Warm welcome from Brazil! (It’s actually hot here)
Teles
Em qui, 14 de fev de 2019 às 07:57, camelia boban <camelia.boban(a)gmail.com>
escreveu:
And a very welcome from Rome (Italy) Janeen :-).
Camelia
--
*Camelia Boban*
*| Developer |*
*Affiliations Committee Treasurer - **Wikimedia *Foundation
Coordinator - Diversity Working Group for Wikimedia Strategy 2030
Chair & co-founder - WikiDonne User Group
WMIT - WMSE - WMCH - WMAR Member
M. +39 3383385545
camelia.boban(a)gmail.com
*Wikipedia <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Camelia.boban> | *Twitter
<https://twitter.com/cameliaboban> *|* *Google Plu
<https://plus.google.com/+CameliaBoban/>s
<https://plus.google.com/+CameliaBoban/>*
*WikiDonne <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiDonne>* *| **LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/camelia-boban-31319122> **|* *Aissa
Technologies* <http://aissatechnologies.eu/>
Il giorno gio 14 feb 2019 alle ore 11:37 Kalliope Tsouroupidou <
ktsouroupidou(a)wikimedia.org> ha scritto:
Pretty welcome, Janeen :) I hope you settle in
well.
Greetings from Greece.
K.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 8:31 AM Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> I am delighted to share with you that we have added a Chief Operating
> Officer to the Wikimedia Foundation leadership (c-level) team. Today,
I'm
excited
to introduce you to Janeen Uzzell. Janeen started on January
23rd,
> in time for the Foundation's All Hands retreat late last month, and
has
since
been working out of our office in San Francisco.
Janeen was most recently the head of Women in Technology for GE, where
she
worked with GE’s global CEOs to revise practices
across their workforce
of
300,000 employees, increasing the number of women
in technology roles.
Previously, she was GE’s Global Director of External Affairs and
Technology
> Programs, and before that, she spent 5 years as Director of Healthcare
> Programs for GE Africa, based in Accra, Ghana. She also served as the
> Director of Global Healthcare Programs, Director of Healthcare
Disparity
Programs,
and Director of Service Operations for GE.
Janeen has nearly two decades of experience implementing the design and
use
of technology to drive impact on global outcomes.
She is a people
developer, transformational leader, storyteller, engineer and
self-proclaimed “global citizen” — with a passion for incubation and
impact. She says she is on a mission to use her influence and voice to
lead
> casual work that changes lives, communities and the world. She has a
MBA
from
Fairleigh Dickinson University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering
from
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State
University.
The Chief Operating Officer is not a new role for the Foundation,
although
> we haven't had one recently. As the Foundation has grown in recent
years,
> I've been talking to both the Board and
the c-team about the value of
> reinstating the COO role. We all agreed this was an important addition
to
> the Foundation to help us become more
effective.
>
> At the end of 2018, we met Janeen while recruiting for a different
> position. After completing the interview process, many people felt as
> though she had the skills for the Chief Operating Officer role. While
we
> generally do not hire before a job is
posted, we also do not like to
miss
> out on opportunities. So, in consultation
with and support from the
Board
> and c-team team, we agreed to create this
new role and ask Janeen to
join
> the Foundation.
>
> As the Foundation continues to grow and work to meet the needs of the
> Wikimedia communities, Janeen's expertise will be instrumental in
helping
> the organization continue to meet the needs
of our growing and evolving
> movement. Please join me in welcoming Janeen to the Foundation and to
the
incredible Wikimedia community!
Katherine
PS. A public announcement has also been posted on our blog:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/12/wikimedia-foundation-appoints-ja…
--
Katherine Maher (she/her)
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
--
Kalliope Tsouroupidou
Senior Trust & Safety Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l
New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
<mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
--
Steward for Wikimedia projects. Administrator at Portuguese Wikipedia and
Wikimedia Commons.
Sent from mobile. Please, excuse my brevity.
+55 (71) 99707 6409