Technology Project Manager, Peregrin Services Corp.

>> My name is Samantha Mushik [phonetic], and I am the project manager and operations assistant at Peregrin Services Corporation, the place that I work. It's a technology company that specializes in automation services for mainly the credit counseling industry, but they are looking into getting into some other sectors of the banking industry. So days are really busy. As the project manager I'm literally involved in almost every single process of the organization. I make sure that our products not only are functioning as they should but also if they're not functioning coordinating getting them fixed, getting them functional, writing all the testing plans, actually performing all the testing. Or if it's an area that I'm not the expert in I'm responsible for making sure that there are resources available that would test that in my stead. So a busy day I'm one of the first people in the office. I like to sort of get in and have some quiet alone time so I can kind of get those administrative tasks complete. I'll get in around 6:45, 7-ish. First things first, I'll just catch up on any emails that I might have missed from the day before or any deliverables that I have coming up. Usually we'll go into our audit process. We have a lot of different company processes, procedural documents, how to update this database, how to update that interface, things like that. First and foremost I'll check the audit schedule and see if there are any processes that need to be updated, if that due date is coming up. If I've got the time to do it then or I have the skill set to do it then I'll do it right then and there since it's quiet. Otherwise I'll look into the project work and see what we have scheduled for that day, what resources I need, what meetings I need to set up, what meetings I have. Kind of do that for maybe an hour or two as people start trickling in. And then we start putting out fires. That's when it's kind of, you know, take things as they come. If we've got project meetings, of course, we're going to those and actually doing the development on the projects and building the interfaces, building the applications, doing that kind of just the nitty gritty work.