Re: [Foundation-l] Introducing our Usability Team

Please join me welcoming the new members of the Usability Project Team. Arash Boostani, a fourteen-year tech-veteran from Genentech, has joined the project team as a Senior Software Developer.  Arash also previously directed the development team of an environmental non-profit directory service called WiserEarth, which runs on collaborative software similar to MediaWiki.  At WiserEarth, Arash led the way in making the software available as open-source software for the development community. As of February 1st, Trevor Parscal was internally transferred from the Wikimedia tech team to the position of Software Developer on the Usability project.  Trevor has over eight years experience as an independent consultant in both software development and user interface design.  After joining WMF, Trevor worked on data center management tools, amongst other development projects. Parul Vora, a former resident designer of the Design Innovation Team at Yahoo! (Yhaus) and researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, joined the team.  Parul brings a unique combined talent of user experience research, design, and technology to the team.  She has worked on various research and design projects such as experimental information interfaces and an event-based media sharing application. At Intel Research Labs, she researched open-source physical computing platforms, their sensors and actuators, and visual programming languages for mobile phone platforms. We are currently interviewing candidates for the second software developer position. It is my honor and privilege to work with Arash, Trevor and Parul on the Wikipedia Usability Initiative. I am excited to have the mixture of great talents on the team. Naoko Komura Program Manager Wikimedia Foundation -- Support Free Knowledge:  http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l