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Director of White Pine Touring Nordic Center. White Pine is a full service ski area with lessons, rentals, trail system, retail and service operations.

10weekwinter provides business and strategic consulting services for winter sport, recreation and product providers with a primary focus on Nordic skiing and services.Climate impacts and weather patterns are changing throughout the world and are beginning to affect the businesses that provide and support winter recreation. Those businesses that are able to develop the resilience and flexibility to respond to unexpected situations are most likely to survive and thrive in the coming decades.10weekwinter can help you explore the opportunities for sport, recreation and seasonal diversification that it will take to remain viable and successful. 10weekwinter will help you develop more flexible operating plans, explore the possibilities for strategic snowmaking and expand activities into the growing shoulder seasons will determine your long-term success as a resort owner, operator or trail system manager. 10weekwinter has resources available to discuss enhancing trail design to serve an increasingly diverse set of winter and shoulder-season trail users. Developing, funding, implementing and managing fun and challenging snowshoe trails, snowbike trail integration and nordic terrain park features into your business will increase your attractiveness in a safe and positive way.10weekwinter can advise you on pricing strategies, marketing approaches, funding strategies and hospitality successes that will help grow your revenues, manage your costs and enhance your customer’s value.10weekwinter can advise you on techniques and approaches that may help you improve your chances of receiving funding grants, help develop cooperative funding programs, and provide you with strong tools to support your relationships with sponsors, suppliers and your local community.

Regional Development Coach for U.S. Paralympics Nordic Skiing. Working with disabled youth and adult athletes, athletic programs, health providers, and organizations to introduce and promote cross country skiing and biathlon opportunities.

Executive Director of the non-profit Soldier Hollow Legacy Foundation. The Soldier Hollow Legacy Foundation operated the Soldier Hollow Olympic and Paralympic cross country ski and biathlon venue in Midway, Utah. The Foundation merged its assets and operations May 1, 2016 into the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation that represents other former 2002 Olympic facilities and began its legal dissolution. The takeover was a step in the effort to solidify the capital and operating resources of Utah's recreation and competition legacy.Functions included: Financial Management, Budgeting, Human Resources, Marketing, Operations, Legal and Financial oversight functions, Program Development for Local, Regional, National and International recreation, training and competition events. Activities included: Project Development and Management, Change Management, Resource Development, Capital Programming, Operations Management, Grants and Development, Team Building, Competition Development, Sponsorship Development, Sports Programming, Youth Sport DevelopmentSoldier Hollow was the site of the cross-country and biathlon competitions at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Located in Midway, UT inside Wasatch Mountain State Park, Soldier Hollow offers year-round training and winter recreation facilities for elite and recreational athletes. Features include nordic skiing, biathlon, tubing hill, K-6 charter school, Team Soldier Hollow youth ski programs, ski racing, ski lessons, ski rentals, trail running, mountain biking, horseback riding, hiking, summer competition events, recreation events, social and business events.

501c3 Non-Profit Nordic Ski Club in Utah

Program/Project Manager for the development and deployment of advanced transportation technologies at Utah Transit Authority.Direct responsibility for project management, design, procurement and implementation of projects.