My Caricature

Last week I worked on my caricature, which is a part of our STA Orientation activities.

I’m planning to explore adding some more details and brush strokes whenever I have time between my projects, so stay tuned for some updates (maybe)!

Hello again!

I’ve finished most of the onboarding procedures and have started getting into the groove of things now! Last week, I made a presentation slide explaining 5 things from the STA handbook:

I chose to go with quite a minimal and straight-to-the-point design for the slides because of the nature of the content. 🙂

I’ve also been working on setting up Adobe IDs to address the licensing issues on the MEZ lab computers, which is frankly something that I didn’t expect to be doing on my first week but it was a fun time!

Aside from that, Suloni assigned to me a small addition on the Hebrew course page that would essentially notify students that they needed Flash Player to run the tutorial modules. After getting all the necessary directory permissions and talking to Dean Raizen to figure out what exactly I needed to add, I added the small small change in:

Hello there!

This marks the beginning of my STA blog, which is where I’m hoping to keep track of the varying and interesting work I’ll be doing throughout my time here. A little bit about me: my name is Kevin Dao, I’m an upcoming junior majoring in Computer Science hopefully with a certificate in Design Strategies. So far today, I’ve been going through some basic onboarding, getting access to all the tools like Harvest and Basecamp, and meeting the other awesome STAs who I’ll be working with.

As I come from a more technical background (as a CS major), I’m hoping to familiarize myself with the more creative side of work, specifically the Adobe Creative Suite. I’m also hoping to get a breadth of experience working on many different projects and developing a wider skillset.

I’m quite excited to work with Suloni and the rest of the STA team, all who come from such different backgrounds with unique stories to tell. Overall, super pumped to see where this journey will go and what I’ll learn and contribute along the way there!

Hi,

Today is my first day as a STA as well as the STA Orientation day. These are the things that we’ve gone through so far.

Learned how to clock-in/out

Completed our I-9 paperwork

Introduced ourselves to the team (everyone is very nice and willing to help 🙂 )

Read out loud the STA Handbook and had any of our questions addressed

Had Basecamp, Workday, Slack, and Harvest set up

Updating our Basecamp avatar (mine’s a corgi)

Illustrate 5 points from the STA Handbook to a PowerPoint slides deck

Making this blog post

Things that I will be working on after completing this blog post.

Design my STA blog banner

Go through some STA basic training

I’ve been wanting to get more hands-on on design, so I’m super excited to see how I can grow as an STA. In addition, I’m certain that with the help from the wonderful and friendly STA team (which each of them having a unique set of skills and assets), I will be able to learn tremendously (technically and as a person 🙂 ). I’m sure there will be obstacles and times that I will be frustrated over projects or my abilities, but in the end they’ll all be challenges to extend my capacity.

I wanted to give a big thank you to Suloni and the Design STA team for giving me a wonderful introductory experience so far!

Thank you for reading and please follow my STA journey through this blog if you’d like :). Cheers!