Christopher Waltman Email & Phone Number

Galveston, TX, US

Galveston, Texas, United States

Leadership & Strategy: Spearhead new business opportunities and manage key culinary accounts, working closely with the sales team and senior leadership to align strategy and execution.Culinary Sales Support: Deliver culinary training and insights at sales meetings, trade shows, and events. Develop training videos and media content to enhance client.

Flower Mound, TX

• Work directly with manufacturers, dealers, and end users to finalize sales
• Conduct formal and informal training for staff, dealers, and end users across the U.S. on advanced equipment and cooking techniques
• Menu and Recipe Development for chains, restaurants, schools, hospitals, etc. across the U.S.
• Work with manufacturers to develop equipment that is user friendly and relevant to food trends
• Partner with Outside Sales Reps to build and maintain relationships with clients
• Develop and conduct presentations for internal and external clients

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Menu development, event planning, mobile onsite kitchen build out, and onsite coordinator
• Design and prepare "Pop Up" Dinners and Brunches, Dallas Farmer's Market Pop Up Dinners, and Private Events
• Develop and maintain relations with local farmers, chefs, breweries/distilleries, and venues

• Sales, menu building/development, event planning, onsite and offsite catering, in-home cooking
• Ordering, P&L, ensuring client satisfaction, and proposal development
• On and offsite managing, training and developing cooks

• Prep and cook three course dinners and lunch for approximately 50-100 sorority girls
• Menu development, ordering, budgeting, managing cooks and dishwashers, and coordinating special events

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Conduct corporate trainings for Kroger staff to use Alto Shaam Combi Model 7.14 ESI
• Travel to the Krogers in the Dallas/Fort Worth Region

• Retail operations along with being able to work every station
• Expediting catering orders
• Offsite set-up and supervision

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Certificate Of Achievement, Food And Beverage Management, A

-Utilizing Income Statements and Operational Data -Optimizing Food and Beverage Menu -Managing Your Food and Beverage Supply Chain.

Certificate Of Achievement, Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine To Soft Matter Science, A

-Phase Transition -Elasticity -Diffusion and Spherification -Heat Transfer -Emulsions and Foams -Viscosity and Polymers -Fermentations.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Culinary Arts/Chef Training

Civil Engineering