Welcome to Alleycat mining

I'm pushing 40 years as an I.T. professional, and in that time I've worn a lot of hats and worked on a huge amount of projects.  Currently in my day job I manage a corporate team of engineers with over 450 servers located in 3 datacenters and the cloud.  I discovered crypto back when Litecoin mining was taking off, and have been actively mining since 2017.  Running a stake pool seems like a logical next step in my crypto journey, and Cardano is the right project.

I'm excited to be contributing to the Cardano ecosystem, as I believe in the goals of this project.  While my initial pledge will be small, I plan to increase it on a quarterly basis.

As  an active (except during the pandemic) actor and musician all of my life, the arts play a critical role in the maintenance of my sanity.  Therefore, a portion of all profits from the pool will be donated to performing arts organizations in my local area.

• April 2021:  Create Cardano stake pool on testnet.  Servers running in my office behind a double firewall
• May 2021:  Create public stake pool on Cardano Mainnet.  Servers running in my office.  
• Through 2021:  Evaluate performance and build the pool
• Q4 2021:  This is the likely timeframe for adding a second relay which will be in a large datacenter provider  such as AWS.
• Q1 2022:  Move all servers to AWS or other large datacenter provider.  The topology will be expanded with multiple relay servers located in geographically diverse datacenters.