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Cindy Cicalese is the Founder and Consultant at Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge. She was previously a Principal MediaWiki Architect at Selfiie Corporation, a health tech startup. Before that, at the Wikimedia Foundation, she was a Principal Engineer on the Developer Experience Team and a Principal Engineer and Senior Product Manager for MediaWiki on the Platform Engineering Team aka Core Platform Team. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cindy was a Principal Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor of the Software Solutions and Technologies department at the MITRE Corporation. She also served as a tenured Computer Science professor at Marymount University.

You can see her personal mediawiki.org page here as well as her former official Wikimedia Foundation page here.

Cindy has developed software across a diverse set of domains including social semantic authoring, computer security, real-time robotics control, distributed systems, web applications, and more. Her doctoral dissertation research involved specification of distributed software component interfaces. She serves in a volunteer capacity on the Board of the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group. She has been involved in organizing and presenting at many of the MediaWiki users conferences.

In addition to her consulting work, Cindy has developed and continues to maintain a suite of open source MediaWiki extensions that are especially helpful for enterprise use of wikis. You can find the full list of extensions on the Support My Work page.

Cindy is also an active contributor to Canasta, an open-source containerized MediaWiki distribution that packages MediaWiki with over a hundred extensions into a ready-to-deploy knowledge management platform. Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge is a sponsor of the project, and Cindy is available to help organizations evaluate, deploy, and customize Canasta installations.

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-|[http://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-cicalese Cindy Cicalese] is the Founder and Consultant at Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge. She was previously a Principal MediaWiki Architect at Selfiie Corporation, a health tech startup. Before that, at the [https://www.wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation], she was a Principal Engineer on the Developer Experience Team and a Principal Engineer and Senior Product Manager for MediaWiki on the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Platform_Engineering_Team Platform Engineering Team] aka [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Core_Platform_Team Core Platform Team]. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cindy was a Principal Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor of the Software Solutions and Technologies department at [http://www.mitre.org the MITRE Corporation]. She also served as a tenured Computer Science professor at [https://marymount.edu/ Marymount University].
+[http://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-cicalese Cindy Cicalese] is the Founder and Consultant at Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge. She was previously a Principal MediaWiki Architect at Selfiie Corporation, a health tech startup. Before that, at the [https://www.wikimediafoundation.org Wikimedia Foundation], she was a Principal Engineer on the Developer Experience Team and a Principal Engineer and Senior Product Manager for MediaWiki on the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Platform_Engineering_Team Platform Engineering Team] aka [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Core_Platform_Team Core Platform Team]. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cindy was a Principal Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor of the Software Solutions and Technologies department at [http://www.mitre.org the MITRE Corporation]. She also served as a tenured Computer Science professor at [https://marymount.edu/ Marymount University].
 You can see her personal [https://www.mediawiki.org mediawiki.org] page [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Cindy.cicalese here] as well as her former official Wikimedia Foundation page [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CCicalese_(WMF) here].
 Cindy has developed software across a diverse set of domains including social semantic authoring, computer security, real-time robotics control, distributed systems, web applications, and more. Her doctoral dissertation research involved [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/774918 specification of distributed software component interfaces]. She serves in a volunteer capacity on the Board of the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholders%27_Group MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group]. She has been involved in organizing and presenting at many of the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_user_conferences MediaWiki users conferences].
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-In addition to her consulting work, Cindy has developed and continues to maintain a suite of open source MediaWiki extensions that are especially helpful for enterprise use of wikis.  You can find the full list on the [[Support My Work]] page.
+In addition to her consulting work, Cindy has developed and continues to maintain a suite of open source MediaWiki extensions that are especially helpful for enterprise use of wikis.  You can find the full list of extensions on the [[Support My Work]] page.
 Cindy is also an active contributor to [https://canasta.wiki Canasta], an open-source containerized MediaWiki distribution that packages MediaWiki with over a hundred extensions into a ready-to-deploy knowledge management platform. Amethyst Collaborative Knowledge is a sponsor of the project, and Cindy is available to help organizations evaluate, deploy, and customize Canasta installations.
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