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Orange County, California, United States

Orange County, California, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Manage team responsible for retaining and nurturing restaurant partnerships across US. Grow restaurant revenue and product engagement among partners.

Austin, Texas

Launched Uber Eats in the Central/South US.Created and scaled restaurant onboarding, restaurant-facing communications, live operations monitoring and early lifecycle support.Increased restaurant reliability, gross bookings, and selection. Coached team to actively nurture relationships with high-value restaurant partners to grow their delivery business and offer a long term vision of collaboration.

Austin, Texas Area

• Opened the first two brick and mortar locations for the popular food truck brand: South Lamar location in January 2015 and Burnet Road location in May 2015. Worked on a shoe string development budget and successfully opened both stores to rave reviews.• Overall project manager for both openings. Consulted on restaurant design, supervised construction, hired and trained all staff, created FOH and BOH operations manuals, established formal accounting systems and HR policies. Balanced these roles while being responsible for the day-to-day management of both stores. • Analyzed weekly/monthly sales and purchasing data and made key decisions on vendor procurement, employee pay structure, retail pricing adjustments, and marketing expenses. • Organized and hosted media preview events. Coordinated ongoing promotional campaigns and additional press opportunities.

Venice Beach, California

• Opened the bakery/café/wine bar concept in Venice Beach. Hired and trained all staff, developed all SOPs for restaurant FOH operations. Following great press after opening, the restaurant was doing up to 1000 covers/day.• Responsible for weekly financial reports and monthly P&L, making purchasing, R+M and labor adjustments when necessary. • Wrote employee handbook and FOH training manual. Led comprehensive 10 day staff training program prior to store opening that was a mix of classroom instruction, interactive activities and mock service. • Created weekly schedules for FOH staff of 50 people, managed payroll reporting and HR administrative needs for entire store. • Managed all catering leads, event planning and production which included staffing, ordering and on-site management.

Los Angeles, California

• Project Manager for the launch of the Umami Burger Food Truck. Arranged for truck lease, commissary rental, permits and all other development needs. Hired and trained all staff, created food truck and catering operations manuals, designed catering menus and pricing structure. • In charge of sales, coordination and on-site management of catered events. Responsible for accounts receivable/payable, payroll and P&L. Surpassed sales projections for every month in operation.• Created the banquet/buyout menus and standard operating procedures for in-venue events. Responsible for the sales of all banquets and buyouts for 22 Umami Burger locations nationwide as well as the onsite management of LA and Orange County in-venue events. Executed several high volume and high profile events including weddings, film premieres, the LAX Tom Bradley Opening Gala and Golden Globes after party.• Designed and executed marketing programs at slower performing locations that focused on community events, cross promotional partnerships and social media to increase revenue and brand awareness in those regions.

Los Angeles, California

• Managed all sales and events for the Border Grill Truck, from initial outreach to closing the deal. Organized all event logistics, supervised staff, managed all accounts receivable/payable.• Exceeded sales goals every month and doubled sales goals most months. Significantly grew a database of clients through various outreach efforts including a high volume of sales calls, email marketing campaigns, and nurturing all leads. Successfully able to create unique and memorable experiences for clients that has resulted in excellent feedback and repeat business. Personally received rave reviews on Yelp, WeddingWire.com and other event planning sites and blogs.• Developed PR and marketing campaigns to promote the restaurants, food truck/catering and celebrity chef/owners. Continuously pitched local and national print media, TV and corporate partnership opportunities.

West Hollywood, California

Managed cross-promotional relationships between major film studios/TV networks/record labels and consumer brands.Planned networking events from breakfast meetings and cocktail parties to week-long conferences.

Hollywood, California

Created sales presentations for potential advertisers.