Chris McDonald

Experience

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  Intrepid Travel

  Mar 2009 - Nov 2015

  Assist in management of several different travel brands. Worked with Trek America, Intrepid Travel, and Topdeck Travel. Write and Edit trip notes, confirm contracts, and work with VendorsDuring peak season manage up to 20 leaders, and train incoming group leaders. Led overland camping tours across US, Alaska and Canada. Trips ranged from 2-9 weeks. Drove a 15-seat passenger van with trailer (32 ft in total). Organized camping reservations and sold activities to passengers through venders across the US. Led hikes through various national parks and provincial parks. Gave daily-briefings on the history, geography and tourist information on the location we were arriving to that day. Worked on several coach tours for Topdeck Travel

  • Assistant Deputy Operations Manager

    Apr 2014 - Nov 2015

  • Tour Leader

    Mar 2009 - Mar 2015
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  AmeriCan Adventures

  Mar 2014 - Jan 2016

  Assistant Operations Manager

  Assist in management of several different travel brands. Worked with Trek America, Intrepid Travel, and Topdeck Travel. Write and Edit trip notes, confirm contracts, and work with VendorsDuring peak season manage up to 20 leaders, and train incoming group leaders. Train for Topdeck Travel and facilitate their training trip in North America(this company was originally PEAK adventure travel which i work for as a manager since March 2014)

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  AmeriCan Adventures

  Jan 2017 - now

  Training Manager will oversees the training of Group Leaders for AmeriCan Adventures. Directly manages all classroom training and oversees on-the-road training of first year group leaders. This position also provides support for first year Leader Recruitment as needed. Operations and Training manager at American Adventures. Trains and manages 50 plus leaders year on year. Oversees day to day management of leaders as well as development. Facilitates four training programs over the course of the year, and helps in the recruitment process. Works with brands to develop product for new and existing trips.

  • Training Manager

    Jan 2016 - now

  • Operations Manager

    Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
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  Nest Investment

  Aug 2019 - now

  Multi Tasker, real esate investor, and busy body
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  Mike's Bikes

  Apr 2020 - now

  Sales Associate