Our Team

I showed my cow at the county fair for 4H and won 3rd place at the county fair demolition derby.

I backpacked Australia & New Zealand for two months, where I went scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef!

I was on Second City's Main Stage and performed many years of Improv and standup comedy. I also make custom make muppets.

I once traveled the American West on a motorcycle for 3 months, racking up over 18,000 miles.

I moved to Ireland to live and work for 6 months after college.

I've been to Disney World over 35 times.

I learned how to swim before I could walk.

I've met the whole cast of Saved by the Bell. Kelly Kapowski even gave me a big hug!

I can't smell out of my left nostril.

I love to bake, especially around the holidays, my kitchen is full of all kinds of goodies.

I'm currently trying to complete the Baseball Park Bucket List. Most of my vacations are planned around baseball games.

I could eat pizza for every meal for the rest of my life and not get sick of it.

My great grandfather is a documented gangster.

Before joining Topstep, I’ve had the good fortune of being a founder—or a member of the founding team—of 3 companies.

Won an Emmy in 2009.

I moved 14 times in a 4.5 year span.

Before working at Topstep, I was a professional classical musician for 7 years and can be heard on Spotify.

I coach ultimate (frisbee).

My 4 brothers are named Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael.

I love horror genre and creepy stuff, including but not limited to Halloween, scary movies, and true crime.

Danced at 100+ Grateful Dead shows.

I crashed Courtney Cox's (Friends) 36th birthday party.

I ran from San Francisco to New York City in 2011.

In my late 20's, I took a year sabbatical with my wife backpacking the west coast of South America and Southeast Asia.

I have walked into a parked car, been hit with a boomerang, and clotheslined by a handrail. However, I have never broken a bone.

I played in a national baseball tournament and an international hockey tournament in Canada as an adult.

I have skydived 3 times.

I won a coin flip to go to game 5 of the 2016 World Series.

Wrote a musical based on the life of the 90s film icon Brendan Fraser.

I wore a Spider-Man costume to school every day until I was 10.

I have read/watched science fiction from every continent.

I did a last-minute road trip to Atlanta the night before a music festival to see The Killers and then completely missed their set.

I had a life-saving open heart surgery when I was 5!

I've scaled Everest twice in a tank top.

I had amnesia for 18 hours and was found 100 miles from my home.

I have 2 signed albums from K-pop Group IZ*ONE!

In 7th grade, I got in trouble for selling snacks to my classmates during lunch. The teachers were jealous of my snack selling empire.

I spent 8 days camping on Isle Royale in Lake Superior.

I play drums for a metal band!

I have never broken a bone.

I have no cousins!

I can fit 12 mini marshmallows up my nose.

I've never gotten a parking ticket.

I'm an ex real estate investor.

I've had two Super Bowls held on my birthday in my hometown of New Orleans.

I've eaten dinner with James Taylor.

I also work on the BLUECHXP team, where we are building a safer, smarter gateway to the stock market!

I freed all the animals at Pet Supplies Plus in Oak Park in March of 2014.

I've been to 15 restaurants featured in Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.

My family's last name was Fizer before my dad moved to the U.S.

The Dow lost 11,000 points in the time between my interview at Topstep and my job offer :)

I keep all of my shoes in their original boxes.

I've attended a World Series game (Game 1 of the 2018 WS at Fenway Park).

Scuba dived in every country I ever been to.

I used to have a few sponsorships for Snowboarding.

Spent an academic year of undergrad in Bilbao, Spain. Best time of my life.

I've swam in a lake in the crater of a volcano.

I've worked at Medieval Times as a knight.

I've watched the TV sitcom Frasier 3 times and counting.

I've traveled all over the country by train, including to Miami, Berkeley, and Tucson.

I am a 3 time marathon finisher.

I have climbed to the top of Mount Elbert, the second highest peak in the contiguous United States.