Blog Entry #2

Date: July 28, 2010

Activities: Miscellaneous tasks to help the office

Technical Information: Scanner, Computer, Adobe Reader

Reflection: As said in the description I do any task that anyone in the office needs help with. My main task for the past 20 hours was scanning loan files into the computer. This was an important task because there are sometimes over 400 pages in these documents and the office cannot hold that many documents. Each page in a document is very important so it was imperative that I make sure every sheet in the file was scanned. Once I scanned a certain number of files into the computer I would go into each file and reduce the file size on each document to free up room on the server.

For now I am mainly working by myself with Ralph giving me most of my projects. Sometimes Maddy and Jennifer also have projects for me in the processing department though.

Blog Entry #1

Date: July 22, 2010

Activities: Completed office tasks and helped the company organize client information.

Technical Information: Computer with dual-monitor setup, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe Reader Pro.

Reflection: Prime Mortgage Lending, Inc. provides home loans to people looking for the best option in financing a home. The main loan programs are purchase, refinance, debt consolidation, home equity loans, second mortgages, and home improvement loans. The three main types of loans Prime Mortgage Lending, Inc. does are fixed loans (rates stay the same over the time period), FHA loans (Government Programs), and VA loans (military personnel).

The first thing I did when I arrived to work was to setup my workstation. It was pretty cool because this was the first time I setup or used a dual monitor configuration. Once I got my station set up I began organizing a spreadsheet of all the loans in the system. I also got to edit the company’s loan chart using Excel and Adobe Reader Pro. The main structure of the company is divided into loan officers and processors. The processors receive all the incoming loan applications and put the loan together while the loan officers serve as the intermediary between a client and bank.