Internship ExperienceEli Lilly & Company

ByOsedra Siler

Agenda

Company History Benefits of Internship Summer Project Skills Learned Challenges encountered Overall experience

Company History Eli Lilly was founded in May 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly.

Headquarters located in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Eli Lilly is a leading, innovation-driven pharmaceutical corporation committed to developing a growing portfolio of best-in-class and first-in-class pharmaceutical products.

Corporate culture -Lilly employees are viewed as the company's most valuable assets.

Diversity is promoted by company and within

management

Benefits of Internship Paid 12 week summer Internship (May – August).

Majority of housing paid by company as a stipend & reimbursement on travel mileage to and from university or home.

Student has an opportunity to choose summer project (3 options).

Mentor is assigned to each intern.

Opportunity to interact with top executives ( CEO, IO, VP’s)

Benefits of Internship (cont…) Activities available and paid by company

Indy 500 Black Expo including concert Welcome Dinners with executives Many festivals and many more…

Summer Project Area worked

Global Manufacturing Information & Control Systems (MI&CS)

Flashline tool Asset Lifecycle Management Tool which helps to manage and track assets

portfolio.Assets are all software, technologies, servers and hardware used in company

Tasks/Responsibilities Gather business & system requirements to help reduce user resistance Design reports & the processes Analyze & recommend potential integration of the Delta Plan and Technology

Roadmap milestones

Summer Project (cont…) Business Needs

Individual sites maintain/track assets in various ways Centralized Point of Access Enhance the ability to manage the asset portfolio

Goal Wide-visibility representation of how applications integrate with business

components within Manufacturing Information & Control Systems

Skills Learned Soft Skills

Enhanced communication skills Enhanced team building skills

Technical Skills Manufacturing process & automation software used in process Enhanced functionality of eclipse using Java language Web services Enhanced requirements gathering technique Process definition Solution design

Challenges encountered Learning enhance functionality of eclipse

Learning a new protocol called SOAP with Web Services

Learning how to write code to retrieve and work with metadata stored in XML format

Overall experience I had the opportunity to express my ideas and implement them.

Demonstrate some initiatives and learn new software and techniques.

I was treated as a regular employee with great intelligence and best of all had lots of FUN and GOT PAID FOR IT. $$