1. Internship Experience
Eli Lilly & Company By
Osedra Siler

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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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…

6. Summer Project Area worked Flashline tool Tasks/Responsibilities
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

7. 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

8. Skills Learned Soft Skills Technical 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

9. 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

10. 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. $$