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Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Responsible for overseeing the product lifecycle from receipt at each of 3 distribution centers, through direct-to-consumer fulfillment. This included identifying opportunities to streamline 3PL operations, optimizing transportation networks, reporting and analyzing the productivity of three DCs, building and maintaining databases of partner performance.

Revenue protection, customer contact platform administration, and contact support.

Portland, Oregon Area

Developed and opened small gastro-pub serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Ground-up build-out. Responsible for interior design, all food and beverage, staffing, guest experiences, and external marketing. Built in conjunction with the HI NW Portland International Hostel and Guesthouse.

Bar Margot

Lead line cook and assistant to executive sous chef. Bar Margot is a collaboration between the hotel and Rocket Farm restaurant group.

Greater Atlanta Area

Sales, customer service, and merchandising with new, independent bike shop. Bike brands represented include: BMC, Colnago, Focus, Litespeed, Pivot, Scott, and Wilier. Apparel brands included: Giro, Louis Garneau, Shimano, and Sidi.

Decatur, Georgia

Training, Expediting, Pastry, Garde Manger, Hot Apps, Sautee, Prep.

Greater Atlanta Area

F&B Director and Executive Chef at Embassy Suites Atlanta Galleria, a 261-room property adjacent to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center. The property features high-volume cooked-to-order breakfast service, a casual dining sports bar, in-room dining, and fine-dining banquet services.

Here To Serve Restaurants, Atlanta

Three positions at three high-volume casual fine dining locations of a leading Atlanta restaurant group* General Manager of Shout!, a 15000 square foot nightclub and restaurant* Beverage Manager / Assistant GM of Aja, a Pan-Asian restaurant and event space* Beverage Manager at Goldfish, a seafood and sushi restaurant

General Manager of high volume restaurant and 15,000 sqft. nightclub. Responsible for direction of food and beverage program, menu design and engineering, all server training, and electronic marketing.

Service Manager at EccoBeverage Manager at South City Kitchen Midtown

Managed day-to-day kitchen operations, including supervision of all prep and line work, cooking on the line, directing cleaning projects, expediting, and ordering food.

Cooking

Wrote market analyses, marketing position papers, and press releases for streaming media software companies.