Provides Farm to Table Dinning Experiences for 8 – 150 people. Works with high end media/industry clientele. Provides Creative Menu Planning for a Hands-on Experience for clients start to finishCatered VOX Fermina’s mid-year Fundraising Event. Wine & Food Pairing. Paired 400 bites for 75 guests and donors.

Executive Chef & Manager - Managed a Team of 10 Chefs and 43 total staff members. Came to the team to help elevate the food quality and enhance the culinary teams skills.

Works Breakfast when needed. Works Special Events as Sous Chef for large scale catering events. Elton John Aids Foundation Oscar Viewing Party, The Steve Tyler Grammy Viewing Party. Worked the line for 1000 people prep and line chef under Executive Chef Wayne Elias.

Executive Chef / Private Chef - Prepares Daily Lunch/Dinner Menus that are Farm to Table Ingredients. Prepares Lunch for Family and Executive Team at MGA Entertainment. Prepares Dinners for 7 – 50 people daily supervising all staff Orders and Shops for kitchen. Worked on remodel and design for new Commissary to feed 400 daily.

Prepares all pasty and desserts for Restaurant and Events. Staging under Chef Brandon Kida. Working Garde Manger and shadowing Sous Chef Jonathan Turcios. Garde Manger Chef, Maintains station during lunch Prepping everything for the station. Fry Line Chef, Maintains and Prepares all dishes required for the Fry Station

• Founded Foresters Financial National LGBTQ Diversity and Community Outreach Program• Instrumental in Trevor Project and Foresters Financials Lifegaurd Workshop Partnership• Founded (2) Multi-Million Dollar Wealth Management Practices in Southern California • Grew Foresters Enterprise Global Reach to their LGBTQ Clientele

United States Navy Photojournalist/Multi-media Specialist Fleet Combat Camera Pacific San Diego (June 2002-March 2004)• Deployed to start Operation Iraqi Freedom. • Provided video and still photo documentation of worldwide Navy and Joint Service combat operations.• Leadership in air to air photography and video.• Researched and organized training to enhance operation capabilities throughout the Fleet.VF-154/USS Kitty Hawk/Fleet Imaging Command Pacific, Atsugi, Japan (March 1999-February 2002)• Maintained and monitored aerial film processor that supported the Navy’s only forward deployed F-14 squadron. Processed 215,000 feet of aerial film and worked more than 175 off-duty hours.• Provided support to Fleet Imaging Facility in Japan as the TARPS aerial film processing work center supervisor.• Processed over 8,000 feet of TARPS film and printed over 300 aerial images for Carrier Air Wing 5’s intelligence.• As the aerial film processing technician, operated and maintained two EH-38 aerial film processors and equipment.• Completed, reorganized and updated all training records increasing the efficiency of the work center’s training program.