Austin, Texas, United States
Manage all our major relationships with technology companies that interact with the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, or any of its sister projects. Run Wikimedia Enterprise, our corporate data platform that provides commercial access to Wikimedia data at speed and scale.
Wikimedia LLC is a single-member limited liability corporation, wholly owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, that focuses on developing new revenue streams to support the Wikimedia movement. We offer Wikimedia Enterprise, which provides commercially-oriented data services at scale for organizations that need to repurpose Wikimedia content in other contexts.
As the head of earned revenue for the Wikimedia Foundation, which manages Wikipedia and its sister projects, I'm in charge of finding and executing on new financial opportunities aligned with the Foundation's mission and vision, beginning with the development of a new product focused on large-scale content reuse of Wikimedia data by third-party platforms.
Helping build out the Governance Futures Lab for IFTF alongside lab director Jake Dunagan. The Lab is focused on what the future of governance — the systems, rules, and customs we use to manage ourselves collectively — could be. We do consultative work with governments, organizations, and institutions, and also fun projects we develop on our own (ask me about the Simulation Corps or the Club of the Wyrd sometime.)
Coauthored, along with Thor Muller, "Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business," published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley. "Get Lucky" is a manual for continuous innovation, or "planned serendipity." As the pace of change accelerates around our businesses and the sheer volume of information explodes, we're under incredible pressure to connect just in time with the people and ideas we need to thrive, even when we don’t know who they are or where they might be. This uncertainty isn’t a problem, however—it brings tremendous opportunities, but only if we embrace one of the most important drivers of success in the modern economy: the unexpected. Available at fine bookstores and e-bookstores everywhere.
Teaching workshops for federal government leaders on innovative business and acquisition practices, the emerging tech landscape, and how to better scale solutions to advance their missions. Dcode is a technology accelerator that focuses on bringing emerging technologies to government, as well as a community of tech companies and government leaders working together to bring commercial innovation to the federal market.
Bridgepoint Consulting is a Texas-based management consulting firm that provides strategic consulting services to a wide range of clients. I currently work with their Public Sector team to provide support to the City of Austin to develop and execute on a modern digital services strategy, focusing on issues including overall strategic direction, staffing and hiring opportunities, and technology selection and implementation.