Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matt Walker has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer.
Before joining us, Matt was a software engineer at Rockwell Collins Control Technologies developing “a DO-178B level A qualified Real-Time Operating System in C and PowerPC assembly.” (Ask him about it.) He got his dual B.S. in EE and CS from the University of Tulsa with a minor in Mathematics.
On the side, Matt enjoys tech theatre, glass blowing, SCUBA diving, hiking, and bicycling so I’m not sure how he’ll fit in with his move to the Bay Area. During the reference check, the department chair of Electrical Engineering at his uni regaled me with stories about a time lapse video project he self-started and having to sign a permission slip for a high school prom.
His first official day will be on July 9th assuming he survives his cross-country trip through Wyoming and the Dakotas. (I’ve seen the trailers for Longmire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmire_(TV_series) so it’s not a given — Wyoming sounds like a very dangerous place.) He will be working with the FR-Tech team trying to establish the lower bounds for the Ballmer Peak http://xkcd.com/323/ during their late night programming sessions; Katie and Peter will be establishing the Long Tail.
He’s also great friends with Peter Gehres, but we won’t hold that against him. :-) Please join me in welcoming Matt to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Take care,
Terry
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WELCOME MATT!
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matt Walker has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer.
Before joining us, Matt was a software engineer at Rockwell Collins Control Technologies developing “a DO-178B level A qualified Real-Time Operating System in C and PowerPC assembly.” (Ask him about it.) He got his dual B.S. in EE and CS from the University of Tulsa with a minor in Mathematics.
On the side, Matt enjoys tech theatre, glass blowing, SCUBA diving, hiking, and bicycling so I’m not sure how he’ll fit in with his move to the Bay Area. During the reference check, the department chair of Electrical Engineering at his uni regaled me with stories about a time lapse video project he self-started and having to sign a permission slip for a high school prom.
His first official day will be on July 9th assuming he survives his cross-country trip through Wyoming and the Dakotas. (I’ve seen the trailers for Longmire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmire_(TV_series) so it’s not a given — Wyoming sounds like a very dangerous place.) He will be working with the FR-Tech team trying to establish the lower bounds for the Ballmer Peak http://xkcd.com/323/ during their late night programming sessions; Katie and Peter will be establishing the Long Tail.
He’s also great friends with Peter Gehres, but we won’t hold that against him. :-) Please join me in welcoming Matt to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Take care,
Terry
terry chay 최태리 Director of Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* That's our commitment.*”
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I'm looking forward to meeting you when I get back from Wikimania!
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Terry Chay tchay@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matt Walker has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as a Fundraising Engineer.
Before joining us, Matt was a software engineer at Rockwell Collins Control Technologies developing “a DO-178B level A qualified Real-Time Operating System in C and PowerPC assembly.” (Ask him about it.) He got his dual B.S. in EE and CS from the University of Tulsa with a minor in Mathematics.
On the side, Matt enjoys tech theatre, glass blowing, SCUBA diving, hiking, and bicycling so I’m not sure how he’ll fit in with his move to the Bay Area. During the reference check, the department chair of Electrical Engineering at his uni regaled me with stories about a time lapse video project he self-started and having to sign a permission slip for a high school prom.
His first official day will be on July 9th assuming he survives his cross-country trip through Wyoming and the Dakotas. (I’ve seen the trailers for Longmire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmire_(TV_series) so it’s not a given — Wyoming sounds like a very dangerous place.) He will be working with the FR-Tech team trying to establish the lower bounds for the Ballmer Peak http://xkcd.com/323/ during their late night programming sessions; Katie and Peter will be establishing the Long Tail.
He’s also great friends with Peter Gehres, but we won’t hold that against him. :-) Please join me in welcoming Matt to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Take care,
Terry
terry chay 최태리 Director of Features Engineering Wikimedia Foundation “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* That's our commitment.*”
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