I've been working the Silicon Valley startup circuit for many years as both an individual contributor and team manager.My mission as an IT professional is to build stable infrastructure on which corporate, development, and production teams can depend.My mission as an individual is to maintain esprit de corps within my team and my company. A company is made up of its varied individuals, and the culture should reflect strength of both team and members.My personal passion is the care of retired and rescued exotic cats (at this point in time, tigers in specific).My overall goal in everything is to leave things better than I found them.Specialties: Startups, unix, linux, general IT, team growth and management, tigers