I will stand as a candidate. While I have become less active in posting questions and answers to MO, I still check the site daily. Moderating seems to me like a good way to remain involved and contribute.

I believe that my background (mathematician in industry/government; research typically focused on physics/CS) can be a good complement to the remaining moderator team, insofar as that would ever matter.

An ideal moderator would be noticed iff circumstances demand it. I would attach the greatest importance to careful deliberation and reaching consensus, both internally amongst the moderator team and the community at large.

Yet there is inevitably some latitude in the actions a moderator might take. I would, for instance, tend to err on the side of encouraging:

• questions at or above the level of a strong second-year graduate student;
• a progressively broader and more representative cross-section of mathematical activity, especially questions of applied mathematics and substantive mathematical questions from other fields;
• professional questions about the discipline of mathematics that are not obviously better asked elsewhere (e.g., academia.SE).