User:Besieged

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Name	Besieged
Born	The late 70's Germany
Nationality	American
Country	USA
Current location	Atlanta
Time zone	UTC-5
Family and friends
Marital status	Married
Children	2
Pets	Cats, fish
Education and employment
Occupation	Systems & Security Administrator
Education	Information Technology
Signature	besiegedtalk A few of my interests On Wikipedia: This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 6 months and 29 days. en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English. enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. This user is a recent changes patroller. This editor is a WikiGnome. This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know. General interests: This user is interested in birding. This user is owned by one or more cats. This user will eat fish raw. Here fishy, fishy, fishy. This user keeps saltwater fish. This user cares about animals This user is interested in firearms and is generally knowledgeable about them. This user enjoys rifle shooting. This user enjoys pistol shooting. This user spends most of his free time thinking about random things... This user is a Naturalist. This user loves the Great Outdoors. This user is interested in economics. This user is interested in psychology. This user is interested in history. This user is interested in politics. This user is interested in computer engineering. This user is against DRM. This user is interested in his family's history and lineage. This user is interested in aviation. cvg-4This user is an expert gamer. game devThis user is interested in video game development. This user is against computer and video game censorship and regulation. This user prefers to play games on a PC. This user is thinking with Portals! TCP/IPThe user was active on the Internet before the World Wide Web was invented.WWW This user is interested in philosophy. Ron PaulThis user thinks that Ron Paul, even though he dropped out, is still the only intelligent person in the political business. This user has seen all of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. This user lives for science! ATLThis user lives in or hails from Atlanta.

About me

I am a systems, security and network analyst and administrator with 22+ years of professional industry experience: in 2009 I made my entry into the world of video game development, first as a texture artist and later as a lead developer for Mechwarrior: Living Legends. On top of my full-time I.T. career, I am also concurrently a project director and lead producer for The Keep Studios. I also hold a CEH certification.

In addition, I am a state and federally licensed falconer with a passion for biology and ecology, also including salt-water reef keeping. Other hobbies / interests include music (I play several instruments, including piano, trombone and drums); movies; philosophy, politics and their correlations; psychology both human and animal; martial arts; military and scientific history; reading and writing focusing primarily on commentary, opinion, news and science-fiction.

The majority of my contributions to Wikipedia center around basic article cleanup, grammar / spelling / punctuation, and fact checking. Oh, and a continual, aggressive, and with-prejudice search for vandals.

I strongly believe in the importance of notability and relevance when it comes to adding articles, but that could just be me.

My favorite page on Wikipedia is the New Pages section.

My contributions to the Wikipedia.

Some useful anti-vandalism information can be found here and here.