movement between software systems.
• Business Analyst-Intern in Market Systems working with PCI’s Deal Management team to produce documentation and other training material for different Deal Management software modules.

Internships!

Now is the time of year when you should be figuring out what you’re doing next.  Adrienne Jablonski has let us know of internships for math folks.

One is at Friend of the Math Club, MSCI:

“Operations Analyst – Custodian Operations (Seasonal)”

*Norman, OK.

 

ABOUT MSCI Inc. (www.msci.com)

 

MSCI Inc. is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools.

The company’s flagship product offerings are: the MSCI indices which include over 120,000 daily indices covering more than 70 countries; Barra portfolio risk and performance analytics covering global equity and fixed income markets; RiskMetrics market and credit risk analytics; ISS out-sourced proxy research, voting and vote reporting services; CFRA forensic accounting risk research, legal/regulatory risk assessment, and due-diligence; and FEA valuation models and risk management software for the energy and commodities markets. MSCI is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world.

For further information on MSCI, please visit our web site at www.msci.com

 

POSITION OVERVIEW:

We are currently seeking a Temporary Custodian Operations Analyst professional to join our Governance Organization in Normal, Oklahoma for a period of 6 to 7 months.

Responsibilities:

For more information about careers with Argo, go here.

 

• Monitor the processes by which information and data are added to or exported from production systems through electronic data feeds and other media.
• Maintain data to ensure quality of mission critical information using both proprietary applications and commonly used business software applications.
• Monitor key performance indicators to ensure the integrity of assigned data management areas.
• Work with account managers and client on boarding to ensure that required client data is received in a timely and high quality manner.
• Ensure comprehensive audit trails are in place for data that is received from or sent to production systems.
• Monitor quality control metrics to identify potential data issues and taking ownership of resolution for all issues that are identified.
• Support development of training documentation and systems to support growing team

In addition to the above team responsibilities, the following activities are representative of the Temporary Custodian Operations Analyst functions:

• Procure and process custodian account information to meet desired turn-around goals
• Develop and refine relationship with Custodian banks
• Single POC for all assigned custodian specific inquiries
• Responsible for operations specific Key Performance Indicators
• Timely resolution of workflow related processes and internal questions
• Perform Quality Assurance activities to ensure proper execution of assigned tasks
• Coordinate with account managers to resolve issue identified during Master Account List review cycles
• Additional duties as assigned by manager

 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Excellent oral and written communications
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills
• Team player and an excellent relationship builder
• Demonstrated analytical skills with strong attention to detail
• Innovative, motivated, client-oriented and commercially-aware thinker
• Absolute personal and business integrity

We value quality, elegant implementation, teamwork, and especially product delivery. If you enjoy a high-energy, friendly and fun work environment, this is the place.

And the other is at Argo (not Argo):

Title Internship – Analytical Sciences Developer
Location/Division Richardson, TX
Job Description BASIC FUNCTION OF JOB
An ASG Developer implements mathematical models. This activity entails software design, development, testing, documentation, maintenance, evolution, and innovation. ASG Developers leverage a combination of mathematical skills and software development skills to produce innovative, enterprise-level analytical software.

WORK PERFORMED
Assist with the development of ARGO’s state of the art business applications. Responsibilities include testing, documenting and some programming of ARGO’s business solutions or productivity tools. Participate in full system life cycle of application functionalities that are vital to the automation of financial institution business processes.

• Work across departments to understand and document requirements
• Create design documents for new and existing development
• Ensure assigned functionality adheres to performance and development standards
• Prepare conceptual, detail and technical design documentation
• Quickly identify issues and provide resolutions
• Use quality assurance procedures to report defects and propose enhancements
• Develop leadership skills through accountability and team dynamics
• Work with teammates to achieve the highest quality, industry leading products

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio, object oriented programming, unit testing, automation testing, and software reengineering is a plus.
• Experience with some of the technology stacks below:
• C, C++
• Lua
• C#, .Net
• Java
• R
• Able to produce and interpret design specifications and technical documentation.
• Able to work in a team environment.
• Must have effective written and verbal business communication skills.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree plan in Computer Science (CS), Software Engineering (SE), or Mathematics.
Minimum GPA of 3.0 in core classes.

Employer seeks only applicants legally authorized to work in the U.S. and will not sponsor visa matters

ARGO is the leading software provider of solutions for the financial services industry. Today, our customers come from all parts of the financial services world—from the nation’s largest banks to community-centered credit originators and processors. Over 40 of the nation’s top financial institutions use ARGO solutions to process more than 65 million transactions in 35,000 financial centers each day. Financial institutions depend on ARGO because we innovate at the crossroads of real customer problems and breakthrough technology. Come join ARGO and let your ingenious ideas be heard. We are looking for creative problem solvers with a passion for innovation to join our team and revolutionize the way the financial institutions do business.

For more about careers with Argo, go here.

Math Club with Adrienne Jablonski!

There will be the first Math Club of the semester on

Wednesday, February 6th at 5 pm in PHSC 1105.

As summer/graduation approaches, one’s thoughts turn to jobs.  Adrienne Jablonski will alk about jobs, internships, how to write a cover letter and a resume.  Don’t miss it!

Plus, there’ll be the usual Free Pizza!

Spring Career Events at OU

As the spring semester starts up, you should already be thinking about what you’ll be doing after the semester.  If you’re graduating, you’re looking for a career and if not, then you should be thinking about summer internships.  In any case, Adrienne Jablonski in the OU College of Arts and Sciences is looking out for you.

You can make an appointment with her on iAdvise and she’ll help you find openings, get your resume and application in order, and get ready for interviews.

She wanted us to let you know about some career events which are already on the schedule:

• February 20, OU Spring Career Fair, OMU Ballroom, 12:30-4:00pm
• February 27, A&S Student Networking Reception with Employers, OMU Beaird Lounge, 4:30-6:00pm, Free Food, Invitation to come.

Check them out!

And be sure to visit the CAS Career Development website:

http://cas.ou.edu/career-development

Because you don’t want this to be your summer job.

Career Opportunities with MSCI

Adrienne Jablonski let us know that MSCI, Inc. are looking to hire people for their Norman office.  Specifically, they are hiring for an Operations Voting Analyst and an Operations Control and Audit Analyst. All majors are welcome to apply. Key skills are excellent oral and written communication skills, excellent organizational skills, strong computer skills, good team player, demonstrated analytical skills.

If you’d like more information or help with your resume, etc. you should talk to Adrienne.

And in case you haven’t heard of MSCI before (they came to Math Club last year):

MSCI Inc. is a leading provider of investment decision support tools to investors globally, including asset managers, banks, hedge funds and pension funds. MSCI products and services include indices, portfolio risk and performance analytics, and governance tools.

The company’s flagship product offerings are: the MSCI indices which include over 120,000 daily indices covering more than 70 countries; Barra portfolio risk and performance analytics covering global equity and fixed income markets; RiskMetrics market and credit risk analytics; ISS out-sourced proxy research, voting and vote reporting services; CFRA forensic accounting risk research, legal/regulatory risk assessment, and due-diligence; and FEA valuation models and risk management software for the energy and commodities markets. MSCI is headquartered in New York, with research and commercial offices around the world

Opportunities with Demand Media

Last week Rees Dooley, an OU math graduate (2011) and former Math Club participant, talked about his job in Math Club.  He works as a software engineer for Demand Media and they’re hiring!

Rees talked about their open positions.  To look at the full list, go here.

If you are interested in applying, you should contact Rees (and when you apply, tell them that you heard about the opportunity from Rees Dooley!).  If you’d like help getting your resume and job application ship-shape, make an appointment with Adrienne Jablonski in the College of Arts and Sciences office.

The one’s Rees talked about were the software engineer and intern positions.  Here’s a little more info:

We’re looking for an ambitious, driven, self-starter who wants to be on the leading edge of developing technology and the social media evolution.
Demand Media, Inc. is seeking a server side software engineer for its Austin office.

The candidate must be able to demonstrate a proven track record of designing and writing excellent code and be prepared to bring code samples for discussion. An ideal candidate will have experience with high- performance, high-scale web applications, test driven development, and web technologies like JSON, HTTP, HTML, and REST.

Responsibilities:

Write, Unit test, debug, and troubleshoot critical online software applications. Work on a small team of highly motivated programmers and testers to develop and iterate software components. Work with a product organization to help define features that will aid the business goals of
Demand Media. Develop new, and modify existing functionality to fulfill feature requirements.  Work to improve the efficiency and functionality of existing software solutions.  Research new technologies and incorporate them into new systems and products.  Collaborate with other teams and facilitate integrations. Resolve issues with speed and quality as bugs have an immediate direct business impact.

Requirements:

1 – 3+ years of professional software development experience. Strong experience in Python is preferred, but a solid background in other languages (Java, .NET,C++) may transfer. Some experience with Object Oriented Programming. Bachelor’s degree in BSCS, Math, Physics or equivalent experience.

Pluses:

Experience with Distributed Systems/Cloud computing. Experience in a Web application development environment strongly preferred.  Experience in a MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.

and:

We are seeking motivated intern engineers to work closely with our experienced crew. You will be shadowing top engineers picking up key development tasks in a larger architecture. Your work will hit production and you will learn the ropes. Our systems are large scale, high volume, decoupled, message based using the latest techniques. There are many areas to contribute from one off algorithm implementations to key core system development contributions. Your future career decisions will be much better informed by this real world experience.
We are big enough to have volume and small enough that as an intern you will have insight into all areas of our development.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with your engineering mentor pickup up work assignments. Create testable, high quality software with SLAs on throughput, storage, latency. Apply your academic knowledge to practical problems. Be curious to work on any and all areas of the system, everything is an opportunity to learn.

Key skills and experiences:
Passion to develop and learn how systems are built and deployed.  Openness to all areas of development and collaboration. Excited by team based collaborative development including peer review, unit test and test driven development. Experience with one of Python, Java, C++, C, Linux helpful Projects outside of school a big plus. Bring sample code! BS in CS, EE, Math or Physics in progress.

PCI @ Math Club!

Recruiters from Power Costs, Inc (PCI) iwill be talking this

Wednesday, November 14th in PHSC 1105 at 5pm.

PCI is a  Norman based company that offers asset optimization solutions for power generation and trading companies.  They are keen to hire people with a math background for internships and full time jobs.  They’ll give a career presentation to the Math Club where they talk about the sorts of things people do at PCI.

And, of course, there’ll be Pizza!

The Math Club’s Prodigal Son Returns!

Rees isn’t this blurry in real life.

Rees Dooley, an OU math graduate (2011) and former Math Club participant, will talk about his job as a software engineer for Demand Media. Demand Media is a digital media company looking to recruit mathematics majors.

We’re delighted to have Rees back to tell us how he went from math at OU to working at Demand Media.  Plus, Demand Media has open jobs and is looking for a few new Rees!

Rees will be talking in Math Club on

Wednesday, Noveber 7th at 5 pm in PHSC 1105.

The usual rule on Free Pizza! and beverages apply.

We won’t even hold it against Rees that he now lives in Austin .

Networking Event for OU Students!

Adrienne Jablonski is organizing a networking event for CAS students which will be on October 24th.  It’s a great opportunity to develop some of those key skills for life after OU!

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Are you looking for an internship or full-time job after graduation?

You’re invited to the College of Arts and Sciences Professional Networking Reception for A&S students.

Wednesday, October 24 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. (come and go)

Beaird Lounge, OMU

** This event is not a career fair, but be sure to dress professionally and bring your resume.

-Practice talking to employers in a non-pressured atmosphere

-Discover new career paths for your major

-Balance a small plate of food while networking

-Employers from these industries: non-profit, government, social services, business, financial services, medical research, retail management, marketing, internships, and more.

The College of Arts and Sciences will host a Professional Networking Reception for A&S students on Wednesday, October 24 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. at Beaird Lounge, OMU. This free event is a great opportunity for students who are looking for an internship or are graduating and job seeking to connect with employers who are hiring. Light refreshments will be served.

To RSVP, email Adrienne Jablonskior see http://cas.ou.edu/career-development.

Summer 2013 Opportunity!

Henry Neeman asked us to share this great summer opportunity (we know! summer 2013 is ages away, but now is the time to think about what you’ll be doing!)

Indiana U InCNTRE Summer of Network Internship Program 2013
May 20 – July 16 2013
Applications due Nov 30 2012

summer@incntre.iu.edu

http://incntre.iu.edu/summer

As you may know, IU conducts a 10 week intern program each summer.

Students receive instruction on topics ranging from OpenFlow to
the basics of switches and routers.

The students also experience being part of a development team and
are responsible for the implementation and operation of their
dorm room network.

The students leave the program knowing more about the nuts and
bolts of networking (e.g., during “router” week, we roll in a
Juniper T640 and take it apart), how to problem solve in a group,
and how large and small networks are managed.

They also leave the program excited about networking.

The program is only as good as the students.

Please help us make this coming program great by encouraging
students to apply.

Grateful if you can encourage a student to apply and pass this
along to others that can do the same.

Thanks,
Steven Wallace