.. is the Wikipedia handle of Andrew G. West.
Dr. West is a Principal Research Scientist at Verisign in the greater Washington D.C. area.
He received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania while working on the topic of wiki and open collaboration security, writing over a dozen academic papers relevant to Wikipedia's operations (see his C.V. and website). English Wikipedia was a primary case study in these efforts, motivating much of the community involvement detailed below.
Now, all participation is done on a purely volunteer/unaffiliated basis.