I spent 2 tenures in IBM during the year 2007. The first one was the internship tenure of four and a half months. It was a great experience to start my career at IBM. We were six interns who worked during this period. The problem that we were asked to solve was to find a way to host the eclipse on the server and provide a browser interface to access it. We got a very good exposure to various technologies that were emerging. Initially we did not have any idea about how to solve the problem that was given to us but we gave the name Eclifox (Eclipse on the firefox) to the project. We had no clue how to put the first step but we were quite fortunate that we had great mentors at IBM who really guided us in approaching the problem. We then slowly started to make some experiments. We got some breakthroughs and finally we succeeded in building a prototype to prove that the problem can be solved. We got some great feedbacks from managers and even criticisms but no one expected that interns' project will make so much voice in IBM. Finally our project got into alphaworks. Here is the link to our project. As per today's status it has been downloaded 609 times!
In the second half of the year, I worked as regular employee at IBM. The Internship really helped me in making my life comfortable at IBM. Currently I am project zero committer. I along with my colleague got 2nd place in hackday which is an event that takes place in IBM to encourage the employees to show their talent in various areas. I participated in another contest called Coderfest'07 which is again a programming contest internal to IBM and our team got qualified to quarterfinals which is going to start from 7th jan of this year. Among 1800 and odd participants 37 teams are qualified for quarterfinals. I took part in one of the voluntary projects which had an aim to help the freshers who join IBM and we ended up in building a nice portal which had all the necessary information for the freshers and got some very good appreciation form our directors.
To conclude, 2007 was a good year in my career at IBM. I hope I will do even better in 2008 and will strive hard to achieve that.
In the second half of the year, I worked as regular employee at IBM. The Internship really helped me in making my life comfortable at IBM. Currently I am project zero committer. I along with my colleague got 2nd place in hackday which is an event that takes place in IBM to encourage the employees to show their talent in various areas. I participated in another contest called Coderfest'07 which is again a programming contest internal to IBM and our team got qualified to quarterfinals which is going to start from 7th jan of this year. Among 1800 and odd participants 37 teams are qualified for quarterfinals. I took part in one of the voluntary projects which had an aim to help the freshers who join IBM and we ended up in building a nice portal which had all the necessary information for the freshers and got some very good appreciation form our directors.
To conclude, 2007 was a good year in my career at IBM. I hope I will do even better in 2008 and will strive hard to achieve that.
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