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• Repositioned brand and changed go-to-market strategy to drive profitability and 100% YOY growth in less than 2 years• Established and led a successful sales & marketing team and process • Achieved all the significant milestones to position the company for long-term success.

Created, implemented, and monetized strategic plan and go-to-market strategy for a software solution that transforms biometric data (from WHOOP and other wearables) into athlete wellness and performance in youth and amateur sports.

Dedicated to deploying technology to make youth and amateur sports better, safer, and more enriching, Clear2Play was a mobile and web app that automated all forms of compliance (SafeSport, background checks, concussion, COVID, etc.) for organizations and event coordinators. Used by Olympic venues, World Championship events, and National Teams, as well as every level of sports organization, Clear2 helped mitigate risk and elevate the user experience by easily collecting real-time participant data in a convenient mobile application, reporting via a simple graphical interface with timely alerts, and archiving all interactions in a secure cloud environment for reliable, time-stamped documentation.

With the goal of eradicating athlete abuse in youth sports, we developed the Great Coach application to create greater transparency and accountability in amateur sports. Partnering with the US Center for Safesport and the leading background check companies as well as several large and exemplary sports organizations (The Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation was the best), we created reliable guardrails to celebrate great coaches, elevate mediocre ones, and get dangerous coaches away from our kids. This was a very ambitious endeavor and, as much of the youth sports world was eager to avoid any discussion of this challenge, it was much more difficult than anyone would've expected. In response to the COVID pandemic, the app and company were re-branded to Clear2Play in 2020.

Working for SportsEngine, within the NBC Sports Group, I drove growth of the RallyMe crowdfunding platform and was part of the team that evaluated emerging revenue streams via partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions.About SportsEngineHelping the world play smarter and live more, SportsEngine is the leading provider of Sport Life Management web software and mobile applications for youth, amateur, and professional sports. Powering more than 500,000 sports teams, leagues, clubs, and associations, SportsEngine features a complete suite of easy-to-use tools that help sports organizations manage, connect, and communicate with a diverse range of stakeholders, including athletes, parents, administrators, coaches, referees, scouts, volunteers, fans, journalists, and sponsors. Founded in 2008, SportsEngine is based in Minneapolis, Minn. For more information, please visit www.sportsengine.com

Helping to get and keep young people in sports by harnessing the power of the internet to raise the money toward the achievement of athletic goals.In 2011 I started a company that would help athletes and teams raise money online. After forming an excellent team, I raised investment capitol, directed the building of the best sports crowdfunding platform in the world, and took it to market. We signed 35 National Governing Bodies of Sport to exclusive multi-year contracts (from US Lacrosse to U.S. Ski & Snowboard, to USA Hockey) and helped thousands of teams and athletes raise millions of dollars. In August 2016, we sold RallyMe to NBC Universal, which then integrated it into NBC Sport's SportsEngine platform.

I wrote, produced, and directed this documentary feature film about a group of very special women who fought for their right to perform at the highest level of sport: in the Winter Olympic Games. Ready To Fly won Best Documentary at the Carmel Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the Banff Film Festival, and Best Biography at the XDance Action Sports Film Festival. Ready To Fly is currently available on Amazon Prime, iTunes and NetFlix.

I adapted a short story, wrote the script, and co-directed this film about a ground-breaking mountain rescue that happened in 1967 on the north face of the Grand Teton.

I produced a one-hour prime-time CBS 48 Hours episode, entitled Father and Son, about the mystery surrounding Uta Von Schwedler's murder in 2011. It was the top-ranked, non-sports, primetime show in the nation on the night it aired.

I've written stories and sometimes shot the accompanying photos for Fast Company, Men's Journal, Men's Health, Ski, Skiing, Powder, Snow Country, Bicycling, Bike, Mountain Bike, Mountain Bike Action, Bici de Montagna, Zurich Sport, Velo News, The Associated Press, Digital iQ, and Wired.

Salt Lake City based TFM creates high-quality documentary films, television commercials, books, television shows, print media, and internet platforms. The last commercial we produced -- for Ski City USA -- is linked here as is a short form documentary for Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Development.

I wrote, produced and directed The Edge of Never, a documentary feature film based on the book I wrote of the same title. The film was a finalist at the Banff Film Festival and the Whistler Film Festival. It was an official selection at the Telluride Mountain Film Festival. We sold the film to Showtime Networks, where it played for two years. I consider this film/book project a love letter to the ad hoc family of skiers with whom I've spent a lifetime on snowy peaks.

I wrote the book The Edge of Never, a nonfiction account of a 15-year-old kid who journeys to Chamonix, France, to attempt to ski the route that killed his famous extreme skiing father. The book was nominated for Adventure Book of the Year by the American Independent Publisher's Association and was a finalist for Book of the Year at the Banff Book Festival. I also directed a Showtime movie based on the book.

I created this company, the Wasatch Journal magazine, the web solution, and the custom publications division. From pure start-up stage – where I wrote stories, edited, sold the ads, and generally did anything that needed to be done – I built a team, brought the company to profitability, and then sold it to First Tracks Media.

I was president of this start-up medical informatics company through early planning, fundraising, launch, and product development stages. When our founder and chief scientist, John Morgan, died suddenly, we were unable to continue to raise funds and forced to close the company. The work we did to give patients accessible and understandable information about their own healthcare has, to this day, still not been equaled.

I created, wrote, fundraised and sold this documentary feature film to ABC anchorman Peter Jennings' company (which morphed into The Documentary Group). After selling the project, I was hired to write, produce, and direct. The resulting film, Steep, was released by Sony Pictures Classics in December 2007.

I created, fundraised, wrote, produced, and directed this television series pilot built around former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne and his efforts to use technology to help the poorest, most hard-working artisans in some of the world's most dangerous places through his Worldstock platform. We had a hell of an adventure in Beirut, Lebanon, including but not limited to a tense interaction with Hezbollah while filming on a deserted crusader castle overlooking Israel's Golan Heights. After getting everyone home in one piece, I managed all facets of post-production and then spent half a year negotiating with a cable television network executive who made the Hezbollah dudes look like boy scouts. In the end, this series did not find a home.

For a decade and a half I wrote ski stories for Skiing magazine.

After creating and successfully pitching a guidebook to Utah's unexpected side to Time Warner, my wife, Bel, and I spent six months blazing around the state, testing out our new marriage and motorcycle. The trip functioned as my due diligence on the State of Utah. Published immediately preceding the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games, Utah Underground took readers from coffee shops to gay bars and everywhere in between. I wrote it and Bel shot the photos. It was well received and for half a dozen years it enjoyed strong sales. I've heard that the book also had a part in convincing people that Utah was an interesting, vibrant place that confounds expectations of a mono-cultural, bland flyover state. It also convinced us to give Utah a go. That choice has worked out well. More than 20 years later, the marriage and the motorcycle continue to motor on, and we've come to call Utah our home.

In the early dot com era, LevelRed was a portal that focused on extreme sports and the electronica dance scene. With full e-commerce, a dating service, live streaming from surf contests, and free email, LevelRed was ahead of its time. I came on after the funds had been raised and the company was in trouble. I cut the burn rate and turned it into an efficient multi-media organization. Prior to the dot com crash, the company went public through a reverse merger (under the parent company's ticker symbol ZAND).

I wrote, produced, and was second-unit director for this feature film. Net Worth is a 2000 drama film that stars Todd Field, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Baldwin, Michael T. Weiss. We sold it to Blockbuster Entertainment, which made it a Blockbuster Premier.

New York, Us

Due to knowledge of skiing, snowboarding, and ice hockey, I was hired as a "fixer" to work on the Sports/News Desk. During the course of the Olympics I was given a promotion and the chance to work with Bryant Gumbel and Bill Geist to produce my own stories (which aired during prime time). Stories included a humor piece on snowboard halfpipe, the snowboarding/marijuana incident, Jonny Moseley's gold medal in moguls, Picabo Street's gold medal, and Team USA's women's ice hockey team's gold medal.

New York, Ny, Us

There once was a smart editor at Random House who thought that snowboarding was a cultural phenomenon that might be ripe for lampooning. RH had made a yacht-load of money on the Preppy Handbook back in the 1970s and this smart editor thought that snowboard culture was a whole lot like preppy culture. She searched high and low for great and famous writers to take it on. When she couldn't find one, she found me and offered me a fat check to write this book. What the hell, I figured, all my baggie-pants buddies had a sense of humor, right? Well, as it turns out, humor is all about timing. Though The Snowboarders' Total Guide To Life sold well and many thought it was pretty funny, there were also those who were not quite ready for a tongue-in-cheek, baggie-pants bashing. At the time I was also writing for a snowboard magazine. When the galleys reached my editor there, he sent me the following one-line email: "Your services are no longer needed." Like I said, humor is all about timing.

During the decade that I lived in Vail, Colorado, I made my living competing on different professional mogul skiing tours that continually changed their name due to different sponsorship deals (The World Pro Mogul Tour, The Bud Tour, The Coors Light Tour, The Dos Equis Pro Mogul Tour, The Ford Pro Mogul Tour, etc.). Starting off as a privateer, I formed a team and sold a multi-year sponsorship to PowerBar. As Captain of The PowerBar Pro Mogul Team I negotiated all of our sponsorship deals, booked coaching clinics, and kept the team working together.

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High School Diploma