維基媒體工程/歡迎技術長 Victoria Coleman

本段落歡迎技術長Victoria Coleman，是由Katherine Maher在2016年11月2日所發送。

大家好，

我很興奮在此介紹我們的新任技術長 Victoria Coleman 。Victoria 帶著超過二十年的消費者與企業技術加入我們。而當你開始認識她，你一定很快就會發現，她十分熱衷於我們的使命會如何推進世界上的教育。

Victoria 的第一天上任會在11月7日。

你們很多人都知道，尋找技術長的人才是趟緊密的流程，同時是我們最近這幾個月來最優先的事項。來自組織各方的人員都為此作出了貢獻，尤其是包含了主管以及資深職員的技術長招聘委員會，還有高階管理層代表所構成的「技術」與「產品」兩個次團體。總共我們審查了將近900位人選，其中有190位通過了初篩，最後招聘委員會審查了70人。

我個人想要對每一位參與這項嚴謹流程的人們道謝。我很高興見到基金會招聘團隊的專注與奉獻，以及協助這次尋找人選的許多職工與志工。

We were looking for someone with a track record of success leading strategy and execution for technology platforms at scale. We also wanted someone who would be an effective leader for our Technology department and partner to Product teams. We needed someone who would thrive within our culture and be an inclusive collaborator with staff and community. After careful consideration, we agreed that Victoria met all of these requirements and then some.

Victoria has deep experience across consumer and enterprise technology fields, and is a longtime advocate for innovation in education and the public sector. She is a strong leader with expertise in strategy and development for mobile and tablet platforms, connected devices, cyber security, and web services at scale. She brings operational excellence in strategic long-term planning, execution, and delivery, and running large, distributed teams.

Most recently, Victoria served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Connected Home Division of Technicolor, where she was responsible for innovation strategy, product management, technology roadmaps, and technical due diligence for acquisitions and partnerships. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Harman, she led the core technology platforms of the Infotainment Division including systems and software, media, tuner, navigation, connectivity, and advanced driver assist systems. Before this, she served as Vice President, Emerging Technologies at Nokia, Vice President, Software Engineering of Hewlett-Packard’s webOS global business unit, and Vice President of Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology.

Victoria also has deep familiarity with open source software development, having witnessed the rise of the Unix movement first as a student and later as an instructor. She has been actively involved in the development of the Linux-based LiMo (renamed Tizen). She passionately believes in the power of open source and is very familiar with leveraging open source to build products.  

She has also been selected to participate on numerous advisory councils in higher education and the public sector. She serves on the advisory Board of the Santa Clara University Department of Computer Engineering, and she is also a Senior Advisor to the Director of the  University of California Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.She serves as a volunteer advisor on both Lockheed Martin’s Technology Advisory Group and on the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board where she offers advice and recommendations on science, technology, manufacturing, acquisition process, and other matters that draw on her expertise. She has also been a volunteer advisor on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Information Science and Technology advisory group as well as DARPA’s Defense Sciences Research Council.

Victoria received her B.Sc and M.Sc in Electronic Computer Systems and Computer Aided Logic Design respectively from the University of Salford, UK and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, UK. She holds 4 patents and is the author of over 60 articles and books (!). Born in Greece, she has worked with teams around the world, including in Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Finland, Germany, India, Israel, Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. More information on Victoria’s full background can be found in the blog post about the announcement.

她完整而多樣的背景可以證明，Victoria 將會為技術長一職帶來深度的技術知識以及營運經驗。她積極熱心於教育、我們的使命、以及為全球的讀者打造與設計科技。

出生於希臘，Victoria 期待能夠成為更積極的希臘文維基百科貢獻者，並且在接下來的幾個月裡認識工作人員以及維基媒體社群。

你可以在發布她任用消息的部落格中得知更多有關 Victoria 的資訊。

請加入我歡迎 Victoria 來到基金會。我們非常興奮她能加入我們！

Katherine