Chase Farrar Interned at Pactera Technology for Microsoft

Chase Farrar is a senior in Computer Science at Montana Tech. He was an intern at Pactera Technology Ltd working on a team at Microsoft during the Summer of 2021. He worked remotely from home due to Microsoft’s campus being closed because of the pandemic. Pactera is one of the world’s top 5 RDS service providers. They are an IT consulting and outsourcing company.

He was given the opportunity to join an Office 365 Security and Compliance team. The project he was tasked with working on was a project to detect email spoofing when new emails were registered and alert the original domain owner. This project required him to employ memory and resource management techniques as the algorithm that compared emails ran billions of times every day. He was also given an opportunity to work on the front end of the project and add the project to existing code. Unfortunately, the Fall semester began before the project could be completed but was completed shortly after.  The team at Microsoft was very helpful and made the interns feel comfortable despite the difficult projects they were tasked with. Overall, Chase gained an immense amount of experience and confidence over the 12 weeks at Pactera and Microsoft