Good news! Damon, a warm welcome to Wikimedia and to these lists. Sam
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Lila Tretikov <l...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice > President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. > Please join us in welcoming him to the team. > > The VPE role will be crucial to further developing and maintaining the > technology that supports the very core of the Wikimedia movement, and > ensuring the development, scale, and stability of the MediaWiki > architecture. > > > Damon joins us as part of planned growth of our product and engineering > teams, first announced in November 2012. As we have grown, we need > dedicated focus on product and engineering as separate departments, to > ensure development of best practices like performance engineering, > continuous delivery, A/B testing, software re-architecture, UI/UX work, and > user research. Erik Moeller, who filled the role of VP for both product and > engineering since 2011, led in the creation of this new role and was > essential to the search process. From today onward, Erik will focus on his > role as VP of Product and Strategy and Deputy Director of the WMF, while > Damon will take over leadership of the Engineering team; both will report > to me as part of the c-level team. > > Damon has a unique track record of managing large platform rollouts using > distributed teams like ours, while understanding the essential role of > community contributions and working in a transparent, open source > environment. These skills and experiences will be invaluable in his work > here at the Foundation. It’s unusual to find someone who understands us so > well, and so I want to thank the many people from across the organization, > especially in the engineering, product, and human resources teams, who have > been involved in making this search successful. > > We are very happy to have Damon on board. His proven track record of > managing large platform rollouts using distributed teams like ours, while > understanding the essential role of community contributions and working in > a transparent, open source environment, is unique and invaluable as part of > our movement. > > We’ll be sending around a copy of the press release shortly. You’ll also be > be able to meet Damon, and ask him questions, this Thursday at our monthly > Metrics Meeting > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings>. > Please join us there! > > Please join me in welcoming Damon. > > Lila > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
