This year was my second full year working for Veeam and my role being global, requires me to travel to locations and events where my team presents content and engages with technical and social communities. We also travel to various Veeam related training and enablement events throughout the year as well as customer and partner meetings where and when required. This time around, I knew what to expect of a travel year and like 2017, I found this year to be just right in terms of time away working verses being at home working and also being with the family.

There where lots of highlights this year but the one that stands out was Michael Cade and myself presenting at VMworld for the second year in a row. The big difference this year was that we presented around the automating and orchestration of Veeam on VMware Cloud on AWS…to have the live demo work flawlessly after months of work was extremely satisfying. Other highlights include presenting at VeeamON and the regional VeeamOn Forums and Tours and two trips to Prague to visit our new R&D headquarters and be part of the Veeam Vanguard Summit for 2018.

So…what does all that travel look like?

Being homed in Perth, Western Australia I’m pretty much in the most isolated capital city in the world, meaning any flight is going to be significant. Even just flying to Sydney takes four to five hours…the same time it takes me to fly to Singapore. I love looking at stats and there are a number of tools out there that manage flight info. I use Tripit to keep track of all my tips, and there are now a number of sites and mobile application that let you import your flight data to analyse.

With that my raw stats for 2018 are shown below:

Amazingly the numbers where very similar to 2017 however I covered a lot more kilo meters. 102 days away equates to 27.9% travel which is very manageable. Of those days I spent nearly 17 days total fly time in the air which when you think about it is amazing in it’s self. I took 68 flights with 27 domestic and 41 international.

I made it, 7.4x around the Earth, 0.77x to the moon and 0.00199 to the sun.

A new app I discovered this year was App In The Air. It’s the best i’ve used and provides some interesting stats and also helps compile the travel year video embedded above. The summary below gives me great insight into the travel year.

So that’s a quick round up of what my year looked like living the life of a Global Technologist at Veeam. Let’s see how 2019 shapes up!