Excellent news. Welcome Victoria !
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Le 02/11/2016 à 19:49, Samantha Lien a écrit :
This press release is available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_we…
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_welcomes_Victoria_Coleman_as_Chief_Technology_Officer>
And also as a post on the Wikimedia blog here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-chief-technology-off…
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-chief-technology-officer/>
Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Victoria Coleman as Chief Technology Officer
Victoria brings more than 20 years of experience leading development and
strategy for complex technologies at scale
San Francisco, California November 2, 2016 – The Wikimedia Foundation is
pleased to announce Victoria Coleman as our new Chief Technology
Officer. As the Foundation's senior technology executive, Victoria will
be responsible for setting the vision and strategy for technology and
operations behind the Wikimedia projects, in cooperation with the global
communities of volunteer contributors, users, and researchers. Her first
day is 7 November 2016.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization behind
Wikipedia, one of the world’s largest and most popular web properties.
The organization also operates 11 other Wikimedia projects
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en#What_free_knowledge_projects_do_you_support.3F>,
including MediaWiki, the open-source wiki software that powers Wikimedia
projects and many other online collaborations. Together, the Wikimedia
sites are visited by hundreds of millions of people each month from
every corner of the globe.
The Chief Technology Officer oversees the organization’s Technology
department <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology> and
technical roadmap, and is responsible for the evolution, development,
and delivery of our core platforms and architecture. In this role,
Victoria will work closely with the Wikimedia Foundation’s technology
teams to ensure an accessible and performant technology infrastructure
and anticipate scale and capability challenges for the Wikimedia projects.
“Victoria brings the right combination of deep technical knowledge,
operational expertise, and the steady hand that is needed in this unique
role, ” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation. “Her experience leading development for a wide array of
technology platforms at scale, as well as her love for education and
passion for our mission, make her an excellent addition to our
leadership team.”
Victoria has more than 20 years of experience in consumer and enterprise
technology. She is a strong leader with expertise in strategy and
development in software engineering, mobile platforms, connected
devices, cyber security, and web services, and has been a longtime
advocate for innovation in education and the public sector.
“Over the past 15 years, Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects have
radically changed how people access knowledge,” Victoria said. “But the
vast majority of people today still don’t use or have access to these
resources. As we look ahead, we’ll consider how we can grow and evolve
our technologies to support the Wikimedia vision: a world where every
person has access to all knowledge. I look forward to collaborating with
the existing team at the Foundation and the Wikimedia communities in
this important work.”
Most recently, Victoria served as Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer for the Connected Home Division of Technicolor, where
she was responsible for innovation strategy, product management,
technology roadmaps, and technical due diligence for acquisitions and
partnerships. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Research and
Development at Harman, she led the core technology platforms of the
Infotainment Division including systems and software, media, tuner,
navigation, connectivity, and advanced driver assist systems.
As Vice President Engineering at Yahoo! Inc., where she led Yahoo!
membership, web presentation technologies such as the Yahoo! User
Interface Library, mobile web services, notification services, backend
SDKs including accounts and messaging, mobile application testing, and
the Yahoo! Developer Network. Before joining Yahoo!, Victoria served as
Vice President, Emerging Technologies at Nokia, Vice President, Software
Engineering of Hewlett-Packard’s webOS global business unit, and Vice
President of Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology. She has also
held director roles at Intel and SRI International, in security
technology and system design, respectively.
Before joining SRI International, Victoria was a Reader in Computer
Science for two years at Queen Mary and Westfield College and a Lecturer
in Computer Science at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College for six
years, both at the University of London. She designed the software
engineering and theoretical strands of the Royal Holloway undergraduate
computer science program. She also created the Masters program on
Dependable Computer System, and taught undergraduate and graduate
classes in information security, operating systems, software
engineering, and dependable distributed systems.
Victoria has also been selected to participate on numerous advisory
councils in higher education and the public sector. She serves on the
advisory Board of the Santa Clara University Department of Computer
Engineering. She is also a Senior Advisor to the Director of the
University of California Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology
Research in the Interest of Society. She serves as a volunteer advisor
on the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board and
is a member of Lockheed Martin’s Technology Advisory Group. She is also
an advisor to the Automotive Security Review Board, a nonprofit
consortium aiming to make connected cars more cyber secure.
Victoria has deep familiarity with open source software development,
having witnessed the ascendancy of the Unix movement first as a student
and subsequently as an instructor. She passionately believes in the
power of open source and has been actively involved in the development
of LiMo (renamed Tizen), the first truly open, hardware independent,
Linux-based mobile operating system. Having used Webkit as the basis of
the application runtime of webOS, she is also very familiar with
leveraging open source for building products.
Victoria received her B.Sc and M.Sc in Electronic Computer Systems and
Computer Aided Logic Design respectively from the University of Salford,
UK and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester,
UK. She holds four patents and is the author of more than 60 articles
and books. Born in Greece, she has worked with teams around the world,
including in Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Finland, Germany, India,
Israel, Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports
and operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. Wikipedia serves roughly
half a billion people each month. Every month roughly 80,000 people edit
Wikipedia and its sister projects, collectively creating, improving, and
maintaining its nearly 40 million articles across hundreds of languages
-- this all makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties in
the world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation
is a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and
grants.
About Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the world’s free knowledge resource. It is a collaborative
creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people from
around the globe since it was created in 2001: anyone can edit it, at
any time. Wikipedia is offered in hundreds of languages containing a
total of nearly 40 million articles. Wikimedia and its sister projects
are the largest collection of free knowledge in human history.
Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact
Juliet Barbara
(415) 839-6885 <tel:%28415%29%20839-6885>
press(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:press@wikimedia.org>
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Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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San Francisco, CA 94105
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