My first month at ConocoPhillips has been great. On the first day, after the mandatory briefings, it was time to introduce myself to some of the individuals & teams that I’ll be working with during my co-op work term at ConocoPhillips.
So began the immense and intriguing task of understanding the role that IT plays in a big (massive) oil and gas company. As each day passes it becomes increasingly evident that technology is very crucial to the organization and in more ways than one. From that mouse that doesn’t seem to work today to the server that just failed; everything that IT does has a varied but direct impact on daily operations for the company.
There are four major work teams/groups in the current IT structure at ConocoPhillips Canada. I’ve been assigned to the ‘Desktop Support’ team to kick things off. It involves a lot of hardware competence, as well as logical and decision making skills. As is with most roles in an organization, it’s difficult to encompass all that I do in one paragraph, but it’s sure is something that I do enjoy doing. It can be seen as a good opportunity to learn from the very roots. I hope to go into some level of detail in the coming posts. That is all for this one folks. Cheers!
