User:RexxS

I live in the West Midlands, England and was born in 1952. Although I studied Natural Sciences and the Electrical Sciences Tripos, I only worked for a year in the Electronics industry before becoming a teacher. After 24 years of teaching in Secondary schools (11-18+), I spent my time since 1997 working on IT-related projects in Further and Higher Education as well as in the IT industry, before retiring in 2012.

My main hobby is Scuba diving and I've been involved in instruction of recreational diving for well over 25 years to date as an SAA National Instructor.

Having looked at the Wikipedia articles on Scuba and related topics in 2008, I felt obliged to create an account to take part in improving the topic to the best of my abilities.

Since then, I've taken some of the scuba articles through the GA process and written featured content, both article and list. I've had the benefit of being able to collaborate with a wonderful source for diving-related references, w:User:Gene Hobbs, who runs the Rubicon Foundation. Nowadays, I tend to find my wiki-time taken up mainly on technical matters, particularly my work for w:WP:WikiProject Accessibility and maintaining Module:Wikidata and Module:WikidataIB, which I have worked on developing since 2013 to enable information to be pulled from Wikidata into infoboxes on the English Wikipedia, Commons, and on over 100 other projects.

I currently serve on the boards of Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia UK. I am a Lead Trainer for WMUK and make use of the "vanilla" account w:User:Famously Sharp for demonstration of editing and the unconfirmed account w:User:Famously Mild to demonstrate how Wikipedia looks to a brand new editor. Since Summer 2019, I've been privileged to chair the new thematic organisation, "Wikimedia Medicine", as Wiki Project Med Foundation will now be known.

As I edit mainly on English Wikipedia, where I am an administrator, you are most likely to find me there.