Who?
The Product Manager for the Digital learning platform. They may or may not have a Southern accent.
Who is Brad? (Adams)
The Oncology Information System that Varian produces and sells to our customers. It is also a song for a solo voice in an opera.
What is ARIA?
Our Learning Experience Developer is scheduled to join the team in this month.
What is February?
Megan is one of our e-learning content developers. This is the state in the Mountain time zone where she resides.
What is Idaho?
A method in which pictures are manipulated to appear as moving images. Traditionally, images were drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most are made with CGI. Lisa?
What is animation?
This person is the Program Manager for the Digital Learning Platform. Brad's boss until October 1, 2020.
Who is Christine? (Ardema)
This is our primary treatment planning product offering to customers. It is also the obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer.
What is Eclipse?
Vendor selection is ongoing. This is the month when we must make a final decision on who we will partner with for our new platform.
What is March?
Roger lives near the research triangle in this state.
What is North Carolina?
The process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography, and illustration. The use of symbols, images and text to form visual representations of ideas and messages. Roger?
What is graphic design?
A lovely British accent is not the only talent this person brings to the team. They are also a very talented Animator.
Who is Lisa? (Springett)
One of our newest treatment delivery products. It is named after the city in California where the Varian brothers were born.
What is Halcyon?
This month is the target for the English only pilot of the project.
What is September?
Ken, Christine, Susan and Aerielle all share the Pacific time zone. In what state do Ken and Aerielle live?
What is Nevada?
The process of delivering bite-sized content to learners that they can consume all at once and apply the knowledge immediately.
What is micro-learning?
One of our E-learning Content Developers, this person is a subject matter expert on ARIA Oncology Information System (among others).
Who is Alex? (Salima)
Currently our best selling treatment device. This machine produces a photon beam with sub-millimeter accuracy.
What is TrueBeam?
Our remote video upgrade training strategy should save the company $2.4M by this month.
What is September?
Our Learning Experience Developer lives in this Central Time Zone State.
What is Michigan?
A well-developed fictional profiles that reflect audience member groups for whom we are designing a course. These audience groups are prototypes of learners in our target audience that share common characteristics, such as their training goals, job responsibilities, educational background or skill level. Every course has at least one audience group and most courses have several.
What is a persona?
The Senior Director of Education and Training. This is one of our Executive Sponsors for the digital learning platform. This person's office is in the Las Vegas Education Center.
Who is Sue? (Merritt)
This product will offer our customers an engaging, customized and accessible learning environment that is safe, effective, financially viable and helps improve patient outcomes in FY20.
What is the Digital Learning Platform? We would also accept "Varian University" or "Varian Academy".
In this month, we plan to reveal our new Education Learning platform to our customers at the annual American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) meeting.
What is October?
Just south of our office in Crawley, UK along the coast, this is the city that Lisa calls home.
What is Brighton?
A learning method that encourages students to learn from proven techniques/explanations given by experts. This is different than product-based training.
What is solution-based training? (or Persona based training.)