Expanding the AWS Blog Team – Welcome Ana, Tina, Tara, and the Localization Team

I wrote my first post for this blog back in 2004, and have published over 2,700 more since then, including 52 last month! Given the ever-increasing pace of AWS innovation, and the amount of cool stuff that we have to share with you, we are expanding our blogging team. Please give a warm welcome to Ana, Tina, and Tara:

Ana Visneski (@acvisneski) was the first official blogger for the United States Coast Guard. While there she focused on search & rescue coordination and also led the team that established a social media presence. Ana is a graduate of the University of Washington Communications Leadership Program, and was the first to complete both the Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) and Master of Communication in Communities and Networks (MCCN) degree programs. Ana works with our guest posters, tracks our metrics, and manages the ticketing system that we use to coordinate our activities.

Tina Barr (@tinathebarr) is a Recruiting Coordinator for the AWS Commercial Sales organization. In order to provide a great first impression for her candidates, she began to read the AWS Customer Success Stories and developed a special interest in startups. In addition to her recruiting duties, Tina writes the AWS Hot Startups (September, October, November) posts each month. Tina earned a Bachelor’s degree in Community Health from Western Washington University and has always enjoyed writing.

Tara Walker (@taraw) is an AWS Technical Evangelist. Her background includes time as a developer and software engineer at multiple high-tech and media companies. With a focus on IoT, mobile, gaming, serverless architectures, and cross-platform development, Tara loves to dive deep into the latest and greatest technical topics and build compelling demos. Tara has a Bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University and is currently working on a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. Like me, Tara will focus on writing posts for upcoming AWS launches.

I am thrilled to be working with these three talented and creative new members of our blogging team, and am looking forward to seeing what they come up with.

AWS Blog Localization Team
Many of the posts on this blog have been translated into Japanese and Korean for AWS customers who are most comfortable in those languages. A big thank-you is due to those who are doing this work:

• Japanese – Tatsuji Ishibashi (Product Marketing Manager for AWS Japan) manages and reviews the translation work that is done by a team of Solution Architects in Japan and the AWS Localization Team, and publishes the content on the AWS Japan Blog.
• Korean – Channy Yun (Technical Evangelist for AWS Korea) translates posts for the AWS Korea Blog.
• Mandarin Chinese – Our colleagues in China are translating important announcements for the AWS China Blog.

— Jeff;