Virtual Internship Opportunity: Computer Science

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 5+ computer science students or 1-2 teams. About Headlamp, Inc. Our vision is to ensure all veterans, especially our junior enlisted and younger non-commissioned officers, achieve their optimum career outcomes after serving. The product we are building is a veteran community for career and transition . We serve veterans through a multi-tenant community platform paid for by our customers, who are veteran-facing organizations like not-for-profit veteran service organizations (VSO’s) and employers’ veteran hiring initiatives. On our platform, these organizations can engage more effectively with their veterans, scale operations, and, by joining a larger “community of communities", reach more veterans. We think creating a “market network” linking existing services is a better environment for veterans, employers, and VSO’s to find each other and to generate the best outcomes. For veterans , we provide “career information sharing” as they navigate the communities. Veterans working with our customers will get pooled data (data we collect from them and from our customers), access to market data (like labour market data from Emsi), and a social network for transition, where they can crowdsource information and find the right resources to figure out their best paths. Opportunity Get in on the ground floor with a great team with an even greater mission! Gain valuable experience working with an accomplished Silicon Valley senior engineering manager (see Marc LeBrun ) in the development process from Alpha to MVP! Possibility to grow internship into a full time position. Students will have the opportunity to participate in requirements development and refinement. We are organizing to do sprints and to deliver iterations to our client. The primary focus for the students will be: to deliver an MVP website IAW our strawman architecture (see attached). We would like a new website for our organization. We are currently working on Azure and utilizing Webflow tools. However, students will have some flexibility to introduce other specific tools and technologies. Students should be prepared to: Conduct a needs analysis to determine which platform is most suitable. Create a design proposal including mock-ups, budget, and timeline. Build a fully-functioning website. Provide training on updating and maintaining the site. Our primary goal at the end of this experience is: Website Development - For the student(s) to complete a fully functioning MVP website. Other projects could include: Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application. Software Evaluation (e.g. new CRM) - Conducting a needs analysis; researching available options; evaluating the options within the context of our organization's budget, immediate needs, and projected needs. Open Source Software Management - Researching potential open source tools for our organization’s use; contributing to open source projects through bug fixing or feature implementation. Database Analysis - Decreasing query execution time; Changing ORM code in hotspots to more efficient SQL. Working web site with signup and profiles. Contact steve@myheadlamp.com . We will plan to communicate with our virtual interns using these communication tools: Asana, Figma, Slack, Email, Zoom, phone and other development collaboration tools. Student's primary contact : Marc LeBrun, VP of Tech (Interim) Secondary contact: Steve Chang, CEO | Co-Founder

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Social Media Marketing

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 1 marketing student. The primary focus for the student will be:  Strategic Social Media Marketing  - Conduct an audit of our current social media presence and/or other current communication channel(s); develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts. SEO Strategy & Recommendations  - Develop and implement an SEO strategy; provide content suggestions and recommendations to increase search visibility; increase our inbound traffic and optimize the customer journey; increase inbound leads. Prospecting Strategy  - Evaluate our current customer base and make recommendations for further market penetration; assess our current outreach process and develop and implement targeted prospecting; review our prospect messaging, make improvement recommendations, and create new outreach content. Branding  - Conduct a full competitive landscape assessment; define our organization's brand and core value proposition; identify opportunities and threats facing our brand; assess where and how to improve our brand's presence and differentiate from our competitors. Market Research  - Investigate our competitive landscape; perform market segmentation to identify the ideal target market for new service; conduct customer surveys or focus groups to gain insights into the perceptions and behaviours of our target customers; identify expansion opportunities; identify key messaging for a new service. Public Relations  - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories. Our goal at the end of this experience is:   Strategic Social Media Marketing - For the student(s) to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling content. SEO Strategy & Recommendations - For the student(s) to help us generate more traffic and revenue through search engines. Prospecting Strategy - For the student(s) to help us implement better prospecting that increases conversion rates and boost our sales team's performance. Branding and Marketing Communications - For the student(s) to help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share. Market Research - For the student(s) to help us gain a better understanding of our target market and ensure we are optimally positioned and our product and pricing aligns with our target sector/customer. Public Relations - For the student(s) to help us effectively communicate our brand's story and mission to a broad audience. Other duties the student may complete could include : Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns as needed; measure and report on performance of these campaigns using tools such as Mailchimp. Content development, including social posts, blog posts, LinkedIn articles, and website copy. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools:  Zoom Video, Slack, Phone, Email Student's primary contact : Steve Chang, CEO Secondary contact:  Nunzi Sapuppo, COO

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Website Development

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 1-2 students. Headlamp Inc.: Paid software development project or internship with potential for follow on work. Project description: Headlamp needs a full stack developer to bring our MVP to market. We are a career information sharing website for US military veterans. We provide users (veterans) with a community forum and access to data about their career transition. We are a bootstrapped startup incubated out of Wharton. Our founding team includes a former Army Special Forces Officer and startup veterans from the Boston area. Goal: We are looking to launch the MVP before the end of June. Skills and Qualifications : Experience with Javascript, TypeScript, NoSQL preferred, ASP.net, React and Azure . (*Some work has been done and is available for use. Using existing material should help keep the project within our projected time scope.) Candidates should have strong CS foundations, especially in data structures and algorithms. Strong foundations in database fundamentals (relational and non-relational). Strong eye for design and UX patterns. Recent graduates of a 4yr program or graduate students in a program studying computer science or a related field are encouraged to apply. Will consider students currently in an undergraduate program. Project Scope: We estimate 150-200 hours of work over three phases of development. UI/UX wireframe is completed and available on FIGMA. Phase I (20% of total work): Landing Page/ 2 Factor Authentication for new users. Phase II (25% of total work): User profile capture, user profile display pages and user profile page catalogue and search function. Phase III (55% of total work): User Homepage with community forum (chat-like) capability with commenting, notifications, follow users, and tags. Compensation : Total project fee is negotiable. Compensation tied to completion of each phase. I.e. Upon completion of Phase I, payment is 20% of the total agreed upon fee, with a 5% early completion bonus. Project start date: ASAP Location: Remote. HQ is in Boston (Eastern Time Zone preferred). Contact steve@myheadlamp.com . We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Slack, Email, Phone and other development collaboration tools. Student's primary contact : Steve Chang, CEO Secondary contact: Nunzi Sapuppo, COO

Virtual Internship Opportunity: Computer Science Capstone

Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 5+ computer science students or 1-2 teams. About Headlamp, Inc. Our vision is to ensure all veterans, especially our junior enlisted and younger non-commissioned officers, achieve their optimum career outcomes after serving. The product we are building is a veteran community for career and transition . We serve veterans through a multi-tenant community platform paid for by our customers, who are veteran-facing organizations like not-for-profit veteran service organizations (VSO’s) and employers’ veteran hiring initiatives. On our platform, these organizations can engage more effectively with their veterans, scale operations, and, by joining a larger “community of communities", reach more veterans. We think creating a “market network” linking existing services is a better environment for veterans, employers, and VSO’s to find each other and to generate the best outcomes. For veterans , we provide “career information sharing” as they navigate the communities. Veterans working with our customers will get pooled data (data we collect from them and from our customers), access to market data (like labour market data from Emsi), and a social network for transition, where they can crowdsource information and find the right resources to figure out their best paths. Opportunity Get in on the ground floor with a great team with an even greater mission! Gain valuable experience working with an accomplished Silicon Valley senior engineering manager (see Marc LeBrun ) in the development process from Alpha to MVP! Possibility to grow internship into a full time position. Students will have the opportunity to participate in requirements development and refinement. We are organizing to do sprints and to deliver iterations to our client. The primary focus for the students will be: to contribute to one or more of four modules described in our product description (see attached). Final focus will be based on the capabilities of the students and on discussion with the students and professor. We are currently working on Azure. However, students will have some flexibility to introduce other specific tools and technologies. Our primary goal at the end of this experience is: Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application. Other projects could include: Software Architecture Development - Architecting the software of a new product; improving the architecture of an existing system; porting an architecture of one system into another . Software Evaluation (e.g. new CRM) - Conducting a needs analysis; researching available options; evaluating the options within the context of our organization's budget, immediate needs, and projected needs. Application Programming Interfaces - Redesigning an existing API to simplify it; changing API technologies; designing a new API; creating or updating public-facing documentation. Machine Learning Software Solution - Creating a recommendation engine; spotting trends in existing data; spotting anomalies in data sets. Real-Time Data Visualization - Creating a charting system with basic querying functionality; creating a dashboard to visualize key performance metrics of our organization or tool. Database Analysis - Decreasing query execution time; Changing ORM code in hotspots to more efficient SQL. Contact steve@myheadlamp.com . We will plan to communicate with our virtual interns using these communication tools: Asana, Figma, Slack, Email, Zoom, phone and other development collaboration tools. Student's primary contact : Marc LeBrun, VP of Tech (Interim) Secondary contact: Steve Chang, CEO | Co-Founder