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Well hi there Lizzie! 

I'm Jason, and I've been in the Enterprise Mobility ecosystem for almost a decade, but dabbling with Android for far longer in a personal/hobbyist capacity. Long before I was locking hardware down to specific use cases, I was flashing and rooting to achieve them instead 🙂

I come from an IT support background so have always enjoyed getting into the weeds of things. 

At the moment I: 

• Work building Android Enterprise products and services
• Live and work from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales
• I also play Music (most of the lower brass family), but really enjoy cycling
• I'd struggle to answer the favourite tech, lots of it is useful in daily life - phones, tablets, other computing devices for single or multi-purpose. Rather than current fav, I think I'm most looking forward to proper AR; not so much the snorkeling goggles Apple have come out with, but equally not as minimalist as the Google Glass form factor. Proper AR glasses will be a game-changer for me.

For future replies, I'd also like to know - 

• What's your favourite or most transformative Android Enterprise feature in the past few years? Work profile won't be accepted as that's an obvious one 😉 

Hello everyone,

My name is Melkon Torosyan and I have been working at SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) as an ICT Architect in our Mobile Workplace Team for 11 years now. Before that, I worked for an IT service provider for 16 years and had been involved with mobile devices since the launch of the US Robotics PalmPilot.

We started very early at SBB with Android Enterprise and made the first attempts with Lollipop. When the technology was mature, we decided on it pretty quickly.

Our team is currently working on the following topics:

- Evaluation of new Android devices for train drivers and customer attendants
- Switch from company-owned device with a work profile to fully managed device for the users mentioned above
- Native printing from Android devices with Ricoh myPrint app

In my free time, I enjoy doing sports (running, mountain biking, swimming) and I have a passion for football.

Here are a few basic details about me.

Kind regards

Melkon

Hi Community!

My name is Travis Reeves and I work at Amedisys, supporting Home Health and Hospice clinicians. Our clinicians use Android Enterprise Fully Managed tablets to document their visits in the patient's home. I started supporting the tablets for 2 years, and have been the Intune MDM Administrator for the past 4 years. 

Our team is currently trying to find a better device enrollment process for our users, since they are largely not very tech savvy. We like using the Android Enterprise Fully Managed devices, but would love an easier and quicker way to get the device fully set up. 

I'm not sure if I can keep up with all you exercisers, lol. In my free time I mostly spend it indoors watching TV Shows, movies, or playing video games. I'm also a huge American Football fan, and watch some other sports when football isnt on, lol. 

For tech, I'm most interested in learning more about AI and how we can leverage it in different ways. I feel like we're still just scratching the surface on its potential. 

Hi all!

I'm Kristen one of your friendly neighborhood Made By Google Product Experts from the US. I volunteer with Fitbit as well since 2016 and added Google once Fitbit was acquired by Google. I've been a Product Expert since 2021.

I love music and have been singing since I was 3 years old. I love musical theater and performed in theater through college. Now I play my Ukulele where I get to play for the city.

Although I'm US based, I love to cruise and I'm about to embark on my 31st cruise.

Favorite piece of tech now is my Pixel Watch although I also have a Pixel phone that I'm typing this on, a convertible laptop, a regular laptop, and a Kindle tablet.

I'm an Activity Director for a local retirement community.

Hi all,

I'm Rafael Schäfer currently working @ JYSK and mainly responsible for our entire mobile (Android) devices to be managed over all countries for now ~4 years via Zero-Touch + MDM. And we have only a very small team handling this for all those countries but works fine.

I'm from Germany so hopefully my English is well enough to help here as well but in general i think so 😉
Even I haven't learned in a jab in the IT, i have somehow slipped in because of personal interests and was working in a certified service center for repairing and troubleshooting mobile devices from several manufacturers (Samsung, Sony, Motorola/Lenovo, CAT).

During private time i love gaming (Diablo 4) and spend time with my family. I'm also always the one to be asked regarding technical issues for parts of my family (except Apple :P) so i do some kind of "private PC and Android support".

So i hope to be able to help here with knowledge gathered from experience mainly and a bit from the Android Professional Certification.

Hello, my name is Michael, but I also go by Mike (everyone always asks what I prefer). I work within the corporate IT branch at Medtronic, primarily managing the technology stacks for all things MDM and MAM related, along with various other responsibilities that have fallen under the technologist role in recent times. I am based out of the US, and I have been "messing" around with Android since about 2011, when I got my first smartphone.

My hobbies and interest are pretty varied, but some of them fall in line with my daily work. I love technology in general, and I do a lot of self-hosting and testing in my own home lab. I have a Proxmox server running on some recent AMD hardware that powers a number of VMs that control my home network, VPN services, VLANs, NAS, Home Automation, and more. I am also an avid gamer, motorcyclist, car enthusiast, gym goer, and of course, a bar hobbyist with a home-built bar and many books on making the perfect cocktails.

Hard to pick only one piece of tech I couldn't live without, so I will narrow it down to 2. The Steam Deck has made being able to take gaming on the go so much more convenient, and I can't see myself without it these days and, of course, any number of my earbuds/headphones. I am a bit of an audiophile + techy, so I am constantly hunting for the best-sounding and featured earbuds/headsets available.

I have been working with Android Enterprise since the very beginning going back to 2017/2018 before it fully launched and hope I can both learn and bring my own experiences to this community moving forward.

I am a driver, I love listening to music and driving. I definitely need my phone for directions and listen to my favorite songs on it too. 

I love to learn, am annoyingly curious, which is probably how I ended up here! 

Hi! My name is Matt Dermody and I'm the Director of Engineering for an Enterprise Mobility team within a warehouse management and supply chain software company. The hardware that I support for our end customers that run our supply chain software is almost exclusively fully managed Android devices today, but  it hasn't always been that way. Prior to Android most of the equipment ran some variation of Windows Mobile or CE for many generations of device, across 15+ years. The Android journey for the warehouse space was a bit delayed relative to other industries but really took off around 2015-2016 when the biggest rugged player in the space, Zebra (previously Motorola/Symbol), made a big bet on Android. Android ushered in a new era of more touch screen centric software design and along with it a more active strategy around device management. There was historically a mindset of building "golden images" and "set it and forget it" and "security through obscurity" that surrounded the world of rugged WinCE devices that has all been upended in our industry transition to Android. I have been at the forefront of that transition, rewriting many of the mobile business applications to run on Android and adapting the UX accordingly. Along the way I also had to get sharp at managing the Android devices and the mobile applications that run on them and have spent the past 8-9 years staying plugged into the world of Android in order to stay informed on how to keep my apps updated and my device management skills fresh. 

Due to the nature of the environments I support I am extremely plugged into the fully managed, dedicated device space that is typically characterized by shared usage of mission critical devices. I almost know nothing about BYOD use cases and Work Profiles, nor do I necessarily care as they are not my area of specialization. I honestly would have preferred to have stuck with DA and begrudgingly moved over to DO under the Android Enterprise umbrella around the A8 timeframe. A8 was a little early relative to the deprecation cycle but I was glad to rip the bandaid off early and commit my customers to AEDO long before we were forced to. 

Favorite piece of tech that I couldn't live without? Ironically it would have to be my iPhone. I sell and manage Android devices for a living and have done so for close to 10 years now, but I would never use one myself. Weird? I dunno. I simultaneously would never recommend anyone under any circumstance try to run a warehouse with an iOS device so its more a matter of hardware specialization for me. I've been an iPhone user since the 3G came out and prior to that used HTC Windows Mobile smart phones so I've only ever had smart phones my whole life. I've also ironically never owned an Android phone and don't have any interest for my personal life. AFW not AFL, right??

Beyond that, I'm based in Colorado and I love to snowboard and do other outdoor activities on the weekend like rock climbing, hiking, camping, SUPing, etc. I'm also into electronic music and house and travel relatively frequently to see shows. I DJ a little on the side for fun, but don't have any professional aspirations there. 

Hi there!

My name is Alex and I am an EMM admin at the City of Munich.
The city of Munich currently has around 1,6 million citizens, whose needs are taken care of by around 43,000 employees.
I have been working for the City of Munich in the field of mobile devices for a bit more than 10 years. At that time, we primarily had Symbian devices (Nokia), but also our first Android tablets and smartphones (~ Android 4.0). Together with a colleague, we operate an on-prem EMM and regularly adapt the technical solutions to the requirements and technical changes. 😃
Before I started working for the City of Munich, I worked for providers. Due to the boom in smartphones in particular, providers had to build and upgrade additional sites to handle the increased network traffic. In Bavaria, I spent a few years setting up base stations for UMTS and LTE and later worked as a construction manager for radio relay systems. But I preferred a "real" IT job in the long run. 😀

Apart from work:

• I live in Freising, near Munich airport 🚩
• I really enjoy hiking. Sport is also a must! (a training session at the gym at noon on home office days is great) 🌄
• I like playing board games (tip: Wingspan!) 🎲
• Since I grew up with a Sega Mega Drive and SNES, I still enjoy playing computer games today 🕹
• Can't play any instruments, but likes to go to concerts 🎶
• I like to travel. Rather rarely, but to special places (Feel free to check out my YouTube video about a trip to the wildlife of Uganda)

Favourite piece of tech? Well, that would probably be smartphones. I use more suitable devices for special tasks (photos, for work), but the smartphone is simply the all-rounder in my pocket.

Hi Lizzie, I believe I have finally got on the site as myself… cross your fingers all. I’m a paralegal of 20 years who has been working ( sh as lol we call it that) with apple regarding their privacy policy and how they cannot get me out of an organization I’d of an unknown company I don’t belong to… I’m from Costa Rica, speak Spanish, yet American 109%. If any one has any ways to wish me luck more than I have had.. thx - Chloe