Hello all,
It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing Phil Chang as our new
Product Manager for Mobile, starting today. Phil will be working
closely with Tomasz’ engineering team and will report to me. As
product manager, it’s Phil’s job to define the scope and the
priorities of the improvements and feature additions that we’ll be
making to our mobile experience -- in partnership with the community
and the WMF team.
Phil’s been in the mobile space since 2002. His first product
development work on mobile was with mobile start-ups in the UK,
including a company that released StealthText, a service for
auto-expiring text messages, and later Picsel Technologies. At Picsel,
he led development of two new products, a Mobile Content Solution and
an embedded mobile web browser.
Prior to that, Phil had a long career in the Bay Area as a product
innovator at Macromedia, AT&T, and his own start-up, e-Acumen.
In his spare time, Phil enjoys art exhibitions, musical performances,
ice skating and rollerblading. During his time in the UK, he became a
British citizen and traveled throughout Europe. He has been a student
of the German, Japanese and Korean languages, and is married to a
native Japanese. He and his wife have a young daughter who holds three
citizenships: Japan, US and UK.
Working for a nonprofit again is coming full circle for Phil. During
his high-school and university years, for six years, he published and
edited a magazine of the arts operated as an independent non-profit.
He’s passionate about making culture accessible to all human beings,
and helping us bring free knowledge to billions of people. He'll also
help us explore how our mobile user community can be directly engaged
in the projects by contributing text and media.
Please join me in welcoming Phil to the Wikimedia movement.
All the best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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