Shadin Risha's Portfolio

I have attended several workshops and meet and greet throughout my time in the navy yard and I had an amazing opportunity to meet more than 15 company’s CEO and build a genuinely friendly relationship with them. One of the events was about leadership building.I didn’t have to attend there but since I am very interested in building skills and quality as a leader I attended that event. There were several other CEOs of different startup companies that were attending there. We took a survey where we answered questions about how we react to situations and cases as a leader and based on that survey we got a result that showed what type of leader we are, what are our weakness and how we can improve our skills in the places we lack. it was an amazing experience for me to go through.

My internship hours has come to end and I have received a very well evaluation from my supervisors. Even though it came to an end it was a paid internship. I was getting paid through another city tech program but now Brooklyn navy yard has hired me as their own interns. I genuinely love working there. The environment is amazing and very comfortable. Everything is very fast paced moving and it’s good for me because I like working fast in being on top of my toes. I work on designing posters for the most part but there are a lot of different other tasks for me to do.

My workplace is a very fast moving environment. Everyone is running with the wind and working on things they are supposed to take care of to keep the big wheel moving. Everyone is a small part of a big engine but every single part of the machine is very significant and everyone is aware of that. I think we all are here because we care about making the world a better place to some extent so we chose to work at a nonprofit organization.  We are told to wear formal attire, which means anything except jeans and sweatpants but everyone at the work seems to dress up and in fact, they like dressing up. Everyone has their own workspace but it’s bigger and open to being called a cubicle. They are designed in a way so the coworkers can communicate with each other. We recently moved to a new building which provides a lot of open spaces and beautiful view from our working space. I normally go to work around 12:30 pm and work till 2:00 pm and then take a 30 min lunch break and then continue with my work till 6:30 pm.

I started this internship in October 2018 and my supervisors were very friendly and helpful. They explained everything I needed to do when I was there and always was open for me to ask questions if I was ever confused about anything. My supervisor, Michael Pellegrino, recently left so now I am working with my other coworkers. My current supervisors are Katie Beck Sutler, T. Anifalaje, and Chantell Campbell.  In my second month of being there, I was assigned to recreate a 96-page presentation in powerpoint. I didn’t even know how to use powerpoint and I taught myself and recently finished working on that document which I am very proud of. I had a group interview with other interns who were selected to work at Brooklyn navy yard. I got this internship through a program called service corps. After the interview, I asked Katie, who use to run the internship program, if I can work in a department that would allow me to work with the design aspect of the department. She reviewed my portfolio and places me in external affairs. I had a several group interviews with the service corps to be selected and but after I was selected, I only had to interview with the navy yard once.