Scot Lee

Past

• Director at Loveland Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center
• General Manager at Mountain Sports

Education

• Professional Courses, Seminars and Training
• Front Range Community College
• University of Houston

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Recommended

7 people have recommended Scot

Connections

101 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• Twitter Profile

Scot Lee’s Summary

Professional Focus

Non-profit sector, specifically local based organizations or ones with headquarters or significant regional presence in Northern Colorado (current or anticipatory), including: environmental, humanitarian and civil rights.

Economic development sector, specifically small business and entrepreneurial support through governmental entity or other public organization, including: city/county/state government, economic gardening programs and small business development network.

Organizations with a focus on community, including private and public sector organizations such as: senior services or retirement communities, regional or local business groups, retail coalitions, organizations and shopping centers.

Scot Lee’s Specialties:

Management and business operations
Community outreach and development
Niche development, branding and marketing
Internet and website solutions

Scot Lee’s Experience

• Director

  Loveland Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  October 2003 — July 2009 (5 years 10 months)

  President & CEO (Interim), 2008
  Associate Director, 2004-2008
  Visitors Center Director, 2003-2009
  Business Strategist & Consultant (Loveland Economic Gardening Program) 2005-2008
  Membership Services Coordinator, 2004-2009
  Office Manager, 2003-2004
  
  Responsibilities: All facets of chamber of commerce functions, visitor center and gift shop operations and management, event planning, community outreach, networking functions, and all areas related to the operation of an economic gardening program.

• General Manager

  Mountain Sports

  (Privately Held; Events Services industry)

  May 1988 — May 2003 (15 years 1 month)

  General Manager, 1999-2003
  Store and Operations Manager, 1994-1999
  Buyer/Assistant Manager, 1989-1994
  Associate, 1988-1989
  
  Independent retailer in the Outdoor Industry, management and oversight of 2 store locations including 40 staff with sales volume of $2.9m and $1m retail inventory.
  
  Responsibilities: Oversight of company’s two, retail-store locations including leadership, training, support, and supervision of store management, marketing, purchasing, merchandising, accounting, and e-commerce teams and departments: administrator for company information systems.

Scot Lee’s Education

• Professional Courses, Seminars and Training

  business, marketing, internet, retail 1989 — 2009

  Formal and/or professional instruction in the areas of: business & entrepreneurial consulting services, geographic information systems (GIS), entrepreneurial personality & temperament assessment, marketing, website & search engine optimization, personnel management, retail operations, purchasing, and product merchandising.

• Front Range Community College

  1989 — 1990

• University of Houston

  1987 — 1987

Additional Information

Scot Lee’s Websites:

• Twitter Profile

Scot Lee’s Interests:

Reading, strategy war games (board & minis), pc & video games (Warcraft, Xbox) hiking/camping, watchin birds and wild critters and generally just drinking the cup of nature (and a little wine from time to time) a little fishing now and then, gardening (flowers! tomatos!), philosophy, paintball, biking, But best of all are all things related to being with my 13 year old boy, Dillon!! oh yeah, and absolutely excel at changing light bulbs! .

Scot Lee’s Groups:

Coalition for Activity and Nutrition to Defeat Obesity (CanDo), committee, 2009
Colorado Paintball Club, founder, 2004-present
Front Range Economic Gardener Group, member, 2006-2008
Leadership Loveland, graduate, class of 2007
Longmont Parks & Recreation (athletics), team captain, 2003-2008
Loveland Business Assistance Network, member, 2007-2008
Loveland Old Fashioned Corn Roast Festival, committee, 2004-2009
Northern Colorado Business Assistance Consortium, member, 2005-2009
St. Vrain School District, volunteer and parent advisory committee, 2001-2007
Thompson School District, Business to Work Experience (BWE) Advisory Committee, 2007-2008
Winter Holiday Council, board member, 2004-2008
YMCA Children's Athletics, coach, 1998-2005

•    Loveland Chamber of Commerce
•    Berthoud Area Chamber of Commerce

Scot Lee’s Honors:

Who's Who in Business, Northern Colorado Business Report, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Outstanding Performance Award, Loveland Chamber of Commerce, 2008
Retailer of the Year, Osprey Packs, Inc., 2003
Nominee, Moving Mountains Industry Achievement Award, 2000, 2001

Scot Lee’s Contact Settings

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