Employee Bios

Product Designer

It’s terrifying to think Oskar has a commercial pilot’s license when you consider that a single slice of bread could bring the whole plane down. This gluten-intolerant psycho-celiac also somehow found time, between Croc-clad living-room workouts and single-entrant slam dunk contest championships, to snag both a degree in finance from Santa Clara University and a Guinness World Record for hours of classes attended from a chairlift. Oskar is the reigning DECKED Pickleball Tourney Champ: at somewhere between 6’4” and 8 feet tall (depending on the height of the person you ask), he’s towered over the competition for two straight years. Judging by his last growth spurt, his former role as “Growth Manager” was clearly outside his skillset, so these days our in-house Sasquatch spends his days turning DECKED dreams into reality. In his spare time, he enjoys skiing like an Olympian, fly fishing like a Zen master, and bow-hunting elk like a 2am bar patron 15 Jäger-bombs deep trying to get a phone number.

Producer

Kate is our very own Simba: Everything the light touches is her kingdom. Any DECKED images and videos that make you spit-take your Montucky Cold Snack and go, “Hell yeah!” have likely been touched by her famous hands. The former tweezer hand-model plucked herself from her native Oregon, home of craft breweries and ¼ of the U.S. llama population, in favor of gin & tonics in the state responsible for ⅓ of U.S. potatoes. Kate graduated from Westminster College in SLC with a B.S. in Environmental Science, churning out a no-BS dissertation on maintaining a healthy GPA-to-powder-day ratio. And while you’re still busy fawning over her work, she’s already made the 4-hour pilgrimage to Trader Joe’s and back and is out with her pup, Abbey, paddling, fishing, hiking, running, biking, or skiing 3 different ways - fueled by lactose-free ice cream and comforted by the knowledge she’s far from most varieties of olives.

Automation Engineer

Most people leave a pool party with a sunburn and a hangover. Dan went to one and ended up with first place in the science fair after strapping a sphygmomanometer to his pals in between cannonballs and presenting his “findings”. Obviously destined for academic greatness, he earned a degree in Integrated Engineering from Southern Utah U. Dan is the consummate family man, living it up with Lali (his adoring wife), two whip-smart kids, one Lab, and a condescending pug whose voice is strikingly similar to Dan’s. When his wife and the pug aren’t jeering him for the old “lefty-tighty/righty-loosey” or other an-engineer-should-know-better blunder, you can find him chucking his cell phone out the side of some fast machine as he blazes away from any large gathering of people. A man of culture, he reads code like it’s Shakespeare and takes his coffee black, his chocolate with peanut butter, and his macroeconomics with a splash of impending doom.

Head of Strategic Finance

Some athletes go to high altitude to train. Brian prepared for trail running and ski touring the lung-crushing peaks of Idaho by climbing the soul-crushing corporate ladder of Wall Street. A 2-time finisher of the Leadville MTB 100, he loves any activity that feels to most of us like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer: it feels good when you stop. The Chicago native was his mom’s top draft pick for the White Sox after pitching a shut-out in Little League, and after batting 1000 in his professional life, his only failure was attempting to live the ski bum life: he lasted a year before he came crawling to DECKED for a cushy office chair. Somehow, Brian still logs 100+ days on the hill each winter, though some believe he counts a backcountry day as two. His in-house forecasting and accounting is more accurate, keeping our spreadsheets tighter than a [redacted by mgmt].

Executive Producer

With a bizarre aversion to the classic cartoon Popeye, Andrew never could acquire a taste for spinach - a nutritional powerhouse that might have helped him stay “strong to the finish” pursuing his hoop dreams across three different colleges. After a hat-trick of two broken feet and a blown-out knee, the corn-fed, born-and-bred Iowan hobbled like a peg-legged sailor all the way to Switzerland (the Iowa of Europe), where he lived for 15 years. A 10+ year veteran of the UN, Andrew became known to friends and enemies as “The Diplomat”, though he appears to have no living enemies. Andrew may not have been built for the Final Four, but in other arenas, his stamina is unparalleled: he is father to, as he puts it, “six total kids,” which has many in the office wondering how many partial children he has around his San Francisco home.

Molding Supervisor

Local legend holds that Adam swam the 30 miles upstream from his Liberty  Center, OH, hometown to relocate to Defiance, surviving by chomping  down walleye and flathead catfish like an aquatic “Pac-Man” (a nickname  he goes by to this day). Adam’s basically a living Luke Bryan song: if  he could make a living “huntin’, fishin’, and lovin’ every day,” well,  you can bet there’d be an Adam-shaped hole in the wall of our molding  facility and a 2-stroke dirt cloud that’d make the Dust Bowl look like a  mouse-fart on a sawmill floor. In his free time, you can find him with  his wife Danielle, their baby boy, and two Labs at a family bonfire,  staring out at the cornfields and enjoying his own Field of Dreams  moment as the Cleveland Browns return from the land of the dead like  “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.

NetSuite Administrator

With an intolerance for loud noises, Alex is the rare DECKED’er who chooses the quiet of a cargobike over the rumble of a truck to haul heavy shit. It’s impressive, but we’d never say that to his face. The U of Utah grad enjoys cultivating tomatoes, but doesn't eat tomatoes, which seems to indicate he’s really cultivating some type of pastoral-hipster image in his Salt Lake City ‘hood. With a fondness for the spicier side of cuisine, the Twin Cities native is a 3-time winner of the Annual Welton Family Spiciest Pepper Championship. When he isn’t seasoning his food with fire ants, Alex spends time backcountry skiing and stumbling around exotic locales (30+ countries and counting) while sampling the local intoxicant beverages. He loves getting outside with his dogs and eats exclusively vegetarian at home, which conveniently leaves the other 196.99993 million square miles of earth’s surface for consuming a variety of animal flesh.

Quality Manager

The only thing Chuck’s done longer than Quality Control is play golf. And while he blames work for the silver hairs adorning his dome, we suspect it’s his golf game: ever a man of the numbers, he’s quick to note that the incredibly unlikely odds of his 2-on-a-par-5 Albatross (6 million to one) don’t soften the blow of a hole-in-one (12,500 to one) having eluded him. The only thing he loves more than a day spent wandering around a well-manicured meadow with a bag of blunt instruments is his family. Married for 37 years (still not as long as he’s been moseying about carefully coiffed fields with a cart of expensive sticks), the Defiance, OH, lifer and his wife Liz are proud parents to two boys, and grandparents to identical twin girls. All of whom, he insists, love that his alarm clock plays George Strait’s “Amarillo by Morning.” At full volume. Every day. At 5am.

Community Marketing Manager

Casey's application for U of Oregon included tidbits about nearly  torching the family homestead with a bottle rocket at age 9 (a tale of  survival) and winning an award in his high school Apparel & Design  class (a tale of triumph) which had a gal-to-guy ratio of 29:1 (a tale  of genius). His buoyant positivity keeps office morale afloat, but that  metaphor is where his aquatic ability ends: despite spending more time  around water chasing food than a ‘gator with a tapeworm, he can barely  tread water. His strengths lean towards pursuing game (particularly beak  bending and cock walks) and fishing (fly, spin, cast, probably  noodling). If it’s in-season and has a weird name, Casey’s into it. The  only thing he loves more is his Home Team, consisting of wife Taylor and  their two dogs, Maude and Blanche. Casey lives by “carpe diem,” with a  strong distaste for “glass-half-empty” mentalities. Unless that glass is  half-full of olives, in which case he’d prefer to smash the glass and  run away screaming.