Hello All!
I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has hired it's first
Director of Technical Operations. CT Woo began work at WMF on December 1st and will be
reporting to our CTO, Danese Cooper.
As Director of Technical Ops, his primary responsibility will be working to provide for a
stable, secure, documented, scalable and responsive systems environment. He'll be
working with the rest of the Operations team to assess the current state process of
technical projects, short and long term risk to the technical infrastructure and work
towards providing solutions and systems for failsafes and redundancy. He will also be a
great resource for guidance and mentorship for the operations team. For a full description
of the role, please visit -
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Director_of_Technical_Oper….
CT Woo comes to us with a strong background in Technical Operations and Software
Development. He is joining us from
Freshbrain.org where he was a founding member and was
running the Engineering and IT functions. Freshbrain is a non-profit entity with the
mission to enhance the education and the enrichment of teens in the areas of business and
technology through its community building website. Prior to that, CT worked at SurfControl
Plc, an Internet Security Company, where he was in-charge of IT as well as Internet
Infrastructure Engineering. CT also spent a number of years at Sun Microsystems, holding
various Engineering and IT positions including Director of Software Development, Director
of IT as well as Director of IT Operations. CT was educated in Malaysia, UK and US and
has worked in several countries outside of US. He was an active Boys Scout in his teens
and now continues with working as a volunteer in the local scout troop.
We're very fortunate to have CT join us. He's going to be extremely instrumental
as we build out the Tech department, specifically General Ops. He's joining us at a
time of growth of the Foundation, the projects and their reach. We're excited he
accepted our offer and the challenge we placed in front of him. Normally we'd get
this announcement out prior to the start date and unfortunately that wasn't possible
this time with everyone's extensive travel schedules. So hopefully many of you have
gotten a chance to know more about CT in person and for those of you who have not, I
really encourage you to take some time and meet him.
Please join me in welcoming CT to the Tech Department and to WMF. We are very extremely
happy to have him join us.
Cyn Skyberg
CTCO, Wikimedia Foundation
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