Laurel Grimm Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, WA

Kent, Washington

As the Program Coordinator I run an 18-week Culinary Apprenticeship program for refugee and immigrant cooks. I perform various roles including culinary instructor, classroom instructor, kitchen manager, catering manager, and volunteer coordinator. Specific tasks include recipe writing, food safety instruction, catering customer service and database.

University Of Washington

Duties included preparing and serving weekly large-group dinners, coordinating weekly prayer meetings, renovating communal meeting spaces, and assisting our bookkeeper with organizational work. I supported my position through fundraising and communicating with donors.

Seattle, Washington

Line and Production cook at busy cafe. I was primarily responsible for pastry production, placing orders, testing new pastry recipes, and interacting with customers.

Greater Chicago Area

Pastry chef in high-end Chicago catering company. Worked in all aspects of catering service including on- and off-site production, front of the house service, and administrative assistance.

Napa, CA

Food prep and line cook for an Indian-Californian food truck. Duties included food prep in the commercial kitchen, customer service and POS, line cooking and expediting, and cleaning/detailing the truck after events.

Opened and closed bakery storefront, worked with customers to place dessert catering orders both in person and over the phone. Assisted with a variety of culinary and organizational tasks in the kitchen and main office. Usually worked with no supervision in the storefront.Worked on the breakfast food truck on weekends, occasionally ran the truck alone.Set.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Rang up purchases and helped customers over the phone. Helped process inventory and set up merchandise displays when needed.

Graded berries and green beans to prepare them to be individually quick frozen. Ran tests in the laboratory to assess sugar and acid makeup of the berries.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Helped set up for events, served guests, took down events and organized the supply room. Catered the smaller functions on my own.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Loaded/unloaded the catering vans, set up events, served guests, took down events, washed dishes, and organized the store room.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Planned, prepped and cooked food for 50 children and adults for five consecutive nights. Each meal had vegetarian and gluten-free options.Vacation Bible School ran for one, 5-day week each July.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Baked all the bread to be used throughout the day, prepped meats and vegetables. Learned how to make the traditional dim sum dishes.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Environmental And Technical Studies

Activities and Societies: Council for Religious Understanding, Leadership panel for the campus Christian community, Competitive Ballroom.

Accelerated Culinary Arts Certificate Program

Certificate, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Volleyball, Lacrosse, Community fundraising drivesGraduated at the top of my class of 264 students.