Experience

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  YT Industries GmbH

  • Professional freeride mountain bike athlete

    • Jan 2017 - Present

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  Brett Tippie Action Sports Inc.

  • Live Events Host

    • 1993 - Present

    Announcing services, colour commentating, play by play, on air host for events such as Redbull Crashed Ice, GRC Rallycross, FIS World Cup Mens downhill and GS, Snowboardcross.

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  Self employed

  • North Vancouver, British Columbia

  • Professional Athlete

    • 1994 - Present
    • North Vancouver, British Columbia

    Freeride Mountain Bike athlete. Inducted into the MTB Hall of Fame in 2010.Sponsored by: Rocky Mountain Bicycles, Raceface Performance Products,SR Suntour, Evoc, Kingsbridge Disaster Recovery, Easton, Niterider, Giro, Fiveten, Specialty Skills:20 + years research and development specialist in the Bike, Ski, Outdoor arenaBusness growth through social mediaBrand Building and identificationOnline marketing and cross promotionCreative Consulting, marketing campaigns, both traditional print and onlineAthlete sponsorship, negotiation, promotion, protocol, obligations and strategies. Current Mountain Bike Announcing and MC work:• play by play commentator live at Redbull Crashed Ice• play by play commentator live at Redbull GRC Rallycross Pinkbike.com online host for premiere MTB events, Mountain biking's biggest website - Host of Crankworx daily webisodes, Redbull Rampage for multiple websites. • Live events announcer for most major BC MTB events• Daily webisodes for World Cup, and World Championships for Pinkbike.com • Deep Summer Photographer's Shootout featured rider multiple times• BCBR On course announcer• Hundreds of full pages of magazine exposure, interviews, riding photos yearly since 1995, one of the most photographed riders to date• Appeared in 1st ever MTB feature film, Pulp Traction, filmed for Burton's Shadrach Meschack Agnedigo, Warren Miller's Born to Ski, Tao of Riding, Kranked 1 - 4, and more. Over 25 film appearances for sport.Current Snowboard/skiing announcing and MC work:• World Cup Olympic Test Downhill and GS ski colour commentator. Announcing BC Snowboard Association slopestyle and snowboardcross events across BC, World Cup SBX Lake LouiseFully NCCP qualified coach for both MTB and Snowboarding. Coaching year round for ESC Escape Adventures, Camp of Champions, North Shore Snowboard Team, RBC Riders.

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  Rocky Mountain Bicycles

  • Vancouver, BC

  • Professional Rider, Brand Ambassador, Product Tester

    • Jan 1997 - Jan 2017
    • Vancouver, BC

    athlete

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  APTN Network

  • various

  • Co-host

    • Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
    • various

    Guest Host for photography/sports action multiple 1/2 hr episodic television to be aired 2016

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  Raceface Performance Products

  • Professional Rider, Brand Ambassador, Social Media Blogger, Product Tester.

    • 1996 - Jun 2015

    athlete, R&D, product development

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  CTV Sportsnet "World Cup of Snowboarding

  • Colour Commentator/Reporter

    • Jan 1999 - Jan 2002

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  CTV Sportsnet

  • Canada

  • Television Host

    • 1999 - 2002
    • Canada

    television series "The Sacred Ride" – Co-HostA half hour freeride/backcountry/snowboard television series..

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  Canada Snowboard

  • Canadian National Team member for GS and SBX

    • 1997 - 2000

    Canadian National Team member for GS and SBX multiple top 15 place finishes in World Cup GS and Snowboard Cross

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  Burton Snowboards

  • Canada

  • Team Burton Pro Snowboard Racer

    • 1994 - 2000
    • Canada

    Snowboardcross and GSMultiple top 10 Pro Tour results 2000 1st place Canadian Grand National Boardercross Championships