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Hi, my name is Rick MacDuffie and I am a Lead Business Analyst at Symetra responsible for managing our Workfront instance. We utilize workfront to shepherd marketing, marketing operations and brand management projects through product lifecyles. I joined Symetra in November 2018 without any previous experience with Workfront. I've been studying / reading / watching as many topics as I can possibly digest. How do you use Workfront? Project management and moderate request fulfillment functions. What would make this community amazing for you? I've found it pretty useful so far. How much time do you spend using Workfront on a daily basis? All day, e'ry day! What are you passionate about (other than work)? My work week doesn't end on Friday. I own and operate a BBQ food truck / catering business. When I get time off I enjoy backpacking and hammock camping in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. What's your favorite joke? Any joke that embarrasses my 17 year old daughter is pure gold. #dadjokes Rick MacDuffie Symetra Life Insurance Company

Hey ya'll, My name is Samantha. I'm an intern on the customer advocacy team at Workfront! I met some of you at Leap, but am so excited to get to know more of you through the community. I'll do my best to help where I can on the existing community and contribute to the upcoming Community 2.0 so we can all connect and help each other use Workfront in the best way possible! A bit about me: I'm a student at Brigham Young University-Idaho studying communications right now and love it. I love trying new foods and documenting the experience! Check it out @thegirlwhocanfood on Instagram. If there's anyone in the Utah/Idaho area who has a favorite restaurant let me know! As for my favorite joke: What do you call a three-humped camel? Pregnant! Have a great day everyone! Samantha Johnson Workfront

My name is Ken Layng. I am the Associate Director for the Penn State Alumni Association. In that capacity, I am responsible for spinning up project and portfolio management in support of the world's largest alumni association. How do you use Workfront? Historically (prior role) I used the tool on a daily basis to manage multiple projects across a distributed IT organization at Penn State. I am currently in the process of gathering requirements for the ultimate implementation for a new position in an environment where there has been little to no project management in the past. I am hoping to use it effectively for Portfolio Management, Resource Mgmt and Planning, Capacity / Demand Mgmt, etc... you know... the works! What would make this community amazing for you? Timely and knowledgeable answers to the questions that I have. Tools and tips for an awesome implementation. Sharing of reports and dashboards, and the criteria used to create them. Pointers on getting good at resource and capacity planning and management. How much time do you spend using Workfront on a daily basis? Presently, very little. In the future, I'd like to see us living in it. What are you passionate about (other than work)? Music. I am a guitar player and bass player. I have played in many working bands through the years, including a Woodstock-style band, a Grateful Dead cover band, a Beatles/50s band and Prog Rock band. I also enjoy discussions of truth-claims around history, philosophy, politics, and apologetics. What's your favorite joke? So this baby seal walks into a club... Or - anything in the pun category; Most of the lines from "This is Spinal Tap", Blazing Saddles, Idiocracy, Office Space, or Monty Python. Ken Layng Penn State Office of the Physical Plant

Hi, I am the Workfront system administrator for Empower Retirement/Great West. We are in the process of transitioning away from Workgroups DaVinci and setting up Workfront. How do you use Workfront? We will be using it to allow requestors from throughout the organization to request creative and delivery work from our internal agency and RFP teams. What would make this community amazing for you? I'm hoping to be able to find best practices and solutions to our challenges. How much time do you spend using Workfront on a daily basis? Right now it is up to 15 hours a day. I'm hoping that drops down to about 4 when we get it up and running. What are you passionate about (other than work)? Buffy, Veronica Mars, the MCU and knitting and crocheting. Favorite joke? The fact that the joke from The Breakfast Club doesn't have an end. Kristine Ross Great West Life & Annuity Insurance Company

Hello all! My name is Katherine Stibley and I'm the Workfront Product Owner for DMD Marketing. We are currently mid-way through our implementation phase, looking forward to learning from everyone here and a successful launch. How do you use Workfront? Workfront will be our backbone project management tool that will function for our entire organization, and I have hopes of expanding it further into general business process management needs as time goes on. What would make this community amazing for you? If everyone would tell me one thing they wished they'd known during their initial implementation. How much time do you spend using Workfront on a daily basis? As we're currently implementing, I spent about 2/3rd of my day working on things in Workfront. Post-launch I will be the admin for WF balanced with several other systems so hopefully not quite as much. What are you passionate about (other than work)? I love to race obstacle course races, bake and play video games. What's your favorite joke? Standing on top of a hill, we find a group of bulls and cows. Suddenly, there is an earthquake and all the cows lose their balance and roll to the bottom of the hill. They stand up and look indignantly up the hill to where all the bulls are calmly still standing. Marching up the hill, they demand to know why all the cows fell and all the bulls stayed standing. One of the bulls calmly replies: 'We bulls wobble, but we don't fall down.' Looking forward to getting to know everyone, Katherine Katherine Stibley DMD Marketing Corp.

I too wish for a Workfront certification option and noted skill within LinkedIn. Tammie Bouchard National Safety Council

Hi all! My name is Rochelle Webb. I am a new Workfront user and system administrator. I enjoyed the LEAP conference in Dallas and I am looking forward to picking up best practices from this community. The features I like best about Workfront are too many to name :). I love the dashboards, reporting, and overall project management capabilities of the system. I look forward to making contacts within the community. Feel free to reach out or send me a contact request. Rochelle L. Webb, DM Rochelle Webb MHMR PMO

Hello, My name is Mark Evans and I work at LifeNet Health in VA Beach, VA. I'm a Senior Engineer in Product Development mainly focusing on product/process development of allografts which are implanted for spinal fusion. How do you use Workfront? We are in the early stages of launch and really only two of the 4 franchises in our department are using it as an alpha test to gauge the effectiveness. We are looking to convert our project management from MS Project over to WF. What would make this community amazing for you? I'm a fix-it-yourself, learn-it-yourself kind of person, so anytime something is broken in my house, I look for internet videos/forum/blogs to learn how to fix it. So, this community will be great to get ideas on how to improve our instance of workfront, bounce ideas for reports/dashboards of others, get assistance in setting up various report/functions, etc. What are you passionate about (other than work)? Family, Sports What's your favorite joke? I'll just tell my 5 year old daughter favorite joke because she makes me laugh, especially when she tells it to random people at the grocery store. ----- Knock, Knock (Who's there) Broken Pencil (Broken Pencil, who?) Oh, don't bother, it's pointless. -------------------- Mark Evans LifeNet Health --------------------

My name is Christina Jarosz and I work outside of Philadelphia, PA at Ascensus. We implemented last Fall and since then have had a number of organization changes that required some additional tweaking of our instance. At the moment we have two separately divisions operating as companies, with one division rolling up to one reporting and the other something different. How do you use Workfront? We use Workfront as a marketing agency. Personally, I am the system administrator that functions as both on project initiatives and refining the system to meet the end-users needs. (We implemented roughly 9 months ago so we're just in our growing phase). The community is phenomenal as I work towards making the system work for our users better. What would make this community amazing for you? The ability to find what I've 'liked', added discussion to, or just a 'follow this thread' function. Also, if the idea exchange showed movement. So many items I've done a search for to find a dead end of 'that's an idea that's been requested. :) How much time do you spend using Workfront on a daily basis? 95%. We have two open roles at the moment for WF administration - one a senior project manager and one a traffic coordinator. What are you passionate about (other than work)? Advocating for children with disabilities / special needs community. What's your favorite joke? Who do you call when you break your toe? A tow truck! Christina Jarosz Ascensus