Introduce Yourself!

[Keira Gallagher]

👋 Welcome to the Philly Atlassian Community Events chapter!

Please take a few minutes to introduce yourself to your fellow Philadelphians! And I know a lot of you are in the Greater Philadelphia area - the suburbs count too! 🙂

In your intro, share anything you're comfortable sharing, like:

• Your name
• Where you work
• How many years you've used Atlassian tools
• The Atlassian tools you're using (or have used)
• What draws you to Atlassian tools
• Any fun facts about yourself you'd like to share! 🏄‍♀️

[Dave LIAO]

@Keira Gallagher - 🙌 I'll start! (And would love to see your answers!)

• Where you work: I'm an admin for many SaaS systems, including Jira
• How many years you've used Atlassian tools: too long
• The Atlassian tools you're using (or have used): Bamboo, Crowd, Bitbucket, HipChat, Jira, Confluence, Statuspage, Trello, Loom ... Arc ✨
• What draws you to Atlassian tools: Atlassian's tools are meant to solve challenges that my teams and I face every day - and we love solving challenges!
• Any fun facts about yourself you'd like to share! I made an intro page on Community (that needs updating) in the Welcome Center - on it, I mention I love coffee. I think I love coffee too much. ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️

[Mathew Lederman]

Hello everyone! Checking in from West Chester out in the burbs!

• I work at Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) but fully remote. Our big offices are outside LA and Dallas.
• I've been using Atlassian tools for about 7 years now, admin for 3 ... interesting years
• Atlassian tools you're using: Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence. We have a few Trello users, but not an approved tool, so we're working on dwindling usage.
• What draws you to Atlassian tools: It used to be how flexible, simple, and functional everything was. Now that Atlassian is going more the direction of ServiceNow, I'm asking myself this question more often.
• Hoping to get out to Teams in Anaheim again this year, so if anybody else is going, would love to do a Philly meet-and-greet. 

Thanks for getting this going @Keira Gallagher 

[Dave LIAO]

@Mathew Lederman - d'oh, I remember seeing your post but forgot to help coordinate a Philly meet-and-greet!

Hopefully you can join the next Philly ACE!

[Gary Spross]

A little late to the party, but better late than never!

• Where you work:
  • I'm an admin for everything Atlassian for a SaaS company
• How many years you've used Atlassian tools:
  • I started working in Jira & Confluence server in 2008
• The Atlassian tools you're using (or have used):
  • Jira
  • Jira Service Management
    • Operations (formerly Opsgenie)
    • Assets
  • Jira Product Discovery
  • Confluence
  • Loom
  • Statuspage
• What draws you to Atlassian tools:
  • When I started working in Jira/Confluence, the instance was such a mess because nobody was maintaining it, so I volunteered myself. That was when I found my calling and realized how much I enjoyed helping to create process, apply automations, & configure integrations that made other users work life more efficient
• Any fun facts about yourself you'd like to share!
  • E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dave LIAO]

Yo! Welcome @Gary Spross !! 🙌