730 Days & 23 trips to Sydney!

Posted: January 13, 2016 | Author: frankarr | Filed under: Personal, Telstra, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Today marks 2 years into my time at Telstra , and it’s really zipped along.

I even got inspired to get a “simpsons-style” cartoon of me – the orange hat is a nice touch I think.

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The last couple of these types of posts I’ve done have included a bit of a recap – 12 Months In & 546 Days so I will spare the look back, suffice to say a fair bit of stuff got done – some visible such as T.DEV , speaker at I ♥ APIS in San Jose, sponsor at Web Directions 2015, judge at Hackfood, author on Telstra Exchange; and some not so, but just as important!!

I also made a a video to be used for internal training – here’s sneak peak

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Oh, and I’ve had 23 trips to Sydney over these past 2 years. Yes, I did the maths.

OK then, so there are a few things coming up that I am looking forward to…

Above All Human – I missed it last year, so I am keen to attend this year.
Muru-D Sydney Class 3 – I was at the recent boot camp helping some of these startups get ready and I cant wait to see what they produce!!
API Days Australia in Melbourne, March 1 & 2, with a host of great speakers

What else? There’s a few other things, but I’ll keep’em under my hat for the time being. It revolves around how developers took over the world and how we can respond to that.

And did i mentioned I’ve had 23 trips to Sydney !!

546 Days

Posted: July 13, 2015 | Author: frankarr | Filed under: Telstra | Tags: API, T.DEV, Telstra | 1 Comment

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Today marks 18 months I’ve been at Telstra. Feels just like the other day I posted about 12 Months In

The last 18 months is best summed up like this – the first 6 months was spent working on the API strategy, the next 6 months was to sell the strategy, and the last 6 months to implement. So we now find ourselves at the start of the next phase.

We’ve also been a bit public over the last few months, first at APIDays in Sydney, and then I ♥ APIS, which means we got some coverage:

I’ve also been involved in a bunch of hackathons – from participating in them, running them and being a judge

So, as I had said earlier, we’re now at the start of the next phase. The developer portal is open. We have a few public APIs, and we’ve have had great community support, with blog posts, articles, and code samples.

Great to see developers being open to using these APIs and giving feedback

Onto the next 546 days…..

12 Months In

Posted: January 13, 2015 | Author: frankarr | Filed under: Personal, Telstra | 2 Comments

It’s been 12 months since I started with Telstra. My pass still worked after a few weeks off, so that’s a good sign.

Telstra loves APIS

Anyways…. looking back on the past 12 months, lots happened …..

the group I joined changed names from GAP to TSG
got to meet some wonderful folks at muru-d
helped out with the pilot for codeclub australia
met a bunch of passionate API folks
went to SF for the I ♥ APIs 2014 conference
created the #stickercolumn
was a guest on the 100th edition of the franklyspeaking podcast
spent time with lots of API platform vendors – which has been strange for me, as I spent such a long time with a technology vendor
got to work with a bunch of really smart people
plus a bunch of other stuff that has made the past 12 months zoom by!

Enough looking back – time to look forward. Onward to the next 12.

So far the job has been pretty much inward looking, as we worked to get a API platform in place & get some APIs on-boarded to the platform.

But that’s all about about to change!

I have an upcoming talk at APIDays Sydney, titled “Telstra’s Path to API Enlightenment” and I’ll use that to describe the journey we’ve been on. (oh, and speaking of journey, I saw a great tweet recently by Aussienick which describes a similar journey)

Technology Project Management explained in one picture

So here’s to the next twelve months and beyond.

2014 in review

Posted: December 30, 2014 | Author: frankarr | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.