FYI - belatedly forwarding after internal announcement:
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Hi folks,
Guillaume Paumier has been Technical Communications Manager in the
Engineering Community Team since early 2011. In this role, he's been
instrumental in developing the monthly engineering reports (including
all the underlying infrastructure on
mediawiki.org), vetting and
writing technical blog posts and social media updates, and most
recently, co-launching the weekly tech newsletter and keeping it
running.
Guillaume's role is changing, and he will shift to my department as
part of the Engineering/Product department division. He will report
directly to me as Senior Analyst, and I will deploy him to projects of
strategic importance that require his expertise (any Guillaume
deployments will not be noted on the deployments calendar). Guillaume
will continue to put some of his time towards the tech newsletters and
reports for the time being (though we're considering to merge the
two), but other communications responsibilities will be handled by
Katherine's team.
What does it mean to be a Senior Analyst? As a long-time Wikimedian
(since 2005), Guillaume understands many of Wikimedia's workflows
deeply. As a self-confessed OCD introvert, he loves documenting,
analyzing; breaking apart things and putting them back together in
novel ways. He's awesome at information architecture, and at really
thinking through all the options to solve a complex product problem.
In other words, when I see a product that benefits from deep community
expertise, I can throw Guillaume at it and he'll help. :)
The first project Guillaume is taking on in this new role is the file
metadata cleanup drive, preparatory to the Structured Data work the
multimedia team will focus on in coming months. You can read more
about it here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive
Finally, it's my pleasure to announce that Guillaume is also
relocating (back!) to the San Francisco Bay Area. Please join me in
congratulating Guillaume in this new role and wishing him a
stress-free move to San Francisco.
Warmly,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
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