Colin Emerich

In the role of Financial Advisor Intern I have a variety of responsibilities and tasks. I participate in Advisor shadowing, where I observe and assist in the client meeting process with experienced advisors. We learn more about the business and the financial services profession through not only the advisors and hands-on experience but also technology, system, and product training. During the course of the internship I will study and then take the Delaware Life and Health along with the FINRA SIE exams in order to get specific licensing for future use. The main goal of the internship is to explore my own personal market and assist with an advisor seminar, specifically to get attendees from my market preferably with young kids to a college planning seminar ran by Diamond State. Finally, I will conduct my own case study of a potential client to our senior leaders at the end of the internship.

I have worked at this restaurant since it opened in October. Being moved up to Pit Master, I learned and took on more responsibilities. I have learned how to do everything around the store. From cutting and preparing meats to preparing the sides to cashier and maintaining utilities around the store. I have done caterings with hundreds of people and handled it calmly and collected. These including weddings and other formal events where the company and myself provide full service catering. I have learned the ins and outs of the business and under the owner of this franchise learned about sales projections and keeping your percentages for labor as low as possible while staying efficient. It has been a great learning experience for me in this business and financial side of the business, and I continue to learn more about the business and finances everyday.

After being camp counselor for three years, I was moved up to Head Camp Counselor. I have now held this position the last two summers. The past two years I had the same tasks from being a camp counselor such as helping the kids with equipment and teaching them the fundamentals of the game of hockey, in order to make them better players. But I also was tasked with helping these kids ages 4-15 become better people off the ice. I gained more responsibility, for example I was in charge of making the schedule for the week for our camp, and having to deal with changes in ice time and number of kids each week to ensure the each week ran smooth. Additionally, I make sure that the other counselors stay on track and kids stay out of all trouble. Being able to teach the youth in a sport that I love to play has been a great experience for me, and the amount of impact I have made is what I like the most about the position.

Our project was to design a functional full-scale handheld chariot for the college market to use as another form of transportation to class. I was part of a group of three people that created a chariot for our project in our statics class. The chariot had to be made out of PVC pipe, fasteners and rope. We completed ours and it was able to hold me. At the time, I was 190 pounds along with holding a member of our group who was a little heavier than me.

I was a part of a group that had to create an invention for the college community. My group and I decided to develop a prototype of a portable, rechargeable device that converts human energy to electrical energy that would enable students on the University of Delaware’s campus to charge a handheld electrical device. We created the entire project design and design report to go with it.

For my group the motivation for this project was to create an application that would make browsing the web safer, more efficient, and more enjoyable. The project scope is to create an application targeted at the removal of adware for smartphones in order to create a safer browsing environment for all phone users. Our final design is called the Ad Notifier, which scans the user’s smartphone for adware, removes said adware, and alerts users if they are about to enter a website that may contain adware, this was the prototype of our idea.