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- 1. Internship at HycloneGE Healthcare 2016 Logan, Utah Dax Martin Larsen Under/Graduate Student At Computer Science Dept., Utah State University Company Description Project 1 Project 2 Technologies Preparation GE Healthcare HyClone Cell Culture provides custom liquid products for Pharmaceutical and Research use. The liquids are produced as media and serum for a wide range of cell culture growth lines, and as high purity solutions in the form of buffers. HyClone originated in 1967 when Dr. Rex Spendlove, who was researching a fatal viral disease for children at Utah State University, forced his own methods to develop high quality serum because of the lack of availability at that time. This proved to be a high quality and profitable product that would pioneer the business into what it still does well today. http://www.drugdiscoveryonline.com/doc/hyclone-laboratories-inc-0001 • Microsoft Visual Basic for the development of the training reports. • GE Healthcare’s Training System Database in order to extract the data necessary to build training reports in VBA. • Cisco WebEx for online meetings, presentations, and video calls. • Microsoft PowerPoint for visual presentations. 1. MS Visual Basic was relatively simple to learn and program in most likely due to previously programming in C++ and C#. • Distributed Systems CS5200 (C#) • Intro to Software Engineering CS3450 (C#) • CS1, CS2, CS3 (C++) 2. Intro to Software Engineering CS3450 helped prepare me for working on teams. From this class I learned to develop software from a software design description and understand the requirements beforehand. I knew how to work as a team member by working together for common or separate objectives to meet milestone goals. 3. Took Excel classes at the Bridgerland Applied Technology College with the support of my manager. This helped me decide to use and develop software using excel tools and MS Visual Basic. Internship Objective I was approved to participate on the two described projects both for the benefit and improvement of the quality of training for both the Logan Utah and Brisbane Australia sites. This was accomplished by developing software that would provide transparency of training records amongst employees and managers at the Logan site, and by providing cleanroom gowning training for the Brisbane site. What did I Learn? My Role in the Team For the Logan site I consulted with various manufacturing employees and managers in order to understand what they would like to see on the training reports. For the Brisbane site, I provided training via Cisco WebEx technology being able to communicate and give presentation trainings over the internet. During my collaborative work experience, I was able to work on various other teams for Kaizen continuous improvement and Lean Manufacturing workshops. In each of these I was able to provide input, ideas, and questions to drive the different objectives. Problem: All employee training is kept within a training database. It is critical that each employee only performs tasks for which he/she has completed training in the database. On average, each employee completes training between 1 – 1.5 years until they are fully trained, and completes training for more than 100 documents/procedures. The massive amount of training records creates a lack of transparency for employees and managers to know the status of their training progress. --- BEFORE --- Description: Learning more about the training database system, I found I could export the training data from the database to an excel file. The project solution was to develop software that would search through all employee training records and display the data in a way for them to see what training they were current on vs. incomplete training. --- AFTER --- Software Development that captures and distributes training report updates to employees and managers With a newly organized and launched Serum production site, I along with other Serum Media team members, undertook the task to assist in the initial training for the new site employees and managers. We were able to act as consultants in providing training, orientation, and assistance for occurring and potential problems. Cleanroom gowning training provided for new Brisbane Australia site employees Note: The standard training report is 2 to 3 pages long Problem: Employees must participate in a validation production process in our cleanrooms and pass contamination testing before being authorized to continue standard production. The newly hired employees failed the validation process because of above limit contamination tests found on the cleanroom gowning clothing that the technicians must wear during production processes in the cleanrooms. Description: Two experienced members of our Logan site team traveled to the Brisbane site to provide training and support. They joined other experienced members from our New Zealand team in assisting the team in Australia. From our Logan site, I was able to provide Cleanroom Gowning training through some various presentations over the internet using Cisco Webex technology. Through the training we were able to successfully more fully educate our Brisbane site employees on the potential causes for contamination and the proper technique, behavior, and methods for cleanroom gowning. 1. The use of new technology for communication and presentation purposes (WebEx). 2. Programming in Microsoft Visual Basic language. 3. Communication and collaborative skills working with individuals I’ve never met before from the Brisbane Australia site. 4. Presentation skills during the presentation training for cleanroom gowning. 5. Manipulation and organizing of data within Microsoft Excel.