Experience

XplorIt Virtual Travel

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President/Founder/Inventor

  • Jan 2013 - Present

  Driving the evolving the web to a more fun, visually engaging, game-like experience. It's Out there...Go XplorIt! Driving the evolving the web to a more fun, visually engaging, game-like experience. It's Out there...Go XplorIt!



VTour

• Founder/President

  • May 2008 - Jun 2013

  Travel in a virtual world. Move freely from place to place. See what you want to see. Go where you want to go. Do it all with VTour, the next generation of virtual reality for the web and mobile. VTour is a new HTML 5 responsive design technology platform that allows your visitors to view their path of travel and as they walk through your property. The technology allows the user to experience self selected travel as it engages, educates and entertains your guest. Our powerful multi-media player offers the most dynamic electronic storybook capabilities online today and it allows the user to experience everything there is to see and do within a hospitality, educational or health care setting.  High definition transitional imaging  Integrated audio & video  Mobil media  3-D Animation  Facebook integration  Touchscreen enabled wayfinding, entertainment, educational kiosk display capabilities  Still photography  Full screen viewing  Seamless media interactivity (no closing and reopening of separate files)  Multi Lingual International Sales Capacity  Closed Captioning – For hearing impaired & Language Translation  Interconnectivity with your on-line booking engine VTour allows you to actually move from one 360 degree hub to another with integrated videos interspersed throughout to creating an electronic storybook that unfolds with each click of your mouse. With VTour you get to experience the excitement of web based travel as you ski, drive, golf, and cycle or just stroll a new destination. Our supplemental learning paths assist visitors with directionally oriented maps, search, and jump to navigation functions. VTour provides an engaging, alternative method for a user to access the existing assets of a client’s web site and multiple VTours can be combined to create a robust economic matrix with strong cross branding opportunities. Show less



Sugar Bowl Resort

• United States
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Marketing and Sales

  • Jun 1995 - May 2008

  • Created multi-million dollar promotions w/ McDonald’s, Jeep, VISA, Wells Fargo & Safeway. • “McSki” generates $1M in annual media w/ promotion in 350 restaurants & sales of $6 M. • 13 year Jeep promotion increased brand recognition with $1.4 M in annual TV. • Created the first lift ticket gift card program in the nation with Safeway w/ sales of 72,000 tickets year one. • Developed the first integrated customer loyalty program, the CORE Mtn. Club & “True to the Core” branding. • Established the resorts first real estate marketing program generating $40 M in sales. • Successfully lobbied the California legislature for an interstate exit sign on I-80 denoting Sugar Bowl next exit. • Produced 5 National X-Games Qualifiers, 4 National Paul Mitchell American free ski & snowboard events, National Finals for the Jeep Terrain Park Challenge on CBS, the US National Alpine Championships, Red Bull Silver Belt, & 3 events under the Macy's Christmas tree in San Francisco's Union Square. Show less



Angel Fire Resort

• United States
• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Marketing and Sales

  • May 1993 - Jun 1995

  • Defined brand position as New Mexico's premier family destination and produced best skier attendance in resort's history. • Increased ski area revenues 11% by implementing a centralized skier reservations service for pre-sale of lift, lesson & rental packages that processed annual sales in excess of $250,000 annually. • Developed a 1.2 million dollar exclusive cross promotion with the North Texas & New Mexico Chevrolet dealers. • Voted 1995 New Mexico Marketer of the Year by the American Marketing Association. • Developed an extensive Real Estate marketing and sales program for the resorts vast real estate offerings. • Directed a staff of seven in all aspects of marketing, & sales for a ski & golf resort with sales of 12 million annually. Show less