During my internship, I got to work on infographics, website graphics, social media posts, and other promotional material. My main project was establishing a brand and identity for the company's culturE values. Over the summer, I made logos and icons to represent each culture value. I established a gallery of images used alongside each value as well as a brand standard guide to communicating consistency even after my internship concluded. Below you can see my work featured on the Valero Careers website.
Valero Culture Value Brand + Identity
Social Media Recruitment Graphic
My Daily Journal
6/05: Today I learned how to work and manage overlook. As well as learned about Valero's company values and expectations.
6/06: today I gained an understanding of the various teams and departments and how they collaborate together.
6/07: Today I got set up with my first project: Library content for July/August. I started the process I've been learning about.
6/08: Today I had my first intake meeting with a client. I have experience communicating and collaborating with clients.
6/09: Today I started on my first deliverable and learned the company process for saving files and organizing content.
6/12: Today I continued to work on the college logo banner for intern symposium.
6/13: Today I was on my own working on projects. Learning a lot about project management.
6/14: Today I attended a coffee talk to help me lead more effective meetings. I also reflected on my project progress and communicated that to my supervisor.
6/15: Today I shared my work with my team and received feedback.
6/16: Today I continued working on concepts for the roadmap.
6/19: Today I experienced last-minute crisis management for a misprinted project.
6/20-21: These past few days were intern symposium, a conference that Valero puts on for their intern class. It includes classes, speeches from executives, and one-on-one meals with VPs.
6/22: Today I caught up on projects after symposium. I have two deadline meetings next Tuesday.
6/26: Today I brainstormed with others to bring another point of view to my design and help them progress more.
6/27: Today I realigned and reviewed my projects with my mentor and redirected my development.
6/28: Today I felt like i started to see my designs really come to life. little design elements brought them along the way.
6/29: Today I had my first review meeting with a client.
6/30: Today i had my Valero Culture review meeting. learned how to ask questions to questions to really understand client requests.
7/3: Today was a quiet day in the office. Started on my projects that were on the back burner due to last week's priority project reviews.
7/5: I feel more comfortable with my emailing ability and meeting direction.
7/6: Today i continued to make progress on my various projects. Getting a lot of experience in project management.
7/7: Had an intake meeting for a new project: Social Media design catalog.
7/10: Today I made final steps towards closing two of my projects: Valero Library July/August and SD common logos adobe cc library and parent page.
7/11: Today I had a check-in with my supervisor and started my End of Summer internship presentation.
7/12: Today I continued the development of my projects and final presentation.
7/13: Today I met with Tanya to learn how to ask good questions.
7/14: Today I continued developing and meet with department supervisor to review project's progress.
7/17: Today I helped prepare for a live stream tomorrow over Financial Wellness.
7/18: Today i helped with a live stream and lead a working meeting with my team on using adobe cc libraries.
7/19: Today I got to shadow a photoshoot for our communication team.
7/20: Today i had a project completely shift directions 3 days from the anticipated close out. New design has a turnover of one day to make sure the deadline is still met.
7/21: Today my valero culture project was blessed by julia, HR . Now we move forward with implementation.
7/24: Today I continued closing out projects and working on my presentation.
7/25: Today i continued making final edits to my projects. hoping to close them all out by Friday.
7/26: Continued working on valero culture implementation and final presentation.
7/27: Today I finished working to close out my projects.
7/28: Today i closed the social media catalog and outlined what's left with the Valero culture.
7/31: Today i did 3 dry runs of my presentation and continued prepping for that.
8/1: Today I did dry runs with Joey and the other HQ HR interns in prep for the final presentation tomorrow.
8/2: Today I gave my final presentation to HR leadership. It was very exciting to show off my work to the higher-ups. I am genuinely so proud of 1) how my presentation went and 2) all i have accomplished this summer.
8/3: Today i continued making progress to close projects and began outlining what still needs to be done for projects I'm passing off.
8/4: Today I continued updating the posters and handouts with the posters and handouts with the new Valero culture logos. I also organized them on the compboard for the POD catalog.
8/7: Last Monday in the office. Today i continued preparing projects for close out.
8/8: Today i worked on the print-on-demand catalog. I'm curious to see how they actually implement the logos I created.
8/9: Today I prepped for my valero culture close-out presentation. I also uploaded the files for the POd catalog.
8/10: Today i had my valero culture close-out meeting. We highlighted the deliverables of the project and discussed success and challenges. We also summarized the project hours and reviewed the timeline.
8/11: Last day!! Today I just reflected on my internship and cleaned out my desk :(
