Consulting scopes are built around the facility, operating model, staff experience, and current decision.
ODR Logic Advisory and Consulting
Outdoor ice expertise in your corner.
Work directly with experienced outdoor-ice advisors who understand seasonal rink conditions, weather-driven operations, ice-making practices, maintenance, planning, incidents, and recovery.
Consulting is available to private rinks, municipalities, parks departments, community organizations, and seasonal operatorsâ€â€Âwith or without an ODR Logic software license.
Trusted field perspective
Advisors who understand what outdoor rink teams are actually managing.
Outdoor seasonal ice is not managed by weather data alone. Decisions depend on rink design, refrigeration capacity, surface condition, staffing, traffic, maintenance, sun exposure, precipitation, wind, timing, and local operating expectations.
ODR Logic consultants help teams interpret those conditions, plan practical responses, improve operating techniques, and build procedures that can be used by the entire rink staff.
Recommendations focus on actions, timing, responsibilities, risks, and the reason behind the recommendation.
Organizations can hire an ODR Logic advisor without first purchasing the software platform.
Consulting specialties
Support across planning, weather, ice practices, and rink operations.
Consulting engagements can address one immediate decision or develop a broader seasonal operating plan.
Rink planning and seasonal startup
Operating-profile review, installation sequencing, opening targets, staffing workflows, measurement practices, and preseason readiness.
Ice-making and maintenance practices
Practical review of flooding, resurfacing, ice depth, temperatures, refrigeration response, surface quality, and recurring trouble areas.
Weather-event planning
Preparation for warm periods, sun, rain, snowfall, wind, rapid temperature change, and post-event recovery windows.
Ice protection strategy
Full-rink cover planning, deployment sequencing, wind considerations, labor needs, timing, removal, storage, and outcome review.
Incident diagnosis and recovery
Structured review of failures, damaged areas, closures, corrective action, contributing conditions, and the safest practical recovery path.
Staff procedures and training
Operating expectations, field-assessment practices, decision ownership, shift communication, documentation, and repeatable response procedures.
Municipal operating review
Clearer records, responsibilities, reporting, decision support, and seasonal planning for parks departments and public facilities.
End-of-season performance review
Identify what worked, what repeatedly failed, which operating assumptions need revision, and what should change before the next season.
Featured consultants
Experienced advisors available for direct consultation.
ODR Logic’s founding team combines seasonal outdoor-rink management, professional hockey ice operations, Disney on Ice experience, rink construction, weather-response planning, and professional ice consulting.
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 involving construction, ice installation, weather challenges, and daily operating decisions.
- 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
Ways to work with an advisor
Consulting support sized to the decision and the season.
Consultation Meeting
A direct working session with an advisor to review a specific rink question, weather event, operating concern, or upcoming decision.
Preseason Planning Engagement
A structured review of rink setup, staffing, weather exposure, operating procedures, opening strategy, and known seasonal risks.
First-Season Advisory
Scheduled support for a new rink, first-year manager, or operating team establishing reliable outdoor-ice practices.
Weather Event Consultation
Preparation and decision support for forecast warmth, rain, snowfall, wind, solar exposure, or a difficult recovery period.
Incident and Recovery Review
Review what happened, contributing conditions, operational response, current risk, recovery options, and changes for the next similar event.
Ongoing Advisory
Recurring access to an experienced advisor for periodic operating reviews, planning discussions, and seasonal decision support.
Consulting supported by operating evidence
Better records lead to better consulting conversations.
When the platform is in use, advisors can review documented assessments, weather, resurfacing, incidents, maintenance, tasks, closures, and outcomes rather than reconstructing the season from memory.
- Review what happened before and after an event
- Compare operating actions with actual outcomes
- Identify recurring risks and weak procedures
- Preserve lessons for the next season and staff team
Platform access can improve the consulting process but is not required to hire an ODR Logic advisor.
Request a consultation
Tell us about the rink and the decision where support is needed.
An ODR Logic advisor will review the information, determine the appropriate consultant, and follow up regarding scope, availability, and meeting options.
ODR Logic consulting provides outdoor-rink operating, planning, and decision-support services. It does not replace licensed engineering, refrigeration service, structural review, legal advice, medical advice, or local public-safety requirements. Specialized matters will be referred to the appropriate qualified professional.