Hi, I’m Daniel Reyes.
Operations manager by day. Little League coach, 5K runner, and undefeated backyard grill champion the rest of the time.
📍 Maple Grove, Minnesota · 41 · husband, dad of two, dog dad of one
Operations manager by day. Little League coach, 5K runner, and undefeated backyard grill champion the rest of the time.
📍 Maple Grove, Minnesota · 41 · husband, dad of two, dog dad of one
I’m Daniel. I grew up in Duluth, came down to the Twin Cities for school, and never really left. Fifteen years ago I started on a warehouse floor driving a forklift; these days I run operations for a regional freight company — same industry, better chair, same affection for a well-loaded truck.
Home is Maple Grove, with my wife Sarah, our kids Leo (10) and Mia (7), and a golden retriever named Biscuit who believes every meal cooked in this house is partly his. If it’s Saturday, I’m either at a ballfield, on a trail, or standing over a grill with strong opinions about charcoal.
This little site is just my corner of the internet — one place where everything about me is in one spot, instead of scattered across six apps. Glad you found it.
Nothing glamorous — I keep freight moving and fix the day’s problems before they become the week’s problems. Fifteen years, one company, three chairs:
Run day-to-day operations for a regional distribution center — a team of about 40, a lot of trucks, and a whiteboard I’d be lost without.
Second shift. Learned that most “people problems” are actually schedule problems, and most schedule problems are actually communication problems.
Started on the forklift, ended up training the new folks. Still the best education I’ve had in how work actually gets done.
Sarah and I met at a friend’s bonfire in 2009 and got married in 2013. Leo, our oldest, is the reason I coach: he joined Little League at six and I signed up to “help out” — four seasons later I’m Coach Daniel to a dozen kids, keeper of the lineup card and the snack schedule. Mia is seven, undefeated at Uno, and the only person in the house Biscuit actually listens to.
Weekends are pretty predictable, in the best way: early run, farmers market, a game or two, and something on the grill by six. Winters are for the rec-league hockey I swear I’ll quit every year and never do.
Three mornings a week before the house wakes up. Not fast, not quitting. Training for my second half marathon this fall.
Maple Grove Half 2024 — 1:58:42 (broke two hours, barely)
Lakes 10K 2025 — 52:17
Charcoal, not gas — hill I will die on. Burgers are the house specialty; the brisket is a work in progress and everyone here is brave about it.
Specialty: smash burgers · Weakness: ribs, still learning
Amateur in the true sense: one camera, one lens, ten thousand photos of my dog. The kids tolerate about four posed shots before negotiating snacks.
Current streak: a photo a day, 200+ days
Four seasons with the Maple Grove 10U crew. We teach hitting, fielding, and the radical idea that striking out is just information.
Career record: irrelevant · Team snack game: elite
Old friend, fellow coach, ops person, neighbor with a grill question — this lands right in my inbox.
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