Reduce uncertainty, clarify priorities, and provide a better operating record for each shift and weather event.
About ODR Logic
Built for outdoor rink operations.
ODR Logic brings together operating intelligence, experienced advisors, ice protection, and practical resources to help seasonal rink teams make better decisions and preserve more usable skating days.
Why ODR Logic exists
Outdoor rink teams are expected to make difficult decisions with fragmented information.
Seasonal outdoor ice is affected by changing temperature, solar exposure, wind, humidity, precipitation, refrigeration performance, rink construction, staffing, traffic, maintenance, and local operating expectations.
Yet many rink teams still manage those variables through a collection of weather websites, handwritten notes, spreadsheets, text messages, photographs, and the experience of one or two individuals.
ODR Logic was created to turn that fragmented process into a clearer operating system—one that helps teams understand the current situation, document the decision, coordinate the response, and learn from the result.
Our mission
Help outdoor rink teams make better decisions, protect the ice, and operate more confidently through changing weather.
Improve coordination, preserve staff knowledge, and create clearer visibility into risks, actions, and outcomes.
Support safer, more consistent operations and stronger reporting for leadership, municipalities, and community stakeholders.
How we work
Practical principles for a weather-driven operating environment.
Field-first design
ODR Logic starts with the decisions rink teams make in real weather, under real staffing, timing, equipment, and public-operating constraints.
Better decisions, not more data
Weather and operating information only create value when they help the team understand risk, select an action, and explain the reasoning.
Learn from every season
Assessments, incidents, actions, and outcomes should become institutional knowledge rather than disappear when the season ends or staff changes.
Operator trust
Guidance should identify assumptions, risks, confidence, and unresolved questions instead of presenting uncertain recommendations as guarantees.
One company. Four connected capabilities.
Technology, expertise, protection, and operating knowledge.
Rinks can engage ODR Logic through the platform, consulting, ice protection, resources, or a combination based on the operation and current need.
ODR Logic Platform
Outdoor ice operating intelligence connecting weather, assessments, tasks, maintenance, incidents, guidance, and historical outcomes.
Explore the PlatformAdvisory and Consulting
Direct access to experienced outdoor-ice advisors for planning, seasonal startup, operating techniques, weather events, incidents, and recovery.
Meet the AdvisorsIce Protection
Reflective full-rink protection systems supported by sizing, deployment planning, weather strategy, and optional consulting.
Explore Ice ProtectionResources and Playbooks
Practical guides, checklists, operating references, case studies, and educational materials created specifically for outdoor rink teams.
Browse ResourcesOur team
Operators, advisors, and builders focused on outdoor seasonal ice.
ODR Logic is assembling a team with direct experience in outdoor-rink operations, weather-event planning, ice practices, consulting, product development, and customer implementation.
Founder, ODR Logic
Michael Hillebrand
Michael Hillebrand is the founder of ODR Logic and an experienced outdoor ice operations professional. He has spent nine years managing seasonal outdoor ice operations, with additional experience building hockey and public-skating rinks. For the past four years, Michael has led Disney on Ice ice operations in the Kansas City market, supporting ice creation, team planning, production, and overall ice operations. He also spent two years on a professional hockey ice crew installing and managing game-day ice. Over the past four years, he has consulted on outdoor-rink projects, helping operators navigate rink construction, ice installation, weather challenges, and daily operating decisions. He founded ODR Logic to combine practical rink experience, weather intelligence, and operational data into better decision-making tools for outdoor ice rink managers.
- 9 years of seasonal outdoor ice operations
- 4 years leading Disney on Ice ice operations in Kansas City
- 2 years on a professional hockey ice crew
- 4 years consulting on outdoor-rink projects
Co-Founder, ODR Logic and Lead Outdoor Ice Operations Consultant
Christian Hertlein
Christian Hertlein is an experienced ice operations professional with five years of outdoor-rink management experience. His background includes six years working on professional hockey ice crews and four years with Disney on Ice, where he supported ice operations, safety, and ice management. Christian has also spent two years providing professional consulting for ice-related projects. His experience across outdoor rinks, professional hockey, live entertainment, and consulting gives him a practical understanding of ice creation, maintenance, operating conditions, and the challenges rink teams face throughout a season.
- 5 years of outdoor-rink management
- 6 years on professional hockey ice crews
- 4 years with Disney on Ice
- 2 years of professional ice consulting
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Experience supported by evidence
Good advice improves when the operating record is clear.
ODR Logic connects field experience with documented conditions, actions, incidents, maintenance, weather, and results. That allows the team to evaluate what actually happened rather than rely only on memory.
- Review similar conditions from previous seasons
- Compare recommendations with observed outcomes
- Preserve lessons across staff and leadership changes
- Identify recurring operating risks and opportunities
Work with ODR Logic