The 2012/13 winter season will mark Tim”s 34th year in mountain resort management. After 17 years as President & General Manager of Lake Tahoe”s Kirkwood, he purchased Sierra Summit outside of Fresno in 2010, bringing back the original name, China Peak, which first opened in 1958. Tim has been teaching ski business courses at Sierra Nevada College for the past decade, and is a guest lecturer in both business and recreation tourism at California State University, Fresno and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He has sat on over two dozen boards relating to the ski and mountain resort industry over the past three decades, and currently is a member of the California Ski Industry Association Board of Directors.