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

[Jon Robson]

Hurray for even more Britishness in the SF office! Congrats!
On 19 May 2012 06:59, "Nurunnaby Chowdhury" <nh at nhasive.com> wrote:

> Congrtz James!
>
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Patricio Molina
> <patriciomolina at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Congratulations, James!
> >
> > Patricio Molina
> > http://twitter.com/patriciomolina
> >
> > On 17/05/2012, at 13:52, Howie Fung <hfung at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > 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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