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Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Provide customers with expertise and knowledgeable advice in purchasing wines, liquors and craft beers. Also provide assistance with menu pairings, event planning and parties, as well as help selecting gift purchases for others based on known or surmised preference.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Provide customers with expertise and knowledgeable advice in purchasing wines, liquors and craft beers. Also provide assistance with menu pairings, event planning and parties, as well as help selecting gift purchases for others based on known or surmised preferences.

Bryant, Arkansas

CrossRoads Wine and Spirits Reynolds Road Bryant, ARCrossRoads is a 6000sf shop offering a wide array of wine, spirits and craft beers. As part of the pre-opening management team, provided ownership with expertise in design, layout and features, selection of product assortment, creating a website, establishing and maintaining a social media presence, establishing vendor accounts, implementing processes and procedures, hiring staff, planning and executing ongoing marketing strategy. Ongoing responsibilities include, marketing, social media management and advertising, scheduling, staff training and management, ordering, receiving, and inventory management. Additionally, establishing relationships with guests, providing personalized and exemplary service to ensure the best possible shopping experience, as well as, set an example and benchmark for staff.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Created a full menu of Cajun/Mississippi Delta-inspired dishes designed to complement the wide and frequently changing selection of in-house brewed craft beers. The menu debuted with much acclaim and quickly grew to account for over 40% of total brewery sales. The menu and recipes maintain an average food cost under 30% and were developed for flavor and pairing with brewery offerings. Additional consideration was given to maximizing speed and efficiency in a limited space. The small kitchen, a late addition to the building renovation, was shoehorned into available space. Limited cold storage, refrigeration and production space offered unique production and logistical challenges.As part of the pre-opening management team, provided ownership with expertise in selection and purchase of equipment/ small-wares, establishing vendor accounts, implementing process and procedure best practices, and hiring staff.Utilizing cross-training, individual recognition and rewarding initiative with leadership responsibility, created and a confident, self reliant crew. Including staff in menu development of specials and seasonal changes fostering a strong sense of ownership and team pride.Designed the layout for a planned kitchen expansion required when food sales far exceeded expectations. In anticipation of future growth, the layout will bring additional production space, and equipment specifically selected to address the production constraints, flow inefficiencies, storage issues of the original blueprint.Management responsibilities include scheduling, cost and inventory management, ordering/receiving and vendor management, coordination and planning to ensure successful execution of in-house events and catering. As Lead Chef daily responsibilities include supervision and participation in daily food prep and service, working all stations as needed, and ensuring recipe adherence, plate presentation, and production time standards.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

Restaurant, Catering, FoodtruckUpscale Southern Comfort/Asian Street Fusion in a fast casual atmosphere. downtown Little Rock, AR. • Worked alongside majority owner in creation of menu items, marketing strategies, and high profile, catering and promotional events.• Personally developed beer and wine menu to compliment challenging cuisine.• Assisted with purchasing, inventory control and recipe testing. • Opened and closed restaurant, and led shifts while personally preparing food items.• Prepared food according to recipe specifications for restaurant, on and off site catering, and food truck.• Regularly engaged with patrons while providing excellent customer service.

Little Rock Metropolitan Area

Provide customers with knowledgeable advice and expertise in purchasing wines, liquors and craft beers. Also provide assistance with menu pairings, event planning and parties, as well as help selecting gift purchases for others based on known or surmised preferences.

Strategic and Tactical Consulting for growing businesses including marketing plans & sales strategy development.• B2B Lead Generation of highly qualified business opportunities suitable for closing utilizing integrated direct marketing and telemarketing campaigns.• Strategic development of marketing, sales, project management and customer service internal process structures.• Development of comprehensive and integrated messaging, value proposition, collateral, web content, and sales support tools.• Consulting on sales pipeline growth and consistent medium and long term prospect management.• Business Writing and Content Services

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

• Prepared meals for customers in efficient, timely manner. • Organized and prepared food for special events and catering.• Followed recipes and presentation in accordance with management specifications.• Cleaned and maintained station following ServSafe Industry standards.• Assisted with Inventory and ordering.

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

• Performed prep work, chopping, assembling sandwiches, salads, prepared foods. • Washing, cutting and peeling fruits and vegetables.• Cleaned and maintained station following ServSafe Industry standards.

Little Rock Metropolitan Area

A non profit organization dedicated to growing the sport of Rugby in Arkansas. As director and a coach, I was the primary point of contact with the national governing body, USA Rugby in Boulder Colorado. My responsibilities also included interacting with high school administrators and parents, introducing them to the unique sport of rugby- answering questions, dispelling myths and disseminating information. Additional duties included the creation of collateral materials, and marketing the league to local businesses, media outlets and potential sponsors. I also established relationships with other leagues and teams and coordinated matrix schedules. I also organized an annual regional rugby tournament for high school teams.

Little Rock Metropolitan Area

Direct marketing for Mainstream Technologies. Initiated, developed and executed first ever marketing plans for MTI and partner Compliance Networks to create new product national brand awareness for offering of start up company. Initiated purchase, installation, development of CRM system and DB for MTI and Compliance Networks.Ongoing: Direct all MARCOM efforts; Negotiate all marketing related contracts. Responsible for management of TV, print and Online ad creative and placement; Produce trade editorials and articles for local/national publications; Hands on creative development of ad campaigns across multiple media; Manage PR and media relations; Coordinate Trade show and event participation; Ongoing creation and development of corporate collateral; Manage website renovation/innovations for MTI; Company representative on multiple boards with chamber of commerce organizations and professional associations; Oversee corporate charitable activities and sponsorship.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Managed all lead generation activities for a profitable major player in the Enterprise Supply Chain Management Software market. Supervised internal telemarketing staff. Developed and executed multi phase Lead Generation Plan. Sourced and managed telemarketing resources in US and Europe. Contributed expertise to multiple partner lead programs.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Oversaw lead generation, lead management, and marketing activities for a start-up company in the on-line learning industry. Supported account executives; developed and trained staff for expanding sales force as company grew into a market leader.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Managed 25-state territory, providing inside sales of financial consulting products for small banks with assets up to $250M and provided lead generation and territory management sales support of financial consulting services to banks with assets form $250M to $15B.

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Lead generation, Territory Mgmt. & product support for leading hardware & enterprise software providers. Managed 20+ Marketing Reps; designed & implemented effective training and marketing programs to ensure success for UST and clients. Major clients:Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)Managed concurrent projects for multiple independent DEC divisions. Trained new B2B telemarketers on telemarketing techniques and client products, met budget expectations; Exceeded metrics and client expectations.SUN MicrosystemsGuided multiple consecutive, highly technical projects with challenging criteria. Managing highly fluctuating internal staff levels & abilities while meeting budget expectations; Exceeded metrics and client expectations.SAP AmericaPersonally completed Heidelberg Market Research Project for SAP to determine market viability of scaled down offering to midrange companies. Trained UST employees on SAP products and lead generation program; Mentored UST B2B marketing staff;

Mba, Marketing, Spanish

Activities and Societies: Vice President T-Bird Rugby Club; Texas Club;Marketing ClubThunderbird's Master of International Management.

Ba, International Relations

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Epsilon Officer; Founder Rhodes Rugby Club; Founder Culinary Craftman's Guild; Model UN; Fraternity.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Culinary Arts/Chef Training, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Student Ambassador, Presidents List each semester, Graduated with Highest Honors

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Hospitality Administration/Management, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Student Ambassador, Presidents List each semester, Graduated with Highest Honors

College Preparatory

Activities and Societies: Skeet Club, Rugby Club, Pony Soccer; Kennedy House, House Sports- Football, Soccer;