Laurel Stewart Email & Phone Number

499 Douglass St, San Francisco

• Creating new and exciting small businesses catering to SF neighborhoods.
• Transformed an abandoned liquor store into a dynamic neighborhood café, market, and event space.
• Develop, maintain, and execute a food and menu plan for multiple locations. Monitor food and labor costs.
• Execute all accounting aspects for the businesses (QuickBooks Online).
• Manage scheduling, payroll, ordering, vendor relationships, employees.

• Provide various services to chefs, restaurants, and emerging food markets.
• Provide catering for events of all types and sizes, from intimate high-end dinners for 8-12, to large-scale conference-style lunches.
• Cataloged notable San Francisco bars, restaurants, and sights for use in a new and innovative search tool.
• Provide consulting to emerging food business.

• Part of a team producing memorable events and amazing food for 20-3000 in diverse venues around the Bay Area.
• Work in all aspects of event production from set up to break down, working lines, creating kitchens in unique locations, producing amazing food.
• Team player also requested to do special features – live mozzarella making demo at a vineyard wedding in Napa, cotton candy at a company Christmas party at the Armory Community Center.

• Chosen to provide account management, scientific and software support on Genedata's Screener platform.
• Designed, scoped, managed and implemented project plans for customized professional service work deployed to large, global pharmaceutical companies, including installation, training and support.
• Worked as part of a team that designed, created, and implemented new product features based on customer feature requests and market research.
• Implemented large scale data integration, software installation, upgrades, training and support.
• Generated critical account renewals and helped established new business through preparation and delivery of technical presentations to potential customers.
• Improved client understanding, utilization, and satisfaction of complex software applications by designing and delivering productive training workshops.

• Selected by the premier Enterprise Image Intelligence™ company to provide customized solutions to pharmaceutical and biotech customers using innovative image analysis software.
• Designed, scoped, and presented project plans to customers for using object-oriented and context-sensitive analysis to automatically extract intelligence from images.
• Developed and implemented custom rule sets based on proprietary eCognition software for Life Science customers using cell-based assays, histopathology, high-content screening and digital pathology.
• Increased software sales by generating and delivering effective case study presentations that highlight software benefits to major commercial accounts.
• Provided leadership to junior members of the consulting team.

• After the acquisition of Silicon Genetics by Agilent, continued to provide account management, technical support and systems setup on a line of products for this innovative scientific measurement company.
• Created plan for providing new enterprise products to global pharmaceutical companies that identified costs, time and resource management, risk management and accountability throughout each stage of implementation.
• Facilitated acquisition of major pharmaceutical contract for previously undefined professional services worth nearly $1 million by crafting effective service documentation.

• Chosen to provide account management, technical support and systems setup on a line of products for this small scientific start up.
• Generated critical account renewals and established new enterprise market business through excellent working relations developed as main pre-sales support channel, installation expert, account manager and ongoing.
• Improved product quality and client satisfaction by testing applications for bugs and fulfillment of client needs in conjunction with marketing and development teams.

• Selected by a leading provider of genomic technologies to develop and execute tests for microarray data integrity.
• Processed microarray expression data and developed software for microarray expression analysis, storage, retrieval and collaboration.
• Produced statistical reports and generated data tables via Unix and SQL scripting.
• Designed and deployed an online microarray gene expression data service.
• Identified and resolved several data integrity issues that improved data quality before product delivery to customers.
• Assured quality product development by establishing standard operating procedures for scripts crafted to analyze data.

• Recruited to manage technical laboratory procedures by a biotech company relating to its main product of customized oligonucleotides and genes for research.
• Streamlined production of custom oligonucleotides and genes and maintained high quality standards during high-volume orders.
• Resolved technical difficulties by troubleshooting machinery, computer systems and data transfer as well as investigating and compensating for loss of sample materials.
• Assured product satisfaction by analyzing and approving quality control metrics before shipment to customers.

Bs, Bachelor Of Science In Biology, Minor In Studio Arts

Oracle Administration

ORACLE EDUCATION CENTER – San Francisco, California 2003 Oracle9i DBA Fundamentals I Course

Business

UC BERKELEY EXTENSION – San Francisco, California 2006 Project Management Professional Training Course

Certificate, Jams, Marmalades And Chutneys

Was a member of the inaugural 3 month intensive class on creating a small local food business: www.foodcraftinstitute.org/