Jonathan Lord

swellchaser80@protonmail.com
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, DE
+49 15788367733

Foreign Languages English (Mother tongue) Spanish (Fluent)

German (Working level proficiency)
(General Understanding)
Education

10.15.2021 – Current Technical University of Munich, Geospatial

Sciences, GIS

09.15.2008 – 01.05.2010 M.A. Cultural Anthropology Oregon State

09.05.2000 – 08.01.2004 B.A. Sociology at Colorado State University

07.01.1996 – 09.01.1996 Outward Bound Mountaineering School

Employment

01.10.2022 – Current Ski School Zugspitze

• Ski instructor, ski sales, ski technician.

06.01.2021- 1.10.2022 WN Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

• Sales representative and ski technician in small family owned outdoor retail
shop. Responsible for customer level sales of skis (Stöckli, Åre/Extreme,
Blizzard) & ski equipment, binding mounting & setup, ski repair. Sales of
climbing equipment, shoes, & outdoor/camping gear. General office help,
answering phones, translations, emails, computer inventory.

◦ Achievement: Accomplished positive sales growth in German

Language.
05.17.2021 -10.01.2021 Intervivos/Eurofins, Garmisch, Germany

• Medically Certified by the German State to administer COVID-19 PCR,

PCO, and antigen tests.
◦ Achievement: German language skills, customer service in german
language, medical training for pandemics.

__________________________________________________________________

11.15.2017 - 05.01.2020 Bayerische Zugspitzbahn, Ski Saftey

Garmisch, Zugspitze, Germany.

• Responsible for maintaining ski slope safety. Work involved being on skis
40 hours a week with an ice drill in hand) setting up barriers, fences, signs,
etc. Responding to emergency situations, accidents & coordination with
Mountain Rescue (Bergwacht). Constructed entire freestyle snow park.
Achievement: German Language Skills, Emergency Rescue Operations,
Outdoor Physical Skills on Skis.

05.05.2014 – 10.01.2017 Cultural Resource Management (CRM), Spain.

• Contracted by Educators, Study Aboard Programs, and many top in-coming

tour agencies for general work in Cultural Resource Management (CRM),
Guiding, and Inter-Institutional Cooperation.
• Cultural work sites included Montserrat Monastery Museum, Girona
Cathedral Museum, Jewish History Museum (Girona), Wine Museum of
Villafranca Del Penedes, Catalonia Museum of Archaeology of Ullastret.
• Guiding Northern Spain: Kayaking, Hiking, Wine Tourism, Museums,
Bicycle, Surfing. Achievement: Fluent Spanish, Cultural and Logistical
Knowledge of Spain, Cultural Resource Management (CRM), Inter-
Institutional Cooperation.
__________________________________________________________________

02.04.2014 – 05.01.2014 Long Term Substitute Teacher St. Peters School,

Barcelona Spain.

• Teaching at a private high school in Barcelona: Business/Marketing &

English as a Second Language 20-25 students aged 15-18 years old. Acted
as a long-term substitute teacher.
__________________________________________________________________

05.07.2012 – 05.12.2013 Oregon State University Dept. History

• Research Assistant with work in the National Archives of Spain. Acted as

the intermediary in obtaining primary sources of information for History
Professor’s publication by Spanish Ministry of Defense in: Redes de Nación
y Espacios de poder: La comunidad irlandesa en España y la América
Española, 1600-1825. Achievement included handling, interpreting, and re-
producing 500-year-old documents.
__________________________________________________________________

05.09.2008 – 12.09.2009 Oregon State University Dept. Anthropology

• Teaching Assistant Position which included Teaching and introductory

Anthropology course in front of 60-70 students.
• Course Design of 200 level Anthropology course: Ethnomusicology,
covering music of the world and their related cultural and political
expressions.
__________________________________________________________________

02.09.2007 – 08.08.2008 Oregon State University Student Computing

• Help Desk (part-time), troubling shooting for student computing lab users
for Spanish speaking and international students.
__________________________________________________________________

Professional Affiliations & Awards

• Bolivian National Museum of Ethnography (MUSEF)

o Laureate Scholarship Awarded
• College of William & Mary’s Pilgrimage Institute Speaker
• Latin American Studies Association Researcher and Speaker
o Awarded Travel Grant
• Society of Food and Agriculture Researcher and Speaker
o Awarded Travel Grant
Hobbies and Interests

• Outdoor activities: Skiing (back country), trail running, mountain biking,

trail running, surfing.

• Music: Lifelong student of the guitar. Classical guitar studies completed in

Spain, with performances and current repertoire of romantic, modern, and
medieval musics.

References by request and context available