Today was my first day at SAS and I had a really great time shadowing multiple SAS managers and executives. When I arrived at the work site, I was greeted by Susan Tweed, who is the manager of applications and integrations. She spent the morning telling me about technology and her background, and gave me a general overview of the department and its different divisions. After meeting with her, I spent the rest of the morning shadowing Jason Reece and sitting in on different meetings. I was able to get an inside perspective on how meetings run and what it is like to collaborate on such a large scale. After lunch, I visited another building, building R, and was able to meet with three different IT employees, Johnathan Hairr (executive support), Jon Smith (client technology services), and Brian Wilson (IT security and compliance). Visiting with each was person was very interesting and insightful, but I particularly enjoyed shadowing with Johnathan Hairr because I was able to go up into the building with the offices of the executives and see Dr. Goodnight’s office! I was able to see both his conference room and his extremely impressive, extensive rock collection (pictured below). Overall, it was a great day and I already feel like I learned a lot from this experience. 
