Introduce yourselves, Atlassian Answerers!
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Apparently I'm late to the answerers party - hi!
I work for a US-based nationwide mortgage lender in California. My main roles are managing our technical help desks, third-party application teams, and our in-house mortgage technology development team. I moonlight as the JIRA/Confluence admin as well.
In my free time I work more - my side business is laser-engraving wood jewelry and accessories. More recently, I've begun making and selling cloth masks since there's an immense need and market for those right now. (pictured below is a leather mask I made for giggles, these are not the cloth masks I make haha)
Here's some pictures of my creative work since my work-work is lots of uninteresting button pressing:
Where you're from:
I work in New York City - I live in New Jersey - I'm from the mid-west
What you do with your free time:
Agility Research, Photography, Cooking/Baking and I love binging Movie and TV
What you do with your work time:
I help teams with Tools, Culture and Experience as best I can - baby steps
Why you answer Community questions:
I think Atlassian has many big customers but I see many many small teams and not-technical teams that could really benefit from tools that help shape culture. I want to help them all, somehow.
Link to your proudest Accepted Answer:
Help with OKR template in Confluence
Your favorite quote: (Just one? ... yikes.)
“Building an exceptional team or institution starts with a founder. But being a founder doesn’t mean starting a new company. It is within anyone’s grasp to be the founder and culture-creator of their own team, whether you are the first employee or joining a company that has existed for decades.”― Laszlo Bock
Photos of your pets/favorite vacation/creative creation:
Hey peoples! I'm Andrew, and I do Atlassian stuff like plugin development, administration, and whatever needs to be done for my company.
I'm located in Hattiesburg, MS. In my free time, I like to play around with the Ham Radio, working on data/packet and also do some emergency communication in my community. At work, I do anything and everything that is needed by our clients and our internal teams. This ranges from setting up, configuring, developing plugins and scripts to doing Linux administration and devops (Java, Perl, .NET, etc). I also do random integration between applications via SOAP, REST, or whatever else.
I don't have a good pet photo at the moment, but here is a cartoon drawing of my cat by a talented artist in Spain:
I don't answer a whole lot of questions, but maybe I will now! I usually browse the community for solutions and I'll come up on a post where someone is having issues and I happen to know the answer. I figure people help me, so I might as well help others.
- From the "Queen City" - Charlotte, NC
- What you do with your free time
- Part time drag queen. :-) Why not? I also knit, crochet, and sew.
- What you do with your work time
- I wear many hats as a supporting administrator, Atlassian Administration being just one.
- Photos of your pets/favorite vacation/creative creation
- My Miranda Priestly re-creation for a charity show. The other is from my weekly trivia shows.
- Your favorite quote
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. -
- Why you answer Community questions
- To help others as much as I can!
- Link to your proudest Accepted Answer ;)
- Hmmm... Did I have a good one? :-)
I hope I'm not too late for the party! Hi, I'm Rodney, and I'm new to the group!
- Where you're from
Where I'm from is a bit of a long-winded question, but I currently live just outside Atlanta, GA, U.S.
- What you do with your free time
Well, with my free time I enjoy playing Video Games, Board Games, take pictures or tinkering with my servers. Oh, I also do some writing: https://thejiraguy.com/
- What you do with your work time
I actually work as an Atlassian Consultant for Coyote Creek Consulting. Which usually means I can be doing just about anything on any given day.
- Photos of your creative creation
Well, there's this picture I got at an airshow a few years ago.
- Your favorite quote
"A Journey of 1,000 miles begins with but one step."
- Why you answer Community questions
Guess it's the same reason I still write on the blog - I enjoy helping people out. And well, if that's true, go where the people are.
Hi everyone, Stephen here
- from Knoxville, Tennessee
- In my free time, I like to watch auto racing and college football, cook barbecue, and go hiking with my family
- At work I'm a scrum master at an e-commerce software development agency
- Below is a picture of me at Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach, Hawaii
- “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” - John Maeda
- I like to answer community questions because I’ve found so many answers here myself, I really value it. It’s rewarding to contribute and help others.
- Answer to: Is there a way to show Issue Status in the Backlog?
Hi, I'm Geoff,
- I'm from Canberra, Australia (Australia's Capital city, a lot smaller than Sydney or Melbourne).
- I spend time helping my kids learn to study, walking the rescue greyhounds,volunteering on the P&C at the local school. I used to run, I should get back to that.
- I run an Atlassian Partner (Training and Solution) business; I work with clients on how to get the most out of their Atlassian Stack.
- Practice makes better (ok, that's mine, I prefer to practice makes perfect).
- I answer questions as I'm in IT, sort of helping people is what I've been doing my entire life.
So here's Coco, a small greyhound, she's meditating.
