New subject: Please welcome Joe Matazzoni as Product Manager, Collaboration

23 Nov 2015

Everyone,

It's my pleasure to welcome Joe Matazzoni to the Editing department as the
new product manager for the Collaboration team from today. Joe will help
the team develop aligned with the needs of our editors, prioritizing and
shaping the improvements we're making to notifications, watchlists, change
tracking, discussions and more. He replaces Danny Horn, who is now helping
the Community Tech team.

Joe has had a long career in digital publishing and media, particularly in
public broadcasting, first at NPR, where he helped rebuild the Web site and
then founded the Arts & Life section, and more recently at KQED, where he
created an Emmy-winning arts video team. Joe has a master’s degree in
interactive telecommunications from NYU and a background in UX design. He
was the director of UX at the Wall Street Journal, where he helped lead a
complete site and CMS redesign and relaunch.

After many years in New York and DC, Joe is delighted to be back in his
native Bay Area. He's a big reader, enjoys biking and swimming and likes to
dabble in the kitchen. He will be based in the office, which he plans to
commute to via the ferry from Marin, where he lives with his wife and
11-year-old son. Joe will be on IRC and of course on-wiki as [[User:JMatazzoni
(WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JMatazzoni_(WMF)>]].

Welcome, Joe!

Yours,
-- 
James D. Forrester
Lead Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester