Roger is a native of the San Francisco Bay area. He currently works as the Software Quality Assurance Manager for a high-tech semiconductor equipment company based in northern California. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1985 and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University in 1993. Roger is married, has five children and is currently serving on the high council in his stake.
Roger became involved with FairMormon in April 2008 when he became an editor and administrator on the FairMormon Answers Wiki after spending several years editing LDS-related Wikipedia articles. Since that time he has worked to restructure and expand the FairMormon Wiki in order to make it as comprehensive and easy to navigate as possible. He received FairMormon’s “John Taylor Defender of the Faith Award” at the 2009 conference in recognition of these efforts, and his Wikipedia experience was featured in the Deseret News article “Wiki Wars: In battle to define beliefs, Mormons and foes wage battle on Wikipedia,” in January 2011.
FairMormon Conference Presentations
Something Wiki This Way Comes: How collaborative editing is changing the face of online LDS apologetics (Presentation)
Something Wiki This Way Comes: How collaborative editing is changing the face of online LDS apologetics, R. Scott Lloyd, Church News (Aug. 8, 2011)
Other Publications
Roger Nicholson’s articles in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture.
Roger Nicholson’s articles in Meridian Magazine.
Roger Nicholson’s posts on the FairMormon Blog
Los anteojos, la piedra, el sombrero y el libro: la imagen que tiene un creyente del siglo XXI sobre la traducción del Libro de Mormón (This is a complete Spanish translation of “The Spectacles, the Stone, the Hat, and the Book: A Twenty-first Century Believer’s View of the Book of Mormon Translation,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 5 (2013) 121-190.)