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Information Technology Consultancy

BUSI4995U
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Ontario Tech University
Ontario Tech University
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
AG
Amanda Gaudet
Associate Teaching Professor
(12)
5
Timeline
  • September 11, 2020
    Experience start
  • December 6, 2020
    Experience end
General
  • Undergraduate; 4th year, Other
  • 20 Students; teams of 4
  • 20 hours per Student
  • Dates set by experience
  • Students self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 4 projects wanted
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
  • Any
  • Any industries
Categories
Information technology
Skills
communication it design it evaluation user requirements team work
Project timeline
  • September 11, 2020
    Experience start
  • December 6, 2020
    Experience end
Overview
Student goals and capabilities

What IT system improvements, new technologies, or evaluation projects can you implement to help you achieve your business goals? Our IT students have skills in using leading-edge equipment and laboratories to apply core concepts in fundamental and advanced networking, enterprise-level network engineering, cloud computing, programming, scripting, databases, cryptography, policies, malware analysis, forensics and many additional technical topics.

Expected outcomes and deliverables

All industry partners will receive:

  • Project Plan (including the Statement of Work & Description of Deliverables)
  • Presentation of Solution or Recommendations (webinar format)
  • Final Project Report including an Executive Summary

Additional deliverables:

Other deliverables for this project, which may be specific to the your organization, will be determined during an initial conversation between your organization and the faculty coordinator Deliverables will be finalized during the initial meeting with the student-consultant team.

Project Examples

Beginning in September, IT student teams of 3-5 will spend up to 300 cumulative hours working with your organization to develop recommendations to assist you in achieving your organizational IT objectives.

Projects examples include, but are not limited to:

  • Data Analytics- Developing reports, data integration plans, or ETL processes.

  • Data Management- Developing a data security and protection policy, reviewing data architecture, and recommending improved management practices.

  • General Information Technology- Identifying and evaluating new software applications and technologies to meet user and organization needs, or developing prototypes of custom software and systems.

  • Health Information Technology- Identifying and evaluating new software applications and/or technologies to meet needs in the healthcare industry.

  • Information Assurance & Security- Conducting an IT security review, security planning, or developing a security policy.

  • Networking (CISCO or Microsoft Technologies)- Reviewing existing infrastructure for possible improvement or evaluating of new technologies.

  • Project Management- Developing an implementation plan for a new technology, process, department, or organizational change.

  • System Development (Desktop, Mobile or Web-Based Applications)- Evaluating existing applications to recommend improvements or designing and prototyping a new application.
Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Minimum of 5 interactions with the students remotely, or in-person if feasible (approximate minimum of 4-6 hours over the duration of the project).

Be available to schedule and attend a meeting for kick off and charter prior to Sept 1st 2020

Provide a dedicated contact to answer periodic emails or take phone calls to address student's questions and provide timely response.

Be available to schedule and attend a final webinar presentation of project results in December

Commit to fill out 2 interim evaluations over the semester and 1 final evaulation.