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Twelve years of event management and action sports industry experience, including running the largest BMX freestyle events in Canada between 1994 and 2001 in Nelson, British Columbia, and working for BMX brands such as GT Bicycles and SST and for Airwalk.
Ph.D. from McGill University in Communications (dissertation subject - BMX Freestyle culture and the media). 
I have been a professor for the past ten years, but looking for a career change and a warmer climate.
BMX Freestyler for 36 years.  Started skateboarding in 1986, and snowboarding in 1989. Retired Roller Derby referee (2009 - 2015).


Taught fifty undergraduate courses over ten years at four universities. Taught in departments of Communication Studies, Rhetoric, Writing and Communications, Women's and Gender Studies, and Sociology. Recently was awarded a prestigious teaching award as the top-ranked professor in Social Sciences at The University of New Brunswick for 2016 - 2017 for the previous year in which I taught two classes of Sociology of Sport, and courses in Popular Culture, Film, Masculinities and Promotional Culture.

Assistant Professor / Course Lecturer

Was in charge of securing talent and was Master of Ceremonies for an annual cross-Canada tour which featured snowboarding, skateboarding, BMX freestyle and inline skating demonstrations, along with a mainstage featuring top musical acts. The unique draw was the giant 30ft snow quarterpipe that was constructed on scafolding and snow-making equipment.
My two main responsibilities were inviting and securing the professional BMX athletes ( I managed between thirteen and twenty athletes each year) and announcing for the skateboarding, BMX, and inline slating events. 
I worked as a liaison between the event management company, the sponsors, and the athletes, always putting the athletes first (happy athletes serve the promoters best, anyways).

Athlete Coordinator

Easily obtained pertinent work visas (as a "Management Consultant") to work for a (then) prominent BMX freestyle brand in Southern California. Was given a 66% raise within a month of arriving. My business cards read "Customer Service" - and as our customer list included most of the other BMX freestyle bicycle brands, my assignment was often to fly to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and / or China to service them. Much of my time was spent traveling the United States and to Asia.


Management Consultant / Sales Manager / Customer Service

On two separate occasions, was asked to fly in and act as on-site Team Manager for the GT Bicycles Freestyle Team at B3 ESPN events when the regular managers were not available (Woody Itson and Robert Castillo). The first such event was at an event at Seal Beach, California, the second for an event at the Chelsea Piers in Manhattan, NYC.
Duties included making sure everyone on the team made it from the airport to the hotel, making sure everyone was fed and generally comfortable, making sure everyone was registered for the event, and acting as pit crew should equipment fail. In New York, my duties also included escorted one of the Pros to the emergency room with a major concussion and a split-open chin.

On-site Team Manager

Was hired to help run the on-site promotions for Airwalk shoes for the 1996 B3 ESPN tour (four events - Chicago, San Diego, New York City, and Seal Beach, CA). Duties including the setting up and break-down of the tent, working in the tent over the weekend, and securing Airwalk-sponsored Pros (skateboard and BMX) for autograph sessions.

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