Thanks, Rob -- and welcome Aaron! We are delighted to have you join our multimedia team for the next six months.
Your commendable gift of time and expertise is much appreciated. I am equally insipired by your generous offer, your impressive background -- as well as as our shared connections to french and swiss culture :) We all look forward to working with you! All the best, Fabrice On Nov 18, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm thrilled to announce that Aaron Arcos has agreed to volunteer for > the Wikimedia Foundation as a developer with our Multimedia team > through May. Aaron most recently worked at Google Switzerland (from > 2005 until August 2013), where he was a frontend software engineer and > UX designer on several projects such as AdWords Template Center, > SafeSearchLock, GMail Themes and the recent GCalendar redesign. He > also served as a process and release master, in charge of defining, > improving and enforcing their development, testing and release > processes, and taught classes at Google about project management, user > experience and Google culture. > > He decided to leave Google, and to give back to the community in a > number of ways, working for free for projects that do good for > humanity (like us!) His first stop was at nairobits.com, a project > that provides the economically-disadvantaged youth in Nairobi with web > design and programming skills, teaching PHP and Javascript. He plans > to return there in May. After that, he has other organizations that > he'd like to work with. > > Prior to Google, Aaron worked at IMTF.com in Switzerland, Techasi > Ingénierie in Paris, Yahoo! and Electronics for Imaging in the Bay > Area. > > He earned his Masters in Computer Engineering at University of > Washington and has a BS in Computer Engineering from UNAM in Mexico > City. > > Aaron will be visiting the San Francisco office while he's > volunteering for us. He's "aarcos" on Freenode (and will often be on > #wikimedia-multimedia), and his email address is > [email protected]. Welcome Aaron! > > Rob > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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