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Post It Notes are still important part of software development
First of all, I am really happy that I was selected to the Giant Leap Internship program. I will spend my summer here in the Helsinki office and I will be work in the Software Development unit in the Weather Business Area. I started working in the beginning of May, while most of the other Giant Leapers will join Vaisala in the end of May or beginning of June.
My background seems to be quite different compared to what most of the other people in Vaisala have. I’m currently studying fourth year at the University of Helsinki. As a Major I have been studying Geography and Geoinformatics (GIS). As a minor subjects I have studied e.g. computer science and environmental studies. Actually one of my new colleges mentioned that I’m most likely the first geographer in the Vaisala’s Helsinki office.
As one might guess, my Giant Leap project is related to the Geographic Information Systems (Also known as GIS). The plan of my project is to design and build a working & highly automated GIS process, which will handle few basic operations. For me, the project sounds really interesting and it is very inspiring to know that Vaisala will actually use the system I will be developing. My project is also almost perfectly in line with the studies I have been doing at the University.
So, how is my typical day in Vaisala? Well, the most constant thing of my normal day is the daily meeting with my project supervisor. My project supervisor is located in the Birmingham office in the UK, so we “meet” online. We’ll have a short call every morning and we’ll discuss what I achieved yesterday and what I will do today. These first two weeks have gone really fast and I have already learned a lot! First few days were mainly about getting known to the area, people, systems and software used in Vaisala. Now during the second week I have been mainly planning my project and learning some important aspects of the tools I’m going to need.
Overall, I’m very pleased that I can spend my summer here in Vaisala and I’m really excited about my Giant Leap project. During the first two weeks I have already met wonderful and really inspiring new people. I’m also very excited to meet the other Giant Leapers!
Jesse Hietanen
Giant Leap 2015