Impressive resume,
Welcome Victoria.
On 03 Nov 2016 11:44 AM, olaniyanshola@yahoo.com wrote:
Wow!!!
This is a great news. Welcome Victoria on board.
Best Regards Olushola
Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Original Message From: Tim Moritz Hector Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2016 08:25 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Reply To: Wikimedia Mailing List Cc: Victoria Coleman Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer
A warm welcome to Wikimedia also from Germany, Victoria! I'm happy to see you joining the movement and wish you a good start at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Best regards Tim Moritz Hector
Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | D-10963 Berlin http://www.wikimedia.de
2016-11-02 22:50 GMT+01:00 Damon Sicore damon@sicore.com:
Victoria,
This is great news! I believe your talent, knowledge, and insight will boost and elevate the WMF community, and I know your positive personality will be warmly welcomed.
Yours faithfully, Damon Sicore https://damon.sicore.com https://damon.sicore.com/ 6E98 FBFB D192 D325 B85D D4FF FD2A 20ED DC1D 3975
On Nov 2, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi everyone,
I’m excited today to introduce the Wikimedia Foundation's new Chief Technology Officer, Victoria Coleman. Victoria’s first day is November
7,
and she will be based in the Foundation's office in San Francisco.
Victoria comes to us with more than 20 years of experience in consumer
and
enterprise technology. And as you’ll learn quickly when you start
getting
to know her, she is deeply passionate about the importance of
education,
and how the Wikimedia mission advances education and equity around the world.
When we started looking for a CTO for the Foundation, projects, and communities, we knew we were looking for a unique person - someone with
the
experience to lead confidently, and the confidence to embrace open collaboration in leadership. We were looking for someone with a track record of success leading strategy and execution for technology
platforms
at scale, someone will be an effective mentor and leader for our
Technology
department, and a strong partner to Product teams. We needed someone
who
would thrive in our culture and be an inclusive collaborator with staff
and
community. We agreed that Victoria met these requirements and then
some.
Victoria has deep experience across consumer and enterprise technology fields and is a longtime advocate for innovation in education and the public sector. She has seen and done many things in her career, from mobility platforms to connected devices to cyber security to web
services
at scale. She brings operational excellence in strategic long-term planning, execution, delivery, and running large distributed teams.
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. Before this, she 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.
Victoria also has deep familiarity with open source software
development,
having witnessed the rise of the Unix movement first as a student and
later
as an instructor. She has been actively involved in the development of
the
Linux-based LiMo (renamed Tizen). She passionately believes in the
power
of
open source and is familiar with how a commitment to open source strengthens platforms and products at an integral level.
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 is
the
author of over 60 articles and books (!). 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.
One thing that struck many of us throughout our conversations was Victoria's commitment to volunteering her knowledge and expertise
outside
of her daily professional activities, serving on advisory councils in higher education and the public sector. She is on the advisory Board of
the
Santa Clara University Department of Computer Engineering, and 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 both Lockheed Martin’s Technology Advisory Group and on the United States Department of
Defense’s
Defense Science Board where she offers advice and recommendations on science, technology, manufacturing, and acquisition processes.
As a native of Greece, Victoria is interested in becoming a contributor
on
Greek Wikipedia, and getting to know our colleagues and communities
over
the coming months.
As many of you know, the CTO search has been an intensive process and
our
highest recruiting priority in recent months. Dozens of people from
across
the organization contributed to this effort, most notably the CTO
hiring
committee, which included directors and senior staff from the
Technology
department. Representatives from the C-level, Technology, and Product
teams
also participated in interviews, panels, and lunches. In total, we
reviewed
nearly 900 candidates, advancing 190 to recruiter screens, and
reviewing
70
with the hiring committee.
I want to personally thank every single person who was involved in this process. The focus and dedication of the Foundation’s recruiting team
were
remarkable, as were the diligence and commitment of the many staff and volunteers who supported this search.
More information on Victoria’s full background can be found in our blog post announcing her arrival: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/ victoria-coleman-chief-technology-officer/
Victoria is on CC - please join me in welcoming her to the Foundation
and
our movement!
Warmly, Katherine
An on-wiki version of this message is available for translation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/ Introducing_Victoria_Coleman_-_Chief_Technology_Officer
-- Katherine Maher
Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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