First Week Recap!



FireAntz Office

 I really hit the ground running with this internship. During this past week I worked 12.5 hours, and made some progress on my major projects. Last Monday was my first day in the office, and before I really got started on my main tasks, I wanted to get a firm a grasp on what exactly I would be doing over the course of the internship. To make sure that we were on the same page, Assistant GM Dean Russell gave me the following objectives:

a.       Organize and lay out the 2011-2012 FireAntz annual publication.

b.      Work with the promotion director on corporate visits and ancillary sales.

c.       Work on actual game script with the director of game day operations.

d.      Work with ticketing director on learning the ticket master system, and using said system for printing and distributing season and group tickets.

e.       Work with game day operations to run the video board and to provide content to be run on the video board.

I was extremely happy with the objectives that Mr. Russell had set for me. In my opinion he was setting me up to gain experience in every department of the organization. I believe that after this experience, I will have a more defined idea of what I want to do after I graduate.

Ever since my first meeting both Mr. MacNaught and Mr. Russell made it clear that the focal point of my internship would be the annual publication. So not surprisingly, the first thing I did was get the ball rolling with the program. The first step in what will be a long process of putting the publication together, was to create a mock-up of the program. By that I mean we used blank white sheets of paper to replicate the size of the new program and mapped out where advertisements, players bio, etc, were going to go. Doing this allowed my supervisors to make sure that sponsorship contracts were fulfilled correctly.

It took me a couple days to finish putting the mock-up together. Once it was completed I was given three more peripheral tasks. One was to create a spreadsheet that listed all the companies that had purchased advertising space. The spreadsheet was used to make sure we had received all the artwork of all the companies. Also I had to research new and returning players and write short bio's about them for the program.

My goals for the next week are too have all of the new and existing artwork on file. Mr. Russell made it clear to me that he wanted all corporate artwork (from both new and existing partners) in one central location. I have gotten a start at compiling all of the files, and by the end of the week I should be done. Also I hope to get a head start on compiling sounds that I would like to play during games.

Overall it has been a great first week, and I cannot wait until I see me work come to fruition.