[Foundation-l] Introducing our Usability Team

2009-03-03 Thread Naoko Komura
Please join me welcoming the new members of the Usability Project Team.

Arash Boostani, a fourteen-year tech-veteran from Genentech, has joined 
the project team as a Senior Software Developer.  Arash also previously 
directed the development team of an environmental non-profit directory 
service called WiserEarth, which runs on collaborative software similar 
to MediaWiki.  At WiserEarth, Arash led the way in making the software 
available as open-source software for the development community.

As of February 1st, Trevor Parscal was internally transferred from the 
Wikimedia tech team to the position of Software Developer on the 
Usability project.  Trevor has over eight years experience as an 
independent consultant in both software development and user interface 
design.  After joining WMF, Trevor worked on data center management 
tools, amongst other development projects.

Parul Vora, a former resident designer of the Design Innovation Team at 
Yahoo! (Yhaus) and researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, joined the 
team.  Parul brings a unique combined talent of user experience 
research, design, and technology to the team.  She has worked on various 
research and design projects such as experimental information interfaces 
and an event-based media sharing application. At Intel Research Labs, 
she researched open-source physical computing platforms, their sensors 
and actuators, and visual programming languages for mobile phone platforms.

We are currently interviewing candidates for the second software 
developer position.

It is my honor and privilege to work with Arash, Trevor and Parul on the 
Wikipedia Usability Initiative. I am excited to have the mixture of 
great talents on the team.

Naoko Komura

Program Manager
Wikimedia Foundation






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Re: [Foundation-l] Introducing our Usability Team

2009-03-03 Thread Brian
Make something not only usable but cool! Good luck guys.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Naoko Komura nkom...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Please join me welcoming the new members of the Usability Project Team.

 Arash Boostani, a fourteen-year tech-veteran from Genentech, has joined
 the project team as a Senior Software Developer.  Arash also previously
 directed the development team of an environmental non-profit directory
 service called WiserEarth, which runs on collaborative software similar
 to MediaWiki.  At WiserEarth, Arash led the way in making the software
 available as open-source software for the development community.

 As of February 1st, Trevor Parscal was internally transferred from the
 Wikimedia tech team to the position of Software Developer on the
 Usability project.  Trevor has over eight years experience as an
 independent consultant in both software development and user interface
 design.  After joining WMF, Trevor worked on data center management
 tools, amongst other development projects.

 Parul Vora, a former resident designer of the Design Innovation Team at
 Yahoo! (Yhaus) and researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, joined the
 team.  Parul brings a unique combined talent of user experience
 research, design, and technology to the team.  She has worked on various
 research and design projects such as experimental information interfaces
 and an event-based media sharing application. At Intel Research Labs,
 she researched open-source physical computing platforms, their sensors
 and actuators, and visual programming languages for mobile phone platforms.

 We are currently interviewing candidates for the second software
 developer position.

 It is my honor and privilege to work with Arash, Trevor and Parul on the
 Wikipedia Usability Initiative. I am excited to have the mixture of
 great talents on the team.

 Naoko Komura

 Program Manager
 Wikimedia Foundation






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