User:ErrantX/bio



My name is Tom, ErrantX or Errant; feel free to use whichever (even "you there" has been known to work). I am a Brit, and live in England where I am a Software Engineering Manager and dabble in computer security and writing. I am a graduate in Electronic Engineering and used to work in computer forensics.

I joined Wikipedia in 2006 and worked on a lot of computer magazine articles (among other things) as well as contributing to Wikinews for a short spell. After a lengthy wiki-break I returned in mid-2010 to focus on Digital forensics topics, which are in dire need of improvement, biographies of living persons or wiki-gnome tasks. I later switched my main editing focus to World War II, especially military deception. In March 2011 I passed a successful request for adminship and was given the sysop bit. I entered a candidacy for the 2011 Foundation Board of Trustees Election, but ended up coming second to last... oops :) After a few years hiatus from late 2012 onwards, I returned in 2015 to work on deception articles again.

My interest expanded into the occasional contribution to Commons and (some time ago now) worked on a Wikibook about digital forensics.

I have access to a legitimate "bot" account Autoerrant as a non-admin account and for automated edits (though I rarely use it). In addition I used to maintain/develop CommonsNotificationBot and may re-write it some day.

As of November 2012, I also work as a technical contractor for the Wikimedia UK chapter.