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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Hired, on-boarded and product trained two new stores teams, the HQ and Traverse Mountain, Lehi location to prepare for the holiday season. Opened the Traverse Mountain and Trolley Square locations by designing the store layout, creating the fixtures and visually merchandising the space. Wrote and organized Standard Operating Procedures for all of retail.

Reno, Nevada Area

Positively guided and influenced a customer experience department in constant transition. Mentored peer group by streamlining processes and provided templates for new Supervisors to utilize when on-boarding in a short amount of time. Designed and implemented learning modules and soft skills content such as conflict resolution, prioritization, how to have.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

The University of Utah has one of the finest outdoor recreation programs in the nation. Design coursework and facilitate the curriculum. This environment allows the opportunity to hone communication and problem-solving skills in a vertical world, using a 2-rope protection system.~Swiftly create an environment of trust with new students in unfamiliar.

Cottonwood Heights, UT

Salt Lake City

Brought in to help company transition from a seasonal to year round business with the merger of Bikewagon.com. Designed store and bike/ski shop layout and created unique fixtures to display merchandise in a consumer friendly fashion. Responsible for hiring, on-boarding and conducting all systems and product training.

Salt Lake City Outlet Store

Created a retail environment that was innovative, unique, inspired, customer friendly, and reflective of the local community that brought the Patagonia story and mission statement to life. Upheld the company's mission by using the store as a theater to bring environmental and community issues to life through education and inspiration for customers to act.

Sandy, Utah

Oversaw and directed three Supervisors, an Administrative and Visual presentation specialist along with 10 full time and 50+ part time employees serving 3.4 million customers in Utah’s Designated Market Area (DMA), the largest in the United States, coordinated sales and payroll resources of over $34 million in 2012.~Project Manager for SAP conversion.

Denver Flagship, Colorado

Supervised Action Sports department, elected from outside the company which boasts an 87% hiring from within ratio, for this critical role. The store transitioned into the original power plant in Denver, tripling its square footage and quadrupling its employee base in the move.~Dramatically increased productivity, improved processes and fostered teamwork.

Denver, CO

Tom Sims was a pioneer in the snowboard industry, carving the way for this action sports brand to design, market and sell some of the most innovative snowboard hard goods and clothing apparel since the early 1970s.~ Serviced the Rocky Mountain region, including CO, UT, WY, NM and lower ID~ Support over 150+ accounts through sales and service along with on.

Woodinville, WA

Denver, CO

Honors Bachelor Of Science (Hbs), Management, Magna Cum Laude 3.929

Activities and Societies: Honors College Think Tank on Astronomy member / Co-creator of Honors 3400 Planets and Pedagogy class / Helped.

Associate Of Science (As), Business, 3.93 High Honors

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honor SocietyPresident's List