PickTrace is proud to be a team of diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and interests. Each week we highlight members of our team to learn about what makes them, and PickTrace, unique.
Get to know PickTrace Implementations Team Lead, Max Marchand!
RAPID FIRE:
- Grew Up In: Monterrey, Mexico, on the northeast side of Mexico – about a 2hr drive from the Texas border
- Currently Lives In: San Francisco, CA
- Star Sign: Taurus
- Favorite food: It’s changed since becoming a vegetarian 2 years ago, it used to be steak and sushi, but now I just love anything that’s holistically nutritious – carbs, protein, fat – just a complete, and balanced meal
- Favorite City: The most magical place I’ve been to is a town called Oye in Norway
- What book are you reading: I’m reading the Srimrad Bhagavatam, it’s a vedic text. A 12-part super epic ‘encyclopedia of spiritual knowledge’
What’s your favorite part of working in Implementations?
- It’s all the people that I’ve met – each project brings with it between 3-10 people that you meet, not including the field
- I’ve met 100s of people working with PickTrace, you develop unique relationships with each one
- I’ve learned a lot about myself by meeting so many people
When you were in school, did you envision this kind of career for yourself?
- I’ve never known the answer to that, I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up
- All my life I’ve been good at communication, synthesizing information – so customer onboarding came naturally to me and I’m just going along with it
- When I was a really little kid I wanted to be an astronaut
What’s a favorite memory from your time at PickTrace?
- I had a really fun time at 2023’s Kick Off in San Diego at the Double Deuce country bar – I let myself a little more loose and I remember looking around feeling so grateful that I could have fun being exactly who I am with my coworkers – I was really appreciative of that.
- Also, anytime I’m on the road with someone – driving on the middle of nowhere and getting to know them is always cool and intimate
What are your hobbies and passions outside of work?
- I like to play tennis, golf and to be outside as much as I can
- My girlfriend and I like to go to restaurants with friends
- Traveling
- Reading
- I help cook and clean at the spiritual community I’m part of
- I play video games with my friends
- Watch One Piece
Do you have any guiding principles that you live by?
- The first is that “more than in God, you must believe in yourself”
- The second is that “The power of God trumps all the other powers”
If you were a fruit or vegetable what would you be and why?
I would be a potato – the world’s best vegetable. They are versatile, nutritious, easy to grow, and they last a long time. They are a lifeline to society much like grain is. Long live potatoes.
