Intern Interview: Tomosuke Nakada | Temple University, Japan Campus

Student Intern Profile

Name: Tomosuke Nakada
Country: Thailand/Japan
Major: International Business Studies
Internship at: Texas Instruments
Duration: Fall 2013 and Summer 2014

Q1: Why did you choose to intern at Texas Instruments?

Q2: What are some of your projects/responsibilities at the internship?

Tomosuke: Last year, my main responsibility was to consolidate historical data and upload it into the global TI server, as well as tackle errors that occurred during the process. This was a time-consuming job as there were tons of data that I had to check for accuracy. In addition to this, I was given the task of training my co-worker in this process before my internship contract ended.

This term, my main responsibility is working on Special Price Request (SPR) that is sent daily to the pricing team from the distributors. There are a few processes that we have to go through before replying to the distributors. Another project I will be working on is the implantation of worldwide software that is expected to make the response time more efficient to the customer. I will be supporting the User Acceptance Testing, on whether the software is working as TI Japan specified.

Q3: What was the biggest challenge you faced during your internship and what did you do to overcome it?

Q4: Please tell us your future goals or your plans after graduation.

Q5: How do you envision your internship experience helping you in the future?

Q6: Would you recommend this internship to other TUJ students?

Tomosuke's Daily Schedule
Time	Activity
9:00	Arrive at work; check e-mail; check schedule updates
9:15	Start working on task (special price request from distributor)
11:45	Have lunch with the pricing team / younger TI'ers
12:30	Come back to office; enjoy some conversation with pricing team
13:00	Weekly meeting with pricing team (every Wednesday) If there is no meeting, work on special price request until 17:40
15:00	Work on task / support pricing member with time-consuming task
17:40	Leave work

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Interview with Tomosuke's Internship Sponsor

Things have been done the Japanese way, but we're a multinational company. To increase the level of communication, speaking in English is important, and that's where I believe having bilingual interns can help.

—Gavin Reid, Controller, Texas Instruments Japan

Interview with Tomosuke's Internship Sponsor

When we talk about projects, it's really about timing. It is fortunate that we had a project that we could get the internship student to be involved in both last year and this year. That's very exciting, but I think even without a project, we will be able to provide an experience that actually gets into the day-to-day work execution.

—Yuko Nuki, Manager, Marketing Pricing, Texas Instruments Japan