Welcome Jeremy! We always need more help, especially in fundraising! (Not that I'm biased)
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Alolita Sharma <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > Please join me in welcoming Jeremy Postlethwaite as a Software > Engineer in WMF’s Features Engineering team. Jeremy’s focus area will > be Fundraising. He will be joining Arthur Richards, Ryan Kaldari and > Katie Horn on the Fundraising engineering team to help make this > year’s fundraising drive successful. > > Jeremy Postlethwaite has been a developer since 1996. He has been a > baker, a candy maker, a chef and a zymurgist. Fascinated with > technology, Jeremy has developed robotics, worked on nuclear energy > devices, such as the Z-machine, in conjunction with Lawrence Livermore > National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory. While working at > the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), he developed code > to model plasmas in atomic physics. Jeremy is also interested in > artificial intelligence and is developing code in this area. > > Jeremy tries to be an environmentalist and a humanitarian. And in > doing so, he tries to live by the words of the late and great sophist, > George Carlin, “If you think there is a solution, you are part of the > problem.” This helps to keep him on level ground! In times of > frustration, he tries to remember what Socrates said, “knowledge is > recollection,” meaning all the answers already exist, but it is our > duty to find them. > > Jeremy also tries to remember that not all problems in the world can > be solved with a computer program. He is happiest when developing > applications on his computer, researching quantum mechanics and fusion > technology or best of all, camping in the redwoods with his wife, of > almost nine years, Christi and his three children: Marissa, Jeremiah > and Isaac. > > He has contributed several thousand hours to Open Source projects, > including personal endeavors, helping others to use technology and > working on Zend Framework. > > Jeremy does not own a television, but has several computers. He wishes > he had more time to read. Jeremy’s biggest problem with being human is > that he has to sleep. > > Drop by and say hello to Jeremy online or in person at WMF in San > Francisco. > > Welcome Jeremy! > > -- > Alolita Sharma > Director, Features Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- James Alexander Business Analyst - Fundraising Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
