[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jared Zimmerman joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of UX
Hi folks, It’s my great pleasure to announce that today, Jared Zimmerman will start as Wikimedia Foundation’s Director of User Experience. As UX Director, Jared will lead the design team and have a hands-on role on the team, contributing his own design work. It’s still a small team (Brandon, Vibha, May, and Pau), but we expect to hire an additional 3-4 designers in the coming 12-18 months. Prior to Wikimedia, Jared was Principal Interaction Designer at Autodesk, where he worked with engineers, visual artists, and user experience researchers to create new software solutions for architecture and design professionals with an emphasis on AutoCAD for Mac and soon to be released online design collaboration tools. Jared has led cross-disciplinary design teams in his roles at Autodesk, Ammunition Group, and iconmobile, including creative direction. At Autodesk, he was part of the transition to agile development and helped his design teams apply those principles to their work. During his time there he worked with design management to establish designers as product owners in the scrum process, to further integrate them into the development process from start to finish, as well as teaching his team best practices for use of agile design tools. Jared has degrees in Graphic Design (BGD) and Fine Art Photography (BFA) from the Rhode Island School of Design. His photography has been in featured in publications such as Travel + Leisure Magazine, ZonaRetiro, and Huffington Post. In addition to starting in his new job, Jared is also planning his wedding in July to his fiancée Shannon. [1] In his spare time Jared is wrapping up a remodel to their home, working on his first iPhone app, experimental cooking, photographing the bay area abroad [2], and answering questions on Quora. [3] I look forward to Jared’s leadership in helping elevate a delightful, consistent and efficient User Experience to becoming a key measure of success for our work. Please join me in welcoming Jared! :-) Erik [1] http://shannonbadiee.com/ [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/spoinknet/ [3] https://www.quora.com/Jared-Zimmerman/answers -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jared Zimmerman joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of UX
Congrtz Jared Zimmerman.. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, It’s my great pleasure to announce that today, Jared Zimmerman will start as Wikimedia Foundation’s Director of User Experience. As UX Director, Jared will lead the design team and have a hands-on role on the team, contributing his own design work. It’s still a small team (Brandon, Vibha, May, and Pau), but we expect to hire an additional 3-4 designers in the coming 12-18 months. Prior to Wikimedia, Jared was Principal Interaction Designer at Autodesk, where he worked with engineers, visual artists, and user experience researchers to create new software solutions for architecture and design professionals with an emphasis on AutoCAD for Mac and soon to be released online design collaboration tools. Jared has led cross-disciplinary design teams in his roles at Autodesk, Ammunition Group, and iconmobile, including creative direction. At Autodesk, he was part of the transition to agile development and helped his design teams apply those principles to their work. During his time there he worked with design management to establish designers as product owners in the scrum process, to further integrate them into the development process from start to finish, as well as teaching his team best practices for use of agile design tools. Jared has degrees in Graphic Design (BGD) and Fine Art Photography (BFA) from the Rhode Island School of Design. His photography has been in featured in publications such as Travel + Leisure Magazine, ZonaRetiro, and Huffington Post. In addition to starting in his new job, Jared is also planning his wedding in July to his fiancée Shannon. [1] In his spare time Jared is wrapping up a remodel to their home, working on his first iPhone app, experimental cooking, photographing the bay area abroad [2], and answering questions on Quora. [3] I look forward to Jared’s leadership in helping elevate a delightful, consistent and efficient User Experience to becoming a key measure of success for our work. Please join me in welcoming Jared! :-) Erik [1] http://shannonbadiee.com/ [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/spoinknet/ [3] https://www.quora.com/Jared-Zimmerman/answers -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Moderator | Prothom-Alo Blog http://www.prothom-aloblog.com Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo http://www.prothom-alo.com Auto-confirmed, Reviewer Roll backer Editor | Bangla Wikipediahttp://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Treasurer Coordinator (PR) | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)http://www.bdosn.org Central Team MOVers | Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee (BdMO)http://www.matholympiad.org.bd ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Language Engineering] Office hour on May 8, 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT
Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join the team’s monthly office hour on May 8, 2013 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on #wikimedia-office. During this session we would be talking about some our recent activities and updates from the ongoing projects. Event details and the general agenda is mentioned below. See you all at the IRC office hour! Thanks Runa Event Details: === # Date: May 8, 2013 # Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT #IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net Agenda: # Introductions # Universal Language Selector - Development updates, Deployment schedule # MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release # Maven program - upcoming events # GSoC update - we are participating in GSoC # Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org before the event and can be addressed during the office-hour. [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
