After finishing all the usual IT job startup tasks I had a first look at one of my projects: documenting a business intelligence application developed by my german colleague Mateusz Gwara, who spent his work experience at Translink last year. After Mateusz left Translink the application has been refined continuously, but nobody really cared about documentation … we’ll see what I will make out of it!
And because of the fact that I don’t want to bore you with another picture of my desk I’ve put a shot of Belfast city with some beautiful landscape in the background. (This photo can also be seen on the corresponding article on the afib website.)
first I must say, that I am with Christian in the company named Anaeko. It is a company that make many software, e.g. Service-Level-Management software, but also mobile application and small games.
Now, the first days on work are completed and I think that I have a very friendly employer. On Tuesday, my first day at work, it was a very interesting day with a interesting instruction.
Before this, we had a interview with Kevin (our contact person in Belfast) and our supervisor. Of course comes Kevin to late to the interview, what else? 😀 We and Kevin agreed the important things with our supervisor.
it’s me… My first day at the no non-profit organisation „Volunteer Now“ was really interesting, because i am involved in two projects over the two months. One of them is the migration of Sharepoint server to a newer one with a new version of Sharepoint. The new design of this page will be created by me and the other project is a migration, too, but this will be the new version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Well, my workplacement is very nice and my colleagues are so friendly, the atmosphere is very friendly. I have so much freedom at my workplace, i like this, that’s what i need to develop.
Here are some pictures of my workplacement and belfast, too.
Volunteer Now...The entrance to Volunteer Now...Here you can see the main office...
After taking the Translink staff bus from Europa Buscentre at 8:45 (which I’ll probably do every morning I go to work for the next two months) I arrived at Translink’s office at Milewater Road in the northeast of Belfast near the shipyard the famous Titanic was built at.
Translink staff bus
Tue, 24th Apr 2012
After taking the Translink staff bus from Europa Buscentre at 8:45 (which I’ll probably do every morning I go to work for the next two months) I arrived at Translink’s office at Milewater Road in the northeast of Belfast near the shipyard the famous Titanic was built at.
Paul McGrattan, my supervisor here at Translink, gave me some information about the department I will work for: Information Services (IS). Probably this is the only IT department which does not have IT in its name. 😛 I learned about the department’s structure and general tasks, the core network infrastructure and some other general IT stuff. After being introduced to the colleagues (whose names I can’t remember, except for maybe three or four people) I was shown my desk:
My desk
Before getting a user account I had to read the User Acceptability Policy (UAP), which consists of rules and guidelines on how to use the IT infrastructure.
I also had several nice talks with my new colleagues. One thing that really fascinates me is that people in Northern Ireland are so friendly. Even when just asking someone for the way he notices you are not from here and shows interest in where you are from and what are you doing in Belfast (as René already posted). I can’t imagine experiencing something like this in Berlin.
