Gabriel Giordani

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya 'paid your dues,' you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that:

'Have ya paid your dues, Jack?' 'Yessir, the check is in the mail.'

- Jack Burton

I work in Product Management at AOL, primarily focused on mobile infrastructure and SMS. I have been working in Mobile for forever, and can't imagine doing anything else. CV is at linkedin.

Withre the above quote, I could write a ton about the philosphy of Jack Burton, but there are far better writers than I who have tackled that task. I will say this, what I love about the above is that its less about being a bad-ass, and whole lot more about surviving to fight another day.