Andrea Thiessen Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I have been working in Real Estate since 2009.

Vancouver

I have been working in Real Estate (officially) since 2009. I enjoy house hunting and doing housing research. My past experience as event planner and company owner I had to be extremely organized and detailed, it is the same with Real Estate. On the listing side I can provide exceptional service, creative marketing strategies and friendly service. I have a.

Granville Island

I am passionate about sailing. During spring and summer of 2011 I worked with Cooper Boating on selling boats and course sales. It was a great opportunity to learn a ton about boats, I was able to get out onto the water and made a bunch of new friends.

• Responsible for developing a new event division at Banff Lake Louise Tourism
• Developed and organized three new events in Banff National Parkincluding a Bike Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and a Food and Wine Festival
• Event operations and execution of five events in Banff National Park
• Responsible for working with Parks Canada in submitting applications and environmental assessments for events

• Managing Director for Calgary office of a national DestinationManagement and Production Company
• Sales and destinations sells for Calgary and the Canadian Rockies
• Event operations and execution for incentive travel groups and salesmeetings
• Worked with hotels for meeting space, event requirements and set-up

• Organized and implemented part of or all aspects of several key eventsincluding; TransRockies Challenge, UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, LakeLouise Ski World Cup, Bike Calgary Festival, TOSHIBA Celebrity Ski Invitational.
• Event sales and sponsorship proposals
• Website development and media relations (over 12 of the events I have been involved in have been televised)
• Volunteer and staff coordination

I was the event organizer for the TransRockies event in Canada. I worked with an amazing team from Germany who started the event in Europe called the TranAlps. This was one of the most challenging yet most exciting events that I have organized as it included everything from working with the Alberta Government on permits to figuring out how we were going to.

• Coordinated and managed sport celebrity events across Canada forWorld Cup skier and Olympian Ken Read
• Responsible for media relations, sponsorship and advertising for the TOSHIBA “Breath of Life” Celebrity Ski Challenge (awarded bestcelebrity ski event by Ski Canada Magazine)
• Event manager for the INGLE Nor-Am Ski series and the SMEDInternational Ski Challenge

• Advertising coordination and project direction in corporate marketingstrategies
• Responsible for the management and sales of several key accountsincluding Shoppers Drug Mart, Coca-Cola, Molson’s and the CalgaryStampede

Ba, Recreation Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Recreation Management