Green Hippo's Internship Program in Full Swing

	Bella Reid and Aleks Ivanov, Green Hippo

Recently, Green Hippo has been talking about several of their interns and their experiences. To add to this, the company has two new interns who recently started to work for the forthcoming year.

Over that last two years, Green Hippo has had two very successful product design internships within our product department, so continuing on the streak, the company has added a new intern, Bella Reid, also from Brunel University, just like her two predecessors.

Reid, 20 years of age and originally from Berkshire, is studying industrial design and technology at Brunel and has already completed the first two years of this tough degree. Her preferred subject are graphic design, 3D modeling and prototyping in the workshops, with metal being her favorite material to work with since she has spend many hours building drag bikes with her father.

Reid explains: "I chose this course because it encompasses everything I love and am passionate about into a technically-grounded and well-rounded set of skills from drawing, graphics, and practical work to programming, engineering, applied physics, and human studies. You become a jack-of-all-trades in some senses. And I decided on Green Hippo for a placement because of the family vibes. I felt I would actually be considered here instead of being forgotten in a massive company, or given remedial tasks. I thought I'd be valued as an intern for my work and so far that has proven correct."

Reid is spending two months in Green Hippo's marketing department putting her graphic design skills to the test before joining the product department and concentrating on product design and technology tasks.

The last couple of years have also seen consecutive interns within our R&D department and keeping with this tradition Aleks Ivanov has just joined the team as their latest intern. Originally from Bulgaria, Ivanov began formally studying computing at Newham College and City University after moving to London about four years ago. "From a very early age I was interested in science and computers. I started programming around the age of 13, after I stumbled upon a CD with Delphi 7 on it (which was the first programming language I learned). I was working on small personal projects and spent my time experimenting for several years."

Since then, his interest in programming has developed even more. He has been working on an increasing number of projects and explored different programming languages such as Java (both for Desktop and Android), C#, Python, Haskell, and others. During his studies he has completed modules in computer architecture, networking, programming (both functional and object-oriented), among others and he is getting to put all his skills to the test helping Green Hippo's busy team of developers.

On his reason for interning at Green Hippo Ivanov explains: "I chose Green Hippo because it's one of the leading companies in media servers, which relies on innovation to improve the industry and help its customers achieve great results. It also provides a great working environment with friendly colleagues and incredible people from various professional backgrounds."

Green Hippo is distributed in the US by TMB.

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