On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Danese Cooper <dcoo...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> Please join me in congratulating Mark Bergsma on his promotion last week > to Operations EPM. Mark has been a volunteer since 2004, and a paid > Network Engineer on our team since August 2006. He's been helping us > with our extreme scaling issues (by debugging and tuning our Squid > setup, creating our Netherlands caching center, and generally developing > our network strategy) since the very beginning. For some time now Mark > has been unofficially in charge of managing the entire Ops Team's > deliverables including designing and implementing our new Primary Data > Center in Ashburn, VA, and the other Ops activities mentioned at > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects < > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects>. Mark has expressed an > interest in gaining some experience with people management skills as a > logical next step in his career, and to that end we will gradually add > direct reports under Mark over the next year, starting with the Data > Center Ops crew. He will continue to report to me until we hire a > Director of Technical Operations. > > Congrats Mark!!! -aude PS - let me/us know when you are visiting Ashburn... we should have you and other ops staff to a DC meetup & can treat you to beer :) > I know you will do all you can to support Mark in his new role. > > Danese Cooper > CTO, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
