Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matt Walker has
joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer.
Before joining us, Matt was a software engineer at Rockwell Collins
Control Technologies developing “a DO-178B level A qualified Real-Time
Operating System in C and PowerPC assembly.” (Ask him about it.) He got his
dual B.S. in EE and CS from the University of Tulsa with a minor in Mathematics.
On the side, Matt enjoys tech theatre, glass blowing, SCUBA diving,
hiking, and bicycling so I’m not sure how he’ll fit in with his move to the Bay
Area. During the reference check, the department chair of Electrical
Engineering at his uni regaled me with stories about a time lapse video project
he self-started and having to sign a permission slip for a high school prom.
His first official day will be on July 9th assuming he survives his
cross-country trip through Wyoming and the Dakotas. (I’ve seen the trailers for
Longmire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmire_(TV_series)> so it’s not a
given — Wyoming sounds like a very dangerous place.) He will be working with
the FR-Tech team trying to establish the lower bounds for the Ballmer Peak
<http://xkcd.com/323/> during their late night programming sessions; Katie and
Peter will be establishing the Long Tail.
He’s also great friends with Peter Gehres, but we won’t hold that
against him. :-) Please join me in welcoming Matt to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Take care,
Terry
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