User:Csernica

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Welcome to my user page! If you want to contact me, feel free to post to my talk page or to send me email.

Professionally I am a software engineer, having graduated in 1985 from Stevens Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer science. I moved to California shortly after I graduated and have worked for the same Silicon Valley company ever since, and currently reside in the Santa Cruz Mountains. But I grew up in New Jersey and frankly still feel at times as if I live in a foreign country.

However, I make most of my edits to articles on religion, primarily those related to Eastern Orthodoxy. I am a subdeacon of The Orthodox Church in America in the Diocese of the West under the omophorion of Bishop Benjamin of San Francisco. I don't confine my edits to Orthodox topics though, and also contribute to historical articles or those on any other subject in which I have taken an interest over the years. I pretty much never edit articles related to my professional work.

I've started a few articles here on Wikipedia (I suppose my favorite is John of Shanghai and San Francisco, on the saint who saved the life of my older son) but there are a few others as well as some I have edited heavily and where the present content is largely mine, but I'm not particularly interested in maintaining a brag list here. I am insufficiently energetic to have ever taken the trouble to drag an article to featured article status, and I doubt I ever will.

Barnstars

• I award this Barnstar to Csernica for their great efforts in designing Template:Infobox Saint. --evrik 15:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
  I award this Barnstar to Csernica for their great efforts in designing Template:Infobox Saint. --evrik 15:02, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
• In the Wikipedia tradition, I award you "The Saints' Barnstar"; for your many contributions to articles on Eastern Christianity, and especially your efforts to raise St. Gregory the Theologian to GA status. File:Symbol support vote.svg -- Majoreditor 00:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  In the Wikipedia tradition, I award you "The Saints' Barnstar"; for your many contributions to articles on Eastern Christianity, and especially your efforts to raise St. Gregory the Theologian to GA status. File:Symbol support vote.svg -- Majoreditor 00:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
• The Working Man's Barnstar for tireless effort in making Wikipedia pages easy on the eyes Tiamut 10:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
  The Working Man's Barnstar for tireless effort in making Wikipedia pages easy on the eyes Tiamut 10:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• The Tireless Contributor Barnstar As the top contributor to Media copyright questions, you deserve this barnstar. Thank you! Jreferee (Talk) 05:25, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar As the top contributor to Media copyright questions, you deserve this barnstar. Thank you! Jreferee ^(Talk) 05:25, 23 August 2007 (UTC)