{"id":418,"date":"2026-01-22T16:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/?page_id=418"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:57:50","slug":"experience-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/experience-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominion Energy Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Procurement Engineer(year-round)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June 2024 &#8211; present <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36181\/2026\/02\/de.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-480\" style=\"width:514px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36181\/2026\/02\/de.jpg 330w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36181\/2026\/02\/de-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>During my time at Dominion Energy, I&#8217;m working as a procurement engineer performing procurement activities including evaluation, research, and analysis of procurement requirements of materials and services. I also worked with company data to create dashboards using Power BI to provide visual representations of what groups within the company needs to focus on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This experience has taught me so much and helped me gain and better the necessary skills to fully understand what it takes to become a procurement engineer like communication, collaboration, and taking accountability and responsibility for my work. Toughest challenge of this experience was learning something I&#8217;ve never learned before which was engineering, but fast forward to now, I&#8217;ve learned so much about engineering because of my peers and not only that but It has allowed me to have a very diverse career now that I have engineering, cybersecurity, and computer science under my belt, this allows me to have more opportunities for different types of work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procurement Engineer(year-round) June 2024 &#8211; present During my time at Dominion Energy, I&#8217;m working as a procurement engineer performing procurement activities including evaluation, research, and analysis of procurement requirements of materials and services. I also worked with company data to&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/experience-2\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28140,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/418\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/kevonlmerritte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}