Experience

Front Row Sports Excellence

• Canada
• Sporting Goods Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Owner, President

  • Jul 1991 - Present

  Manage six retail stores with approximately 80 staff. Duties include: recruiting, marketing, strategic planning, outside sales, and customer relations. Manage six retail stores with approximately 80 staff. Duties include: recruiting, marketing, strategic planning, outside sales, and customer relations.



Sports Excellence Corporation

• Canada
• Sporting Goods
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman of the Board of Directors

  • 2012 - Present

  Attend quarterly meetings. Cover allocation of budget, staffing structure, provide medium to long term direction, validate short term direction, act as a key resource to management team in times of challenge, and liaison for shareholders.

• Hockey Purchasing Committee

  • 2005 - Present

  Create new, unique variances with major hockey suppliers, (Special Make Ups) in key hockey product categories.Work with head office to streamline hockey purchasing program with key hockey suppliers, creating additional value, as well as easier, more profitable purchasing options for the buyer members of SEC.



Fort Erie Meteors GOJHL

• Head Coach and GM

  • Jan 2020 - Jun 2020



Ontario Hockey Association

• Canada
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President, Director of hockey operations, Thorold Athletics Sr. AAA

  • Jun 2015 - Dec 2017

  Buisiness and Hockey director of Allan Cup Hockey franchise. AAA Senior. Highest level of amateur men's hockey in the world. Buisiness and Hockey director of Allan Cup Hockey franchise. AAA Senior. Highest level of amateur men's hockey in the world.



Hockey Performax

• Canada
• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Partner

  • 2010 - Apr 2016

  Partner with Hockey Mentor and Skills Developer Chris Risi. This unique hockey-specific training centre, utilizes a woodway skating treadmill, as well as the rapid shot shooting machine and newly expanded dry-land training area. Members can combine this control-based approach with hockey development camps run by Risi.. Partner with Hockey Mentor and Skills Developer Chris Risi. This unique hockey-specific training centre, utilizes a woodway skating treadmill, as well as the rapid shot shooting machine and newly expanded dry-land training area. Members can combine this control-based approach with hockey development camps run by Risi..



Thorold Blackhawks Hockey Club

• Owner, General Manager.

  • 2005 - 2013

  Direct hockey operations of team in the GOJHL. Member of the OHA. Duties include; scout, recruit, and player transactions, staffing, educational liaison, attend league/member meetings. Direct hockey operations of team in the GOJHL. Member of the OHA. Duties include; scout, recruit, and player transactions, staffing, educational liaison, attend league/member meetings.



Graf Canada

• Canada
• Sporting Goods Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Pro player services

  • 1999 - 2001

  Provided service and options with GRAF hockey products to players in the NHL, and the OHL. Switched six players from Buffalo into GRAF skates prior to the 1999 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the last time the Sabres advanced to the finals. Responsibilities included skate fitting, blade mounting and alignment, as well as profiling if required. Provided service and options with GRAF hockey products to players in the NHL, and the OHL. Switched six players from Buffalo into GRAF skates prior to the 1999 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the last time the Sabres advanced to the finals. Responsibilities included skate fitting, blade mounting and alignment, as well as profiling if required.