The document summarizes an internship at The Disruptive Weather Company, which is located in North Andover, Massachusetts and owned by the same parent company as NBC and Comcast. The intern worked in systems quality assurance (SQA) testing of weather graphics and forecasting software, including the TruVu Max product. Typical duties involved downloading new versions of software, testing for bugs and issues, reporting problems to engineers, and verifying fixes. It was an unpaid summer internship that provided valuable real-world experience in applying classroom knowledge to an operational weather company environment.

2.  “The Disruptive
Weather Company”
 Owned by same
Corp. that runs
NBC/Comcast
 Located in N.
Andover, Ma
 Private industry

3. Forecasts for
Aviation
Energy
Any number of specialized clients
Media Products
TV Weather graphics
TruVu Titan and Max

4. Stumbled upon this internship through a NESC
conversation with a LSC Alumni
Started a week after school ended, finished in
August
Worked with SQA testing
Unpaid Internship

5. 5 testers plus me in the SQA Super Cubical!
Varying backgrounds and degrees
Worked closely with the Systems Engineers and
Designers who create/build the product
Testing out WSI Media Products
Specifically TruVu Max versions 2.0+
Each day new versions come out, and the new
fixes/products need to be tested
Are they fixed?
What new broke?
What can be Improved?

6. Daily routine
come in, load in new version, break things, 10am
team meeting, bust things, eat lunch, break
more things, go home
Basic order of how things are made/tested/fixed
Engineers code in new feature that goes into
new version that I download and test
Test it = break it, bend it, try it with other features,
If I break it  goes back to engineers to be fixed
-sometimes led to fairly…heated debates
If I can’t break it  move on to the next feature

7. Anything that involves Computers…..
8hr work day, with job responsibilities and
deadlines
Working in a field of Wx related to but not
specifically what I already know/do
In the end, its not all about what you learn out of a
book or class, but how you apply it and use it in
the real world

9.  You never know when things will turn up
 If anything, take a chance to learn
something new