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The world of live event production tends to be a very motley kind of job.  My team shown here at University of Stanford Stadium surely fit this description.  Stanford was one of 7 facilities in the US chosen as competition sites, with Stanford being the only non-professional stadium.  The job ahead of me, as I was transplanted from the Los Angeles Headquarter to take on the challenge of a 100+ year old stadium was not a simple task to say the least.

To assist me in my monumental task, I enlisted 4 of my top crew members from Disneyland as well as my 3 top assistant manager from past events to tackle an aging stadium with little or no professional facilities required for a world class event.

The build out to get the stadium complex ready for spectators, television, international press, and world dignitaries was a 30 day fast tracked exercise.  A 20,000 square foot staging warehouse was rented and filled wall to wall to collect all of the required items.  A small city was built from the ground up to host all of the operations of the Games.  Tent structures, work trailers, storage containers, computers, copies, printers, banners, signs, tables, chairs, golf carts, and 100's of other items had to be planned, procured, warehoused, delivered, installed and fit out for games operations.

When it is all said and done, you know that what was accomplished isn't an ordinary exercise,  and the people who have accomplished the challenge have also left a mark in world history.