FYI - belatedly forwarding after internal announcement:

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Hi folks,

Guillaume Paumier has been Technical Communications Manager in the Engineering Community Team since early 2011. In this role, he's been instrumental in developing the monthly engineering reports (including all the underlying infrastructure on mediawiki.org), vetting and writing technical blog posts and social media updates, and most recently, co-launching the weekly tech newsletter and keeping it running.

Guillaume's role is changing, and he will shift to my department as part of the Engineering/Product department division. He will report directly to me as Senior Analyst, and I will deploy him to projects of strategic importance that require his expertise (any Guillaume deployments will not be noted on the deployments calendar). Guillaume will continue to put some of his time towards the tech newsletters and reports for the time being (though we're considering to merge the two), but other communications responsibilities will be handled by Katherine's team.

What does it mean to be a Senior Analyst? As a long-time Wikimedian (since 2005), Guillaume understands many of Wikimedia's workflows deeply. As a self-confessed OCD introvert, he loves documenting, analyzing; breaking apart things and putting them back together in novel ways. He's awesome at information architecture, and at really thinking through all the options to solve a complex product problem.

In other words, when I see a product that benefits from deep community expertise, I can throw Guillaume at it and he'll help. :)

The first project Guillaume is taking on in this new role is the file metadata cleanup drive, preparatory to the Structured Data work the multimedia team will focus on in coming months. You can read more about it here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive

Finally, it's my pleasure to announce that Guillaume is also relocating (back!) to the San Francisco Bay Area. Please join me in congratulating Guillaume in this new role and wishing him a stress-free move to San Francisco.

Warmly,

Erik