Taming complex data streams from sensors, real-time dashboards, and cutting-edge site technology gave Florida Polytechnic University student Tyler Mondalto a front-row view of how his computer science education can drive meaningful industry innovation.
The rising senior recently completed a data engineering internship at the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company in Orlando, Florida. As part of the company’s labs group, he worked to ensure the most effective solutions reached construction teams throughout Whiting-Turner’s massive operations.
“The labs group works on creating or finding technology that would be helpful on site. It could be innovative, something new, or just something that makes solving a problem a little easier,” said Mondalto, a graduate of Horizon High School in Winter Garden, Florida.
One of the main projects he contributed to is a time and attendance tool developed in partnership with construction technology company Sitemetric. The system uses badge scans to automatically track when employees enter and exit job sites. The upgrade replaces traditional methods and streamlines a vital process at the construction company, which ranks among the country’s largest.
In another large project for the internship, the computer science major worked with large amounts of data from sensors that track important construction site environmental factors like humidity, temperature and air quality.
“We use Power BI, a data visualization software, for a lot of dashboards to translate information from the database into something helpful for the construction people on site,” he said. “It’s our job to make their job easier.”
Mondalto first connected with Whiting-Turner at a Florida Poly career fair where he impressed company representative and Florida Poly alumnus Frank Calas ’18, who also supervised him during the internship.
The experience has been phenomenal, Mondalto said – both professionally and personally.
“The people on the team have been amazing, taking the time to make sure I’m learning and doing the work I’d like to do,” he said. “I’m excited about the project management side of things and I’m getting to see how they handle the pipeline of making these projects happen and how they work together to do it.”
With a tight-knit office culture, Mondalto became friendly with coworkers and joined fun social events like game nights.
With the internship now complete, he is excited to apply his real-world experiences to his long-term goals – possibly in artificial intelligence and project management. He is eager to continue building solutions that help others do their best work.
“I would really like to create tools that help people make their job easier, which ties directly into what I’ve gotten to do at Whiting-Turner,” Mondalto said.
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