[Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst

[Erik Zachte]

Congrats James! I 'm looking forward to most tongue in cheek design
documents I have ever seen. :-)

Erik


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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Announcement] James Forrester joins WMF as Technical
Product Analyst

Everyone,

It's my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday and
will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff member.

James will help prioritize the short term and long term work log on the
Visual Editor, conduct user research, and incorporate community feedback
into the development process.

As many of you know, James is a long-time Wikimedian. He started
contributing to English Wikipedia in October 2002, and was a founding member
of their Arbitration Committee. He was also the movement's volunteer Chief
Research Officer, helping shepherd the predecessor of what is today the
Research Committee, has for years been the "gopher-in-chief" at the
Wikimania community conferences, and helped found Wikimedia UK in 2005.

James joins us following a successful career in the UK government, where he
implemented key open access and open government initiatives.
Most recently, he was the acting Head of data.gov.uk, and then the Digital
Engagement Policy Lead in the Government Digital Service, both at the
Cabinet Office. James holds a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science
from the University of Warwick.

Beyond technology, James has strong interests in international politics,
physics, communications, economics, law, the constitutional history of
Britain, and education.

Please join me in welcoming James!

Howie

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