{"id":587,"date":"2010-08-09T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/2010\/08\/09\/9-august-2010\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T21:14:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T21:14:04","slug":"9-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/9-august-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a month since I’ve started working at IT Innovation, where as I mentioned in my last post, I got the job. It’s a lovely ride up there each day (weather-permitting). I have been assigned to the WeGov Project<\/a> as that is the one I expressed most interest in at my interview. In a nutshell, I get paid to use Facebook and Twitter. Of course, this is an overly-simplistic summary. My real work is in delving deep into social networking APIs and topic-opinion analysis. It’s still all good fun though. So far I have learnt how to use two new software packages and a new Software Engineering notation, Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)<\/a> .<\/p>\n

At the moment I’ve been looking into and how I might represent various use cases of the project using BPMN diagrams. My next goal will be to refine my current models and “translate” them into a workable PHP\/Java prototype to see them in action. I could use Business Process Execution Language<\/a> but this doesn’t tell you if your concepts will work, though it can be used to simulate the program work flow.<\/p>\n

My colleague (and friend) who sits next to me is doing much more hands-on work with mathematical modelling, Matlab and Java and who has on a few occasions consulted my help. I feel honoured that a post-graduate in Operational Research would ask me for advice! It goes to show that what I learn at ECS is valuable to others. The work environment at IT Innovation is quite relaxed and there is certainly a lot of trust in you for getting the work done on time for meetings. As one of my friends remarked, IT Innovation is a good place to work and I think based on my first month here, I do agree. My supervisor reports that I am making good progress, which I hope to keep up.<\/p>\n

Each day after work consists of sorting out more things on my big to-do list, cooking and gaming. Two nights a week consist of that as well as Jiu-Jitsu training. On the weekend, my girlfriend comes down or I go to Bristol to see her. Long distance doesn’t seem that bad. Bristol is only about two hours away anyway; it’s the perfect distance away as it’s close enough to go back home to visit occasionally but far enough so that I feel independent. I do like Bristol, it’s a nice city, but so is Southampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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