Shawn Holmes (He/Him)

• Curiosity
• patience
• ownership
• empathy
• honesty

You've got to care about what you do, but it doesn't happen in isolation -- it happens as a part of a team. So, you've got to care about their success as much as your own.

• Overcommunicative
• thoughtful
• direct
• clear
• transparent

Whenever I communicate to colleagues, my goal isn't to make the complicated easy...it is to make the complicated _understandable_.

• Close-mindedness
• unreliability
• arrogance
• selfishness
• inconsiderateness

Hubris is the worst. As someone who has spent an entire career of non-stop learning (a pre-req for technology), anyone that presents as "knowing everything" and has "nothing to learn" is a serious red flag. It's ok to have expertise...just make certain Dunning-Kruger isn't at the door.

Met my wife online in '95, well before the existing of dating apps/websites. Who remembers Usenet?

• How would you describe your strengths?

  I never give up. Ask me about the time it took me 30 years to track down an unidentified song! If you want something done, I will find a way.