1. The intern developed software using Visual Basic that allowed employees and managers to easily view an employee's training records and status, providing transparency. 2. He also provided remote cleanroom gowning training to new employees in Brisbane, Australia using WebEx, as they had failed contamination tests due to improper gowning technique. 3. The intern gained skills in Visual Basic programming, remote collaboration and presentation tools, and manipulating data in Excel.

1. Internship at Hyclone GE 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.