Name: Lieutenant Izel
Race: Caitian
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Position: Operations/ Communications Officer
Service Record:
2378- Accepted to Starfleet Academy
2380- Cadet Cruise: USS Bellephoron
2381- Graduation, promotion to Ensign.
Assigned to USS Sutherland, Operations.Promotion to Lieutenant (jg).
2382- Warning noted on record for "dancing incident"
Transferred to USS Potemkin. Operations.
Promoted to Lieutenant.
Commendations for cool under pressure, tactical decisions.
2383- Current Day: Transfer to USS Wanderer (pending)
Pre-Starfleet:
Izel's family has had a long service record within Starfleet, her father having served during the early parts of the Dominion War on the USS Zhukov, grandfather being a commander aboard the USS Berlin and great-uncle served aboard the USS Grissom when it was destroyed.

It was this history in which she was raised back home, living a fairly comfortable life with her parents being honored citizens due to her sire's history in Starfleet.
During her school days, she was always flitting back from one subject to another, finding curiosity with most subjects but ultimately feeling a bit of jack of all trades. It made her a little listless, so she started taking up sports and dancing, but ultimately finding out that the inherent nuts and bolts of working a ship seemed to suit her.

As she started her path to Starfleet academy, she spun that aptitude into the operations track.  She threw herself into that line with the common exuberance of her race, learning several languages to help out in communications to add to her epxertise.

Izel enjoys beauty in all its forms; generally this is expressed in art and song, but also in the traditional dances and rituals of her people.  This has gotten her in a bit of a scrape now and then with the more conservative races that she's been around, as Caitian society is quite open and curious to new experiences.  But she often shakes off any awkwardness with a soft chuckle and a purr in her voice as her playful nature takes over, sometimes even leaning into that awkwardness just to amuse herself.  (One incident had her dancing in the nude on the holodeck intentionally in front of several older visiting officers who'd gotten on her captain's bad side.)

Description: Standing at just under 6' tall, she is an athletic 190 lbs, with a dancer's build and the usual dextrous grace of her people.  She often as a playful smirk on her face, accented by her saberteeth (a trait that's a genetic throwback to her people but has been a hallmark of her bloodline for generations.)  Even on duty she tends to wear her uniform a bit loose, preferring a slightly midriff baring crop of her uniform to allow more free room for her tail.