User:TomFawls

Hi, I'm Tom Fawls (formally, Thomas E. Fawls, but why be formal here?), a firm believer in the open, fair-priced, credited sharing of information since the early days of the Internet; a staunch Wikipedia supporter (since its start in 2001) and a sometimes contributor (since 2011 or so).

In my "real life", I've been a helicopter pilot (US Army), a system / project manager, a university professor, a management consultant. In recent years, I've been working hard to improve my photography; slowly working to build a portfolio of stock and art images and I have been lucky enough to have sold more than a few images over the years.

Over the last 5 or 6 years, I have started defending and working to expand the acceptance and use of Wikipedia as an accepted research source within the cloistered, (dare I say "in-bred"?) world of professional [[1]academia]. Read my blog entry at Wikipedia is Not Satanic for my reasons for supporting this worthwhile cause.

For the moment, that's all I wanted to say. I understand that this is a bit of a half-assed user page. I do hope to expand this page over the years, but for now, this will have to do.

I wish you good reading and verified facts.

Tom Fawls