Meet the Team: Derek Walker

We have a new team member!!! This week, we’re happy to introduce you to Derek Walker.

 

Favorites

Music: RHCP, Sublime, Sturgill Simpson

Show:  The Sopranos

Performer:  Durand Jones and the Indications

Podcast: Duncan Trussel Family Hour and Beau of the 5th Column

Sports team:  Cardinals, Portland Timbers, Seattle Sounders

Sport: Soccer and Tennis

Color: Maroon

Beer:  Craft beer and whatever’s in season! Summer sours, brown ales in the fall, and stouts in the winter.

Skittles or M&Ms:  Skittles

Power Ranger: Red

 

How long have you been in transportation, and how did you end up working for AMT?

1 week. And that’s a great question!

 

What do you do at AMT?

I’m training to be a Carrier Representative.

 

Any apps or gadgets you can’t live without at work?

F.lux (blue light filter)

 

What do you listen to when you’re alone in the car?

Podcasts! I might also be listening to Sublime.

 

If you could be any animal in the world, what would you be?

A koala?

 

What is the best Christmas gift you ever received? What’s the best Christmas you ever gave?

Received: Nintendo Gamecube

Given: Seattle Vacay

 

What’s the funniest thing that’s happened to you recently?

Somehow I ended up working with Moose every day!

 

Married? Kids?

Nope and Nope!

 

If someone gifted you an elephant, what would you do with it?

Let it free in the wild.

 

Any thoughts on garden gnomes?

Not enough thinkin’ power for that.

 

How do you recharge?

Truly Lemonades always help!

 

What are you currently reading? Do you have a book you’d like to recommend?

Right now I’m reading All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, and I’d recommend The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.

 

Do you have a super power?

Silence

 

What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?

“Don’t let your dreams be dreams.” –Shia