Blog it Forward – Johann Fößleitner

First of all, thank you Damir for tagging me in your Blog. Here we go:

Who am I?

When I was 10 years old, I decided to become a software developer – and to everyone’s surprise I really did become that! During the job interview my first employer asked me: “Do you know SAP R/2?”. And I said “No”. He said: “You are hired”.

These days, I’m celebrating my 30^th SAP anniversary. Unbelievable, right?

I live in Vienna, the beautiful capital of Austria and truly one of the most livable cities in the world. I can confirm that! Did you know, that the “Vienna Zoo” (Tiergarten Schönbrunn) is the oldest continuously operating zoo in the world? Founded as an imperial menagerie in 1752!

I am engaged and a father of two.

In my free time I like to go biking or hiking and I love going to live concerts. It doesn’t matter if it’s Metallica, Alice Cooper or a little unknown band.

From time to time I take my old computers (Philips Videopac; Commodore 16/64/128) out of the basement and play the good old games. I love these funny old games.

I help organize the SAP Inside Track Vienna and the SAP Stammtisch Wien. I regularly organize SAP Code Jams or other SAP Community Events and sometimes I do German webinars about the exciting world of SAP and ABAP.

Together with Andreas in Barcelona	Don’t forget #ABAPsNotDead
Mountain biking in Whistler	With Ingo starting a SAP CodeJam

1. What do you enjoy most in your work and why?

Sometimes I feel like an artist. If you create a new application, you can bring a lot of your own ideas into the final solution. I enjoy working on a perfect, well designed user interface. And at the end, if the work is done, I (usually) feel very comfortable.

And I like to learn something new. If you want to be successful in the IT Industry, you have to improve yourself regularly. I love to educate myself; I love to get to know new topics.

2. Which 5 things do you absolutely want to achieve in life?

I think you always have to have new goals in life. My list is always expanding and I have many more items on my list, but here are 5 of them!

• Become a software developer -> Done!
• Stand on the Empire State Building -> Done!
• Become a father -> Done! (Twice! 😉 )
• Travel to Alaska -> Pending!
• Write a book -> Pending!

3. Recommend resources of information that helped you in your work

Of course I use a lot more resources. Let me just mention a few very important ones:

• SAP Community – https://developers.sap.com/
• Open SAP – https://open.sap.com/
• SAP Press Books – https://www.sap-press.com/
• SAP Developer Live Streams / Videos – https://www.youtube.com/user/sapdevs/videos
• Twitter Accounts – Check out my “I follow” list on twitter
• And of course my phone to call my colleagues and friends.

A few months earlier we had a (german) webinar about this topic. Check out this blog for more details.

My nominations

I would really like to know more about you guys:

• Christian Punz – Can you surprise me with something new?
• Ludwig Stockbauer-Muhr – Your ADT extensions are awesome!
• Andreas Gautsch – Hopefully we can meet again in Barcelona next year!

Please choose at least three of questions from Susan Keohan list

What is Blog it Forward?

Susan Keohan introduced this Blogging Adventure for all of us with her Starting Blog – Blog it Forward – the Sequel!