Executed offsite catering events including planning and coordination, food preparation, service, rentals and presentation. Developed custom menus for a variety of clients including film sets, corporate clients and individual dinner parties.Maintained culinary budget, bookkeeping, invoicing and client services.Hired and managed all freelance staff.

Expediter, managed shifts including responsibility for maintaining quality product, keeping track of mise en place including ordering and daily menu changes, managing sauté cook.Responsible for family meal menu planning, ordering, and assigning of prep tasks for 80 person crew.Maintained a clean and organized kitchen to run as efficiently as possible and streamlined our workflow to better manage time.Executed dishes from all stations.

In charge of the kitchen at Bushwick neighborhood bar, serving only brunch on weekends: 70+ covers per day in tiny electric kitchen with just one cook. Responsible for menu development (changes weekly), all food preparation, and inventory management/ordering. Developed a loyal following with a significant group of regular customers and doubled average daily sales.

Decorated high end wedding cakes, made custom molds for sugar modelling

Sales staff and asst. buyer for specialty food store in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.

Created ergonomic line of household goods for the elderly to be sold in SE Asian pharmacies. Products ranged from tools to help button shirts and put on socks to adult sippy cups and a better back scratcher.

Taught summer program for youth empowerment and social entrepreneurship for kids and teens. Coursework included building communities, starting businesses to make local change, basic budgeting and planning, business concept generation. Kids followed program and pitched their business ideas to Ashoka leadership team with the possibility of receiving $5k seed funding to start their small business.

Solidworks Modeller, Design ideation

Aviation safety research, human factors