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National Instruments

Working For National Instruments - Engineering Leadership Program

09/2017-12/2018

Starting at NI - Applications Engineer

 

I joined NI's Engineering Leadership Program (ELP) in September of 2017. I completed 6 weeks of training before beginning my role in the Applications Engineering department. My responsibilities included:

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  • Helping our customers by providing support in different software (LabVIEW, TestStand, DIAdem and VeriStand) and hardware (cDAQs, cRIOs and PXIs)

  • Holding software courses in our UK office and at customer sites, both in the UK and abroad

  • Being involved in recruitment events, for example interviewing candidates and assessing technical presentations

  • Creating internal training content and mentoring new employees

  • Working with customers to develop applications

  • Took part in a graduate project working in a team of five to develop a complete testing system for a simulated engine

  • Creating online information (knowledge base articles) for users of NI products

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Below are some examples of the online material I have created:

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Internal Rotation - Sales Development Engineer

 

As part of the ELP, I rotated to the sales side of the industry to become a Sales Development Engineer. It is important that ELP employees at NI get a high level view of the industry to become successful. Engineering does not happen in vacuum and it is important that a clear business focus should be the drive to help customers. During this rotation, I am building on my communication and negotiation skills which I learned when working for Unilever. My responsibilities include:

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  • Negotiating with customers and selling the NI brand

  • Specifying systems for testing, monitoring and control. This a customer focused role and products are chosen based on consumer needs

  •  Managing a database of contacts and updating information to work with other departments (such as marketing and account holders)

  • Working in a high complexity environment and managing multiple tasks simultainiously

Achievements and Other Roles

 

While working for NI I have accomplished several tasks and developed several skills including:

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  • Taking an active role in the recruitment process, interviewing candidates, assessing presentations, managing group exercises and deciding on hiring candidates

  • Sitting LabVIEW courses in Core 1, Core 2, Data Acquisition and Embedded Control and Monitoring

  • Teaching several courses including Core 1, Core 2, Data Acquisition and Developing with TestStand

  • Managing several internal projects to improve the Applications Engineering department

  • Achieved a Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) Certification level in LabVIEW and am working toward a Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) level.

  • Achieved a Certified TestStand Developer (CTD) Certification level in TestStand

  • Worked with a variety of NI software 

2018 by Chris Hyde.

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