Introducing myself
 

I thought I would drop by and say hello.


My name is Adrian Harris, I work for vBulletin, I think the title on my desk says "Senior Operations Manager", but it essentially means I am responsible for overseeing the business side of vBulletin which includes customer service, marketing etc. etc.

To be a little self indulgent, a bit about who I am.
I am Australian (Tasmanian to be precise :) ), but live in Los Angeles and work in vBulletin's head office, I got "into" vBulletin back in 2004 when I was made a moderator of a vBulletin community (ford-trucks.com) I was a member of... it progressed to being a super-moderator, then an administrator of the site.
Internet Brands (vBulletin's parent company) purchased the site, and I was offered a position to oversee the community side all of their automotive forums, of which there is about 90 - I left my "day job" at Ford Motor Company and moved to the US. Fast track another 2 years and I was presented with an opportunity to work on the vBulletin team - which I jumped at!
I sadly don't have experience with programming, apart from CNC Machine code and a bit of C programming for robots, I have a healthy appreciation for it. My designing experience is limited to Microsoft Paint - where I can expertly craft the dogs breakfast of your choice :p


Anyhow - I would like to drop by every now and then (if you will have me!), as I think you have a great community here, and I would love to participate and see how we (vBulletin) can help support it further.

I would love to hear a little about all of you!

Adrian

oh no, you are not permitted to commit here... we're not worth watching over...

rofl

... nah, just a joke from the black lamb of the gang... :)

btw, i do think "cross site" thing is overrated... rofl

Adrian, welcome to vB.org! :)

Good to see somebody from the IB/vBS mothership checking in. :D

Welcome to forum.

Thanks for the welcomes :) ha - most don't get out alive :D
I was a volunteer up till I moved to the US to oversee all of the Internet Brands auto communities :)

Welcome Adrain..

About 580,000 members :)
I still admin the site today.

No - its a US based site: www.ford-trucks.com/forums/

I became the Australian contingent that talked a bit funny :p

So... I notice it still runs 3.x... ;)

lol - some of our sites run IPB even ;)
www.5series.net

Blasphemy!!

Isn't it just ;)

actually, the best way to keep the enemy safe is to keep it close... :)

You should have been here all along Adrian... this is where the magic happens ;) :p

I gotta agree with that. :)

I just hope we don't scare him off to soon. :D

Welcome to vB.org Adrian :)

:D

I hope not either although tbo I don't take him for the type that would tuck tail and run so I don't think we have anything to worry about ;).

He's a keeper imo... as my wife says about me on occasion :D.

Hey welcome to vB.oRG , that's quite a story i'd say.. but welcome to US helpfully you like LA , i lived there for 3 years.. back in NJ , will get back there soon , cant beat the weather...

Glad to see you around , i might need your paint services sometime in the future...

haha

My sites run IPB

hi

Welcome to the forums Adrian
You've always been very helpful to me over at the .com :)

GASP! It's mutiny. It's a betrayal. It's... Perhaps even espionage. LOL
okay... those are the first thoughts that went through my mind... Anyway - I say welcome to vB.org Adrian :)

Jacquii.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/9499/welcome38gk.gif

Welcome to the org, sir. ;)

btw, if nobody notices, he does not need any welcome... he's here for over 2 years now, he just "introduce" himself, ... like any spambot...

rofl

jk

It's only polite that when someone introduces himself, we as a community "Welcome" with open arms - otherwise we would appear as rude asshats :P -- It'll be interesting to see his spam though hahaa

Ouch Nexia!

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone :)I don't think there is a place on earth that has better weather. It was 85 deg's here on the beach on the weekend, and low 70's yesterday.
I don't know how I am going to struggle through this winter thing... :p
haha - I was thinking the same thing :D

Are you here to oversee changes to vb.org Adrian ?

No.
Here to help and support where I can.

The people that will oversee changes are here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=254887 :)

Hey, I know you! :p

Nice to be here.. :D

"hello everybody.....
i am saim and new here..... just wana get and share some interesting things..... so share with me
saying welcome to all..... nice to be here..... glad to meet you all"

mlmleadsystempro

Hello Adrian, do me a favor and toss a squishy stress ball across the room at Andy :D.

BTW: Welcome to the party.

I'm new here, just looking for some good forums to give my two cents in and also for some answers. I've been asking about the best hard drive out there because I'm going to be getting one but not one answer. Thankfully there's an internet and I can do research. I just wanted user experience. But yeah my names Kelly and it's nice to meet you all!

Adrian Welcome to vBulletin.org : ) ...
however, I have a question, you are married? :D
Los Angeles is ok but you gotta go to New York, lol :p

P.S: Adrian, why ford-trucks.com is vBulletin 3.x?

Oh boy, :erm:.

(I made this mistake too... turns out "Adrian" is also a guy's name. Who knew?)

Newbie here, nice to meet you all.