Folks, we’d like to introduce you to a new Lizard. Travis Applegate joined us before the holidays as our inside sales support rep, renewing licenses for our existing customers. He fits right in here — we put him through an ordeal by fire at our holiday white elephant gift exchange and he came through with flying colors — and we think you’ll like him, too.

New Lizard Travis Applegate.

Travis is a Portland native who’s spent some effort trying to find the city that’s the right fit for him. He found Portland a touch confining, while Chicago had a little too much echo (and snow). He settled in Seattle, where he has worked for the Cobalt Group as an order manager, the University of Phoenix as an enrollment counselor, and Seattle Weekly as an account executive. Since the Weekly‘s offices are directly above us (in fact, from a geospatial viewpoint he works in the exact same position in the building as he did before, just fifteen feet lower on the Z axis), we can tease him that coming to us represents a downward move. That’s not the way Travis sees it, though, and we’re glad to have him on our team as he brings enthusiasm and dedication and his sales and other experience to the job.

Travis is big into music in many forms, but in particular live shows and vinyl records. His prize platter is London Calling by The Clash — he would prefer it if it were the UK import first pressing, which it’s not, but since it’s his favorite album in any format he still ranks it at the top. He also loves to dabble with musical instruments and jokes that he has failed to master a great many of them. He also likes to get out into the woods and mountains and other remote places, proximity to which is one reason he cites for having hunkered down here in Seattle, where, in case you haven’t heard, we’re surrounded by mountain ranges, islands, bodies of water, and forests.

Welcome to the team, Travis!