Announcement: Matt Walker joins Wikimedia as Fundraising Engineer

Hello everyone,

	It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Matt Walker has joined the Wikimedia Foundation as
a Fundraising Engineer.

	Before joining us, Matt was a software engineer at Rockwell Collins Control Technologies developing
“a DO-178B level A qualified Real-Time Operating System in C and PowerPC assembly.” (Ask him about
it.) He got his dual B.S. in EE and CS from the University of Tulsa with a minor in Mathematics.

	On the side, Matt enjoys tech theatre, glass blowing, SCUBA diving, hiking, and bicycling so I’m not
sure how he’ll fit in with his move to the Bay Area. During the reference check, the department chair of
Electrical Engineering at his uni regaled me with stories about a time lapse video project he
self-started and having to sign a permission slip for a high school prom.

	His first official day will be on July 9th assuming he survives his cross-country trip through Wyoming and
the Dakotas. (I’ve seen the trailers for Longmire
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmire_(TV_series)> so it’s not a given — Wyoming sounds like a
very dangerous place.) He will be working with the FR-Tech team trying to establish the lower bounds for
the Ballmer Peak <http://xkcd.com/323/> during their late night programming sessions; Katie and Peter
will be establishing the Long Tail.

	He’s also great friends with Peter Gehres, but we won’t hold that against him.  Please join me in
welcoming Matt to the Wikimedia Foundation.

	Take care,

	Terry

terry chay  최태리
Director of Features Engineering