Entries in UK (3)

Wednesday
27Jan2010

Rotation Spotlight: Smart Grid

DateWednesday, January 27, 2010 at 6:00AM

Juan, 3rd Rotation IMLPOne of our Energy IMLPs, Juan, worked with the Transmission & Distribution IT team to design and provision the hardware, network, and software to support the first European Smart Grid Demo Lab, a fully featured demonstration room that shows the GE Smart Grid product portfolio. The lab was launched at the end of November 2009.

To enable this demo lab, Juan and the IT team designed a dedicated product network environment that hosts the whole demo. This network interconnects over 20 PC clients, 2 virtualized servers, a virtual center server (for centralized administration) and a shared clustered storage area of 3 Terabytes that is accessed by all the devices present in the room. Remote access is also available so all the teams involved can access and configure their clients and virtual servers remotely.

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AuthorRandy Askin | Comment1 Comment
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Wednesday
14Oct2009

IMLP in the UK

DateWednesday, October 14, 2009 at 1:00PM

Welcome to the first in a soon-to-be regular weekly series of posts from the IMLPs in the UK.  There are currently just 14 of us, but that is soon to expand to over 20 in the coming year, and we’re very excited!

 

Before starting IMLP, I was working as a full-time engineer with GE for 2 years.  So, to kick-off this series I’m going to tell you about IMLP in the UK and why I gave up my engineering job to move back on to a training program. 

I started back in 2007 for GE Aviation Systems in Cheltenham as a Systems Engineer working on avionics products.  This was a role I enjoyed immensely but towards the end of my second year I was ready for a new challenge, which was when I discovered IMLP. 

IMLP gave me the opportunity to get leadership and project management experience sooner than I would have been able to otherwise. 

Add to this the world-class training we receive and the huge peer and alumni network IMLPs have and I didn’t have to think twice.  I now get the opportunity to regularly meet with the senior leadership of our business, and the great thing is; they genuinely listen to our ideas.

Never without: Laptop, Blackberry, VPN tokenOne of the perks of the UK programme for me has been to be part of a global, mobile workforce.  I work with teams in the USA and India on a daily basis and I can work from anywhere with an internet connection (including home!).

 In fact I am writing this post from a GE Healthcare office in Milwaukee WI.  I’ll be hopping on a plane back to the UK next week, just in time to meet some prospective new IMLPs at Warwick University on the 19th October.  See you there!

 

 

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Wednesday
22Apr2009

IMLP Profile - Danny Slingerland

DateWednesday, April 22, 2009 at 6:00AM

dannyAs an International IMLP, Danny Slingerland has been able to live and work in places both close and (a little) far away from his home country of the Netherlands.

A graduate of The University of the Hague, majoring in Business process improvement , Danny is a member of the same IMLP "class" as yours truly (IMLP classes are defined by the group you went to ‘bootcamp' training with).

Danny spent his first rotation in Jenbach, Austria working for the GE Jenbacher business and crossed the North Sea for his second rotation in the UK with the Oil Field Technology business.

Danny is able to experience different cultures throughout  Europe, and these cultural changes sometimes result in funny situations.

For example, while in the UK, Danny walked towards the taxi and wanted to get in on the front seat and suddenly noticed a steering wheel...and the cab driver said, "are you going to drive me??"

After being in Jenbach, working on an ORACLE implementation project and skiing on the weekends, Danny is now part of an SAP integration project and enjoying London as well as all of the other beautiful cities in the UK.

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