welcome to the team, you're jumping in at a pretty awesome time. talk soon
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Dario Taraborelli < [email protected]> wrote: > welcome Matt, I'm excited to have you onboard with E3. > > I'm a huge fan of ProveIt and have a secret plan to make it totally > obsolete ;) > Chat next week? > > Dario > > On Dec 7, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Terry Chay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matthew Flaschen has > joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Features Engineer. > > Before joining us, Matthew was working at Entech Consulting doing a whole > bunch of web-projects from electricity utility sites to a cell phone store. > He received his B.S. in Computer Science as recently as December 2010 from > Georgia Tech. > > At Georgia Tech, he was the lead developer of the ProveIt[1] Gadget which > is live on English Wikipedia which is “probably the most advanced and > easy-to-use referencing tool available to editors.” He’s also been a > Wikipedia editor ([[User:Superm401]]) since 2004 and administrator since > 2006. He hit the ground running with the Experimentation team so fast that > he was still being interviewed when one of the team members wrote: “his > integration with the team has been so seamless that I’ve to remind myself a > few times that he is not yet a bona-fide employee.” > > His first official day actually was on December 3rd because my team > pressured me to start paying him. :-) He is working with the > Experimentation team on extensions (such as Onboarding[2]) and core > functionality. Beyond that he’s very interested in using tools to improve > our development process, so I won’t be surprised if Ori steals him so they > can Pinky-and-the-Brain other projects at the WMF. > > Matt lives in Philadelphia. He will be working remotely, but is working > in San Francisco all next week (starting Monday the 10th). > > Please join me in a belated welcome of Matthew Flaschen to the Wikimedia > Foundation. :-) > > Take care, > terry > > [1]: http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/ > [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians > > terry chay 최태리 > Director of Features Engineering > Wikimedia Foundation > “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge.* That's our commitment.*” > > p: +1 (415) 839-6885 x6832 > m: +1 (408) 480-8902 > e: [email protected] > i: http://terrychay.com/ > w: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tychay > aim: terrychay > > _______________________________________________ > ee mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee > > > > _______________________________________________ > ee mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee > > -- Ryan Faulkner Research Analyst - Editor Engagement Experimentation (e3) Wikimedia Foundation mobile: (415) 793-5086 office: (415) 839-6885 ext 6726 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
