[Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] [Announce]: Mark Bergsma promotion to Operations Engineer Programs Manager

[Erik Moeller]

FYI, also posted to the Wikimedia tech blog at:

http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/1033/

(EPM stands for Engineering Program Manager.)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Danese Cooper <dcooper at wikimedia.org>
Date: 2010/9/14
Subject: [Wikitech-l] [Announce]: Mark Bergsma promotion to Operations
Engineer Programs Manager
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


Please join me in congratulating Mark Bergsma on his promotion last week
to Operations EPM.  Mark has been a volunteer since 2004, and a paid
Network Engineer on our team since August 2006.  He's been helping us
with our extreme scaling issues (by debugging and tuning our Squid
setup, creating our Netherlands caching center, and generally developing
our network strategy) since the very beginning. For some time now Mark
has been unofficially in charge of managing the entire Ops Team's
deliverables including designing and implementing our new Primary Data
Center in Ashburn, VA, and the other Ops activities mentioned at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects>.  Mark has expressed an
interest in gaining some experience with people management skills as a
logical next step in his career, and to that end we will gradually add
direct reports under Mark over the next year, starting with the Data
Center Ops crew.  He will continue to report to me until we hire a
Director of Technical Operations.

I know you will do all you can to support Mark in his new role.

Danese Cooper
CTO, Wikimedia Foundation

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