BioTek社員へのインタビュー

Name: Kirstin
Title: International Customer Care Representative
Office: BioTek U.S. (Vermont)
Years with BioTek: 11 years
Favorite Pastime: Being with my family, singing karaoke with family and friends, going to the beach, playing soccer, enjoying a nice glass of wine or beer with great friends, snuggling on the couch with Ella and Paul watching movies, eating and laughing.

What makes BioTek a great place to work?
The family like atmosphere, the people, the fact that the President and Vice President of the company know everyone’s names and something about them and that you can talk to them at any given time about anything, the fact that I can have an idea about something and present it to my manager and have it supported.

What your deparment does?
In customer care our main job is to support the customer in any way necessary. We help with logistics of orders, processing of orders, production questions. We work really hard to make the customers experience with BioTek to be easy, friendly and seamless. One of our biggest strengths is that we find a way to make the impossible possible and the customers take notice of this!

What do you like best about your job?
The freedom I have to do my job to the best of my ability. The people I get to meet around the world and have become not only colleagues but also friends. The support I have from my colleagues.

What is your favorite web site?
Popcap.com - I love to play the game Bejeweled to relax…a bit lame, but true. Oh, and the Food Network.

What is your favorite social network?
My cousin's blog. I get to keep up with her and her family and laugh with her at her stories of being an amazing stay at home mom.

Who is your living hero?
My mom. My mom is strong, brave, optimistic and one of the most intelligent persons I know. She exudes grace, class and beauty in every situation of life. Someone to truly look up to and admire and model yourself after. She is just amazing.

Why do you enjoy living and working in Vermont?
I love the beauty of Vermont. It is beautiful state with four amazing seasons…well spring/mud season is questionable. There is always something to do. A fantastic lake, mountains for hiking or skiing, bike paths. You can be as busy as you like or do as little as you like and just sit back and enjoy the view.

Other Comments / Thoughts?
Many thanks for BioTek for giving me the opportunity to work at such an amazing company. It has been a great experience to grow with the company over the last 11 years. Thank you for allowing me to make my small contributions to the company.

Name: Pete
Title: Applications Scientist
Office: BioTek U.S. (Vermont)
Years with BioTek: 4 years
Favorite Pastime: Hockey, boating, biking, skiing, home improvement projects and working on cars/motorcycles.

What makes BioTek a great place to work?
BioTek’s culture is a tremendous asset the organization holds. The culture creates a challenging environment in which to work with a highly capable, talented employee pool with a family feel. This provides the opportunity for experiential learning while engaging in a variety of projects. The management is very supportive and open minded.

What do you like best about your job?
The ability to use the entire product line to develop protocols and guidelines that will assist our customers use our instrumentation to their fullest capabilities. We get to push the limits of our instrumentation in the applications labs on a wide variety of assay types.

What is your favorite web site?
The Wall Street Journal (although I usually use the app now).

What is your favorite social network?
LinkedIn

Who is your living hero?
Donald Trump

Why do you enjoy living and working in Vermont?
Vermont provides a great deal of recreational opportunities and I love the change in seasons. I spent many years traveling to S. Vermont as a child visiting relatives in Rutland, Castleton and at our camp on Lake Bomoseen.

Name: Debra
Title: Final QC
Office: BioTek U.S. (Vermont)
Years with BioTek: 13
Favorite Pastime: Crafts

What makes BioTek a great place to work?
The people and the flexible hours! More trust and independence than most companies allow as far as learning your job and executing it. Our ability to have input into the jobs and processes.

What your department does?
QC department inspects all products before they leave the manufacturing floor for shipping.

What do you like best about your job?  
Contributing to our company by ensuring we have a quality product.

What is your favorite web site?
Currently that would be pinterest.com which is a cool virtual bulletin board to help share interests and save them.

What is your favorite social network?
Facebook

Who is your living hero?
Honestly.. my husband.

Why do you enjoy living and working in Vermont?  
I was born here and I love the change of seasons and the independence and hardiness of Vermonters. The sheer beauty of the state.

Name: Sabine
Title: Marketing and Human Resources Manager
Office: BioTek Instruments GmbH, Germany
Years with BioTek: 10 years
Favorite Pastime: Meeting friends, Traveling, Reading, Art and Design

What makes BioTek a great place to work?
Friendly atmosphere and the sense of responsibility and accomplishment. Even though we make ambitious goals, everyone is treated with respect.

What do you like best about your job?
The freedom combined with the daily challenge. It gives me a lot of opportunities and I enjoy having to use my initiative.

What is your favorite web site?
No special web site but I like Wikipedia and the German version of "Overheard".

What is your favorite social network?
I don't have a special social network. Beside a private network from my schooldays I'm very much involved in our Marketing Club and Analytical Management Circle BioTek has a membership for.

Who is your living hero?
I think that it is important to make a distinction between the heroic figures that we value and the role models that have impacted our lives.

One of my living heroes is Aung San Suu Kyi - The pro-democracy campaigner and Peace Nobelprice Winner Suu Kyi was 15 years under house arrest in her native Burma (officially known as Myanmar). Although she could seek refuge abroad she chooses to stay, even to death. I look up to her as someone who even tightens up her grip on life and her cause with every personal tragedy that happened.

Role models in my life were my Dad and my Grandma. Both gave important advices in a very humorous and wise way and taught me a lot of things. (Who else got a drill hammer for Christmas). And what is even more important, they’ve never let me down.