Today I got to spend some time with Barb Whittinghill and her intern, Andrew, who worked in Compliance. They walked me through the intricacies of compliance. Basically, their job is to ensure that every client that SAS has abides by federal regulations, that way, their servers would be more secure from outside threats. Andrew, who previously worked for the military, discussed with me the process through SAS workers petitioning compliance for outside help (vendors). Compliance then checks the certifications of said help to make sure they are up to date, and gives approval based on their findings. Next, I had a meeting with Steven Toy, head of the infrastructure side of IT and the father of CA’s own Chris Toy. Mr. Toy walked me through SAS’s goals of transferring data into virtual servers, a project that would lend itself both to efficiency and security.
At lunch, I was able to have beef tips with Mr. Andy Rash, who was responsible for the more applications side of IT. This means that instead of maintaining servers and making sure the foundations of SAS remain up to date, Mr. Rash oversees a lot more of what workers operate on a day to day basis; the checkout system for lunch for example. I was then placed with Peter McNeill, one of the many Cary Academy graduates working at SAS. Peter showed me a lot of the script he was writing for some new software SAS was putting out, as well as how he was participating in intern training by having them review some of his old code for practice.
Lastly, I went to E building with Taylor Andrews, a software engineer currently working with Ms Dawn Smith (who I met with on Day 2) to create a new application for client agreements. He took me through a lot of the coding that went behind building the application, such as SAS software and the conversion of Java into JavaScript. Ultimately, it was a great way to end my time in IT!
~Rundown of the Supply Depot