Please join me in congratulating Mark Bergsma on his promotion last week to Operations EPM. Mark has been a volunteer since 2004, and a paid Network Engineer on our team since August 2006. He's been helping us with our extreme scaling issues (by debugging and tuning our Squid setup, creating our Netherlands caching center, and generally developing our network strategy) since the very beginning. For some time now Mark has been unofficially in charge of managing the entire Ops Team's deliverables including designing and implementing our new Primary Data Center in Ashburn, VA, and the other Ops activities mentioned at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects. Mark has expressed an interest in gaining some experience with people management skills as a logical next step in his career, and to that end we will gradually add direct reports under Mark over the next year, starting with the Data Center Ops crew. He will continue to report to me until we hire a Director of Technical Operations.
I know you will do all you can to support Mark in his new role.
Danese Cooper CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Danese Cooper dcooper@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Please join me in congratulating Mark Bergsma on his promotion last week to Operations EPM. Mark has been a volunteer since 2004, and a paid Network Engineer on our team since August 2006. He's been helping us with our extreme scaling issues (by debugging and tuning our Squid setup, creating our Netherlands caching center, and generally developing our network strategy) since the very beginning. For some time now Mark has been unofficially in charge of managing the entire Ops Team's deliverables including designing and implementing our new Primary Data Center in Ashburn, VA, and the other Ops activities mentioned at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects%3E. Mark has expressed an interest in gaining some experience with people management skills as a logical next step in his career, and to that end we will gradually add direct reports under Mark over the next year, starting with the Data Center Ops crew. He will continue to report to me until we hire a Director of Technical Operations.
Congrats Mark!!!
-aude
PS - let me/us know when you are visiting Ashburn... we should have you and other ops staff to a DC meetup & can treat you to beer :)
I know you will do all you can to support Mark in his new role.
Danese Cooper CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello,
Please join me in congratulating Mark Bergsma on his promotion last week to Operations EPM.
Congratulations with a long title (whatever it means, Enterprise? Executive? Project Manager?) What is the rationale for another Director of Operations? What will he direct? What is the future structure of 'ops'? Who participated in the discussion about ops leadership needs?
Domas
congrats!
2010/9/15 Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com
Hello,
Please join me in congratulating Mark Bergsma on his promotion last week to Operations EPM.
Congratulations with a long title (whatever it means, Enterprise? Executive? Project Manager?) What is the rationale for another Director of Operations? What will he direct? What is the future structure of 'ops'? Who participated in the discussion about ops leadership needs?
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congratulations! :) :) I am in awe at Wikimedia foundation and volunteers, and I am also truly ashamed that I expressed doubt earlier about the intentions of the Wikimedia foundation.
cheers, Jamie
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congrats!
2010/9/15 Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com
Hello,
Please join me in congratulating Mark Bergsma on his
promotion last week
to Operations EPM.
Congratulations with a long title (whatever it means, Enterprise? Executive? Project Manager?) What is the rationale for another Director of Operations? What
will he
direct? What is the future structure of 'ops'? Who participated in the discussion about ops leadership needs?
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Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hello,
Please join me in congratulating Mark Bergsma on his promotion last week to Operations EPM.
Congratulations with a long title (whatever it means, Enterprise? Executive? Project Manager?) What is the rationale for another Director of Operations? What will he direct? What is the future structure of 'ops'? Who participated in the discussion about ops leadership needs?
Domas
If we believe this ip, he will be directing the projects on the operations sections:
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=WMF_Engineering_Overview_October_...
2010/9/15 Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com:
Congratulations with a long title (whatever it means, Enterprise? Executive? Project Manager?)
EPM = Engineering Project Manager
My understanding is that EPMs direct engineering projects. The other EPMs we currently have are Tomasz (fundraising engineering, mobile, maybe more), Alolita Sharma (LiquidThreads, ResourceLoader, and more) and Rob Lanphier (FlaggedRevs at least, don't know what else).
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
Hi,
Le mercredi 15 septembre 2010 à 16:43 +0200, Roan Kattouw a écrit :
2010/9/15 Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com:
Congratulations with a long title (whatever it means, Enterprise? Executive? Project Manager?)
EPM = Engineering Project Manager
My understanding is that EPMs direct engineering projects. The other EPMs we currently have are Tomasz (fundraising engineering, mobile, maybe more), Alolita Sharma (LiquidThreads, ResourceLoader, and more) and Rob Lanphier (FlaggedRevs at least, don't know what else).
Erik gave an overview of how EPMs work a few days ago: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/49532
(P = Programs, btw).
Hi!
Erik gave an overview of how EPMs work a few days ago: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/49532
What I learned is that most important information should be put under most obscure subject lines, so that only people who really really care would read that.
Domas
On 15 September 2010 16:41, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
Erik gave an overview of how EPMs work a few days ago: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/49532
What I learned is that most important information should be put under most obscure subject lines, so that only people who really really care would read that.
It's not that obscure... it seems like a perfect subject line to me. It says precisely what the email is about...
On 15 September 2010 16:41, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi!
Erik gave an overview of how EPMs work a few days ago:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/49532
What I learned is that most important information should be put under most obscure subject lines, so that only people who really really
care > would read that.
You're right... I added something here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Engineering_Program_Manager , it should be more visible (please someone improve it).
Nemo
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