Cody Harmon
Computer Science
1 st Internship

 Founded in 1915 with the construction of the twinfloat seaplane.
 1939-1945 Boeing produced planes for the war.
 1946 Propellers were replaced with jet engines.
 1946-1956 Started producing Commercial Airplanes.
 1970-1996 Boeing produces airplanes with computer controlled systems, and launches a satellite facility.
 1997-present World headquarters is placed in Chicago.
The first 787 Dreamliner is completed in 2007.

 Flexible schedule
 Arrived at 6am – 7am and worked until 2:30pm –
3:30pm
 8 hour days Monday through Friday
 40 Hours a week with the possibility of approved overtime
 Ability to flex schedule and shift hours over to other days. Ex. Work 7 hours on Monday and 9 on Tuesday

 Salaried employee
 Wage 17.836538 dollars an hour
 Overtime $17.836538 + $6.50 an hour ($24.336538)
 Vacation accrual rate of 1.534253 hours per week
 Sick days accrue at the rate of 1 day per month
 Health and Dental insurance provided by Boeing with no cost to employee
 Unused vacation at end of internship is cashed out at your hourly pay rate

 Responsible for minor quick change requests
 ROI Me: Moderate ROI Boeing: Moderate
 1 st project – Redesign Internal Boeing Portland Phone List
Website
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Converted classic ASP to ASP.NET v2.0
Converted Visual Basic to C#
Applied the Boeing master page to website
Redesigned the user interface of the website
 ROI ME: High ROI Boeing: High

 2 nd project – My largest project
 Convert classic ASP and Visual Basic websites to
ASP.NET v2.0 and C#
 After the conversion process was complete the Boeing master page was applied
 All changes were tracked in Rational ClearQuest
 Source control was Microsoft’s Visual Source Safe
 ROI Me: High ROI Boeing: High

 3 rd project – Create Cascading Style Sheet for the
Portland master page
 Existing master page CSS wasn’t compatible with IE7
 CSS had to make the master page look exactly like it did in Firefox 2 & 3
 ROI Me: High ROI Boeing: Very High

 4 th project – Redesign Instant Award Vouchers website
 Customer requested changes to a large website application
 I was in charge of heading up the changes
 The website went through an upgrade from ASP.NET v1.1 to
ASP.NET v2.0 and the Boeing master page was applied
 User interface was modified to requested specifications
 Code behind was converted from Visual Basic to C# and some functions were modified to accommodate the user interface changes
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ROI Me: High ROI Boeing: Very High

 Projects were monitored by my mentor Kevin Durr
 All projects went through a process cycle defined in
Rational ClearQuest
 Wrong entries in ClearQuest resulted in automated emails sent to Kevin
 Projects were always placed in source control (VSS)
 Typical software process
 Submitted, Analyze, Approve, In Work, Functional Test,
Customer Test, Verify, Completed

 Working with different departments within Boeing was common
 The Portland IT Group creates and supports website applications for “customers” or different departments
 For my projects I interacted with the NC Programming group, Dell Support Group, Human Resources Group, and Gearline Business Team
 The Portland IT Group has a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee.

 I have learned the importance of having a software development process (Waterfall Model)
 Learned ASP, ASP.NET v1.1, ASP.NET v2.0, AJAX, C#,
CSS, MS-SQL, and some Visual Basic
 Learned that gathering requirements for large projects can be difficult and time consuming
 Figured out how to use Visual Studio 2005 and its many features, including how to bind VSS for automated source control

 CS 261 Data Structures
 CS 275 Introduction to Databases
 CS 311 Operating Systems I
 CS 361 Software Engineering I
 CS 362 Software Engineering II

 Boeing is a great place for your first internship
 I feel that I learned many new and useful skills
 The internship helped me progress toward future goals
 Boeing has laid out a good structure for interns and
Mike Lushenko is able to answer all MECOP related questions