Say hello and tell us: what's on your desk?

[Jenn McClung]

Hi All,

I'm Jenn from the DFW, Texas area.  I started using Jira about 7 years ago and have been slowly adding knowledge of the additional Atlassian products.  I just completed the Atlassian Administrator track and am about to look into certifications.  

I guess it's about time I become active in the community.  :-)  

[Monique vdB]

Welcome @Jenn McClung! If your avatar is your kitty, you owe us a pet pic here. :) 

So glad to have your knowledge and expertise here!

[Jodi LeBlanc]

Welcome @Jenn McClung! Congrats on completing the Atlassian Admin track, and PS. Adorable kitten :)

[Meg Holbrook]

Welcome Jenn! Excited to see you around =^_^=

[Jesse]

Hi Everybody,

My name's Jesse Ivy and I work for IEQ Technology in Springfield, Oregon, here in the United States. I'm currently working on a Java API to administer a higher education curriculum to apprentices.

I have a limited edition Josh Keyes autographed print, a box of cuban cigars, a skull, my stainless steel coffee cup, a luke skywalker (return of the jedi) action figure, a Fortune's Folly sticker, A giant teardrop carnelian my ex found in the river, Donald Duck (University of Oregon's Mascot), a photo of my oldest son, tissues, a random Windows 7 CD (I work on a mini mac so yeah, weird), and a little rack of the hemp greeting cards I make on my desk.

I'm an environmental activist with a focus on renewable energy.

Jedi Wear Hemp!


Cheers,

ji

[Erica Moss]

@Jesse Love the variety, Jesse! Welcome. 😎

[Meg Holbrook]

Welcome Jesse! The Carnelian sounds beautiful, I used to have one that looked like the Grand Canyon condensed into a little rock. 

[Jesse]

Thanks! It's a nice carnelian yes, almost the size of my fist. She found it while she was searching for her phone to call me, which she had left in the sun on the hot rocks. Was romantic because it's a teardrop and she was crying at the time.

It has come to my attention that I neglected to mention my desk also has a the fastest Mac Mini in the office on it, in addition to two monitors. And I inadvertently set up my dev environment under the Administrator account, which I sort of like. At my former place of employment I was working for a hardware manufacturer who gave me twice as many monitors but anything past three isn't very useful.

And a tiny galaxy bar from Wales.

Minimal I am not. :)

[Jolene Hey]

Hello! My desk has a laptop, 2 monitors, a keyboard, and a mouse.

[Meg Holbrook]

Hi Jolene! Welcome to the party!

[Jesse]

AWESOME REPLY! Minimalist. I dig it. 

[Jodi LeBlanc]

I love minimalism! Welcome Jolene 😊

[Erica Moss]

Welcome, @Jolene Hey! 👋🏼

[Eager Learner]

Aw yeah!

[Courtney Langdon]

Hi, I'm Courtney! I've built multiple team spaces and knowledge bases in Confluence, both at my previous company as a Community Manager and at my current company as a Knowledge Manager. I <3 Confluence. ;) I've been a lurker in this Community for a while, but this is my first post.

On my desk I have the usual assortment of Pop Funko characters, posters advertising the Knowledge base, an Atlassian Team Tour lanyward, and a variety of greeting cards, photos, and random paper. 

Most common question I get from my users: "Hey, how did you make it do that thing on that page?" (The answer is usually a creative use of a macro, lol.)

I've also started using Trello to help keep me organized, and I am loving it as well. There's something very satisfying about moving a card from the "Doing" column / swim lane to "DONE". :D

[Erica Moss]

Welcome, @Courtney Langdon! I need you to help me polish my skills in Confluence, for sure. Also, I have a soft spot for Trello (I was their dedicated community manager for a year), so let me know if I can help there at all. Be sure to check out https://trello.com/inspiration for some of the prettiest boards you ever did see. 😎

[Courtney Langdon]

Thanks, @Erica Moss! I love dishing Confluence, so you can ping me anytime. Thanks for the Trello link; these are awesome. I use mine for tracking my blog posts, too, just like their "Blog Post Ideas". I'd go crazy without it!  (Eeee, I just copied one on Vacation Planning!) :)

[Erica_Garcia]

Hello from San Diego! A new challenge in a new industry brought me to the gates of Atlassian and I am enjoying it all. I am so not a minimalist and might freak everyone out with how much is on my desk

[Jesse]

Hi Erica,

Sounds ominous. Is there a tesseract on your desk? ;)


Welcome Aboard!

-ji

[Erica_Garcia]

Haha no tesseract but do have a #Bosslady dice

[Jesse]

WOW! Nice! :) 

[Eager Learner]

Hello everyone!  I'm new to becoming active in this community.  The question is "what's on my desk?"   My laptop, Water bottle and my wireless mouse.  I keep it simple.

[Erica_Garcia]

Welcome Gabe!

[Erica Moss]

@Eager Learner I like it — welcome, Gabe!

[Eager Learner]

Thanks, Erica!

[Maria Sundling]

Hello everyone,

I'm Tech Consultant and JIRA Admin in a small-ish software dev company working with NLI (Natural Language Interaction).

I'm on part time maternity leave, therefor I work mostly from home and since summer finally arrived Sweden, this is my desk for today...

Happy JIRA-ing everyone!

[Erica Moss]

@Maria Sundling Loving the view — welcome, Maria!

[Erica_Garcia]

NICE! welcome Maria :)

[Maria Sundling]

Thank you! :)

[Ollie Guan]

Hi all, I come from an agile team in China. Besides the Atlassian products, we are also experimenting with agile practices offline.

[Erica Moss]

@Ollie Guan We're glad you're here, Ollie!

[Dario Dorismond]

Hello All! New to the community...

[Erica Moss]

Welcome, welcome, @Dario Dorismond!

[Gillian Rourke]

Hi, I'm Gillian, based in London, UK.  I work for a consultancy firm and we use Confluence and Jira to support collaboration within the firm and also to support project teams.  While I feel very confident in Confluence, I don't have admin rights so there's only so much I can do.  Would love to learn more about Confluence and Jira.  Oh, and Trello too.  That looks ace!!

We hotdesk at work too, so I don't have much on my desk at the moment.  2 napkins, my Bose headphones, my headphone/lightning adapter and my 2 phones.  However, on my Desktop I keep the image of our firm's standard colours and their HTML codes.

I'm looking forward to becoming involved in this community and learning more along the way! :D

[Josh Steckler]

Yay Bose headphones! I'm the Bose Jira & Confluence admin.

[Erica Moss]

Welcome, @Gillian Rourke! If you want to dive into Trello a bit more, I suggest checking out the inspiration page: https://trello.com/inspiration. So much good stuff there!

[Matthew Kelly]

Greetings from (near) Boston!

My name is Matt and I'm a Senior Producer at Disruptor Beam where we use Jira and Confluence to help us make mobile games.  I've been using Jira and Confluence for about 4 years on a bunch of different game projects, and am currently doing a deep dive into how to leverage Portfolio for Jira here at Disruptor Beam.

Current desk status:

[Erica Moss]

Welcome, @Matthew Kelly! Look forward to seeing more of you. 😄

[Josh Steckler]

Fellow Boston suburbanite here! You ever come to the Boston AUGs?

[Matthew Kelly]

Greetings Josh!  I made it out to this Boston AUG last November (and will definitely try to hit up some more in the future):

https://aug.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-boston-presents-mathworks-november-29-noestimates-jira-solution-portfolio-safe-45-and-devops-toolchain

[Kate Foster]

Hi from Boston.

I have my bag, paper tissues and hot tea (since I have a flue) and my cool colorful calendar. Also, my computer, of course, with Movavi Slideshow running (https://www.movavi.com/photo-to-dvd-slideshow/). Have finals in a few weeks.

[Erica Moss]

Welcome to the party, @Kate Foster! 🎉

[fulvio]

hello, this is my messed up desk ;-) 
Hi!! Fulvio

[Erica Moss]

@fulvio That's quite the setup! Welcome. 😎

[Gary Pasquale]

Hello,

I'm Gary based in Norwich, UK.

I've been a Jira & Confluence admin for over 4 years. Recently became an Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator (ACP-JA).

We've grown our Jira instance from around 200 local users to 11,000 + global users in 4 years. Jira really does sell itself!

I won't bore you with a picture of whats on my desk. it's really nothing out of the ordinary. Although the views are pretty special....

[Erica Moss]

@Gary Pasquale Definitely laughed out loud — welcome, Gary!

[Deleted user]

Hello @Gary Pasquale, which part of Norwich are you from? 

[Gary Pasquale]

Hi @[deleted], I work in the city centre and live by the football ground (which is still pretty central) 

[Thomas Schlegel]

That's what I call a working place :-) - welcome @Gary Pasquale

[Deleted user]

@Gary Pasquale Yes, I know the area well. I lived near Norwich for a time. 

[Dam - iDalko]

Hi everybody,

I'm Damien Lauberton. I fall in love with Atlassian products 10 years ago. I also use JIRA when I go fishing !

My life runs on Jira: an inventory system for carp fishing

I'm working as an Atlassian expert since almost 4 years, in France but also in Europe.

Hope to see some of you at the Atlassian summit in Barcelona next September.

cheers !

[Erica Moss]

We've got a good crew heading to Summit for sure — and we're glad you're here, @Dam - iDalko!

[Dam - iDalko]

thanks :)

[Lisa Stren]

Hello everyone, I'm Lisa in Halifax, Canada and I'm pretty comfortable with Confluence. I've been using Confluence as a user for a few years and about 6 months as an administrators.

My desk is super chaotic. Not messy, but I like lots of little knick-knacks and having lots of colour (and washi tape) around. :)

[Lisa Stren]

I guess I should also mention that I am learning a lot about Jira as an administrator right now. (Also very familiar as a user).

[Erica Moss]

Color's always a great move — welcome, @Lisa Stren!

[Fernanda Moreno]

Hi All,

I'm a Brazilian/Spanish Release Manager living and working in Barcelona. 

I will not show what's on my desk, as it's all simple stuff. You can easily picture it. 

I can, instead, say what I wish there were: one black cat, a pot of gold with an elf by the side, 0% calorie-0%fat chocolate that taste the same as milk chocolate.

[Erica Moss]

Welcome, @Fernanda Moreno!

[Omar Herrera]

Hi I'm from Panama this is my desk.

[P_D_ Foerster]

Hi, I'm Patrice from Germany. I work as a system administrator at diva-e Digital Value Excellence GmbH, an IT service provider.

My desk looks rather clean I think :D What's on it? Well, of course the obvious stuff: notebook, keyboard, mouse and extended display and also my headset.

The other things are a picture of me and my wife with my little daughter :) , a kudo card congratulating me to my passed ACP Jira/Confluence Admin, and an NSD powerball. This thing is great to relax your fingers / hands / arms wwhen you type and click all day ;)
This little sheet directly below my display is a Team Playbook Card that want to use with my team in our next review.

In everyday work I'm responsible for our Atlassian apps at work (Jira, Confluence, Crucible) and also consulting my fellow employees regarding usage / best practices.

I am in the community because

• I have been here before (in Confluence Questions & Answers)
• lots of good topics are discussed here
• I can get help/support from other admins/users
• I want to connect to other users :)
• I want so share and help if possible

I wish you all a great friday and weekend  :)

Cheers,
Patrice

[Lisa Stren]

Welcome, Patrice!

[Jesse]

Hi Patrice, 

Nice monitor! My boss has a huge curved one kinda like that. I need to get a third myself. Or maybe just another machine.

Welcome Aboard!


Kind Regards,

ji

[P_D_ Foerster]

Thanks :)
I can recommend this monitor! It's great to work with and if you want you can split the display by using picture in picture with two input signals. We're all getting these monitors now in our company :D

[Erica Moss]

Loving this intro, @P_D_ Foerster! We're glad to have you.

[P_D_ Foerster]

@Erica Mossglad to be here :)

[Matt Poladian]

Hello World!

[P_D_ Foerster]

Hi Matt, welcome :)

[Steve Presser]

Hi, my name is Steve Presser with BeniComp. We are a company obsessed with health and education, and are doing our best to create tools to help fix the healthcare system. We've been using Atlassian products for years to build and manage our custom software application, and also manage the day-to-day of the business. We primarily work in JIRA and continue to build the team and explore other functions and products under the Atlassian umbrella. I hope to communicate and learn from others in the community.

[Erica Moss]

Welcome, @Steve Presser! We hope to learn from you as well. 😄

[Ton]

Hi Folks,

I'm Everton David, I'm from Brazil and I'm living in Sao Paulo.

I have a portfolio developed in ​​IT since 2002. Bachelor in Information Systems and MBA in Project Management, today I've been working as an Certificated Atlassian Consultant at e-Core, PS: We are hiring (send me a message)

[Brian Johnson]

Hey folks, I'm new to the Community although I've been using JIRA a little while. My team relies on JIRA for case management so I'm interested in continuing to strengthen my knowledge of the system to better support them. I don't have any real cute pictures to post now, but I do have a great Beta fish at home! 

[Deleted user]

Hello All, 

My name is Danny Harris, I'm a Project Coordinator at ZeroLight, a digital agency that creates interactive experiences and content that connect automotive brands to their customers. 

I have been using Jira and Confluence for over 6 years now with no sign of stopping! :D 

I regularly use the Community as a learning platform; learning from interesting questions that are asked of by others, and helping others by answers the question topics I have experience in. 

This is my desk, post-it notes are from the recent retrospective btw. 

Thanks

[Erica Moss]

We're lucky to have you, @[deleted]!

[Davin Studer]

Here's my desk. Couldn't get the company to spring for a sit/stand desk, so I improvised.

[Erica Moss]

@Davin Studer Creativity, FTW. 💪🏽

[Davin Studer]

Yeah, it ended up being the perfect height.