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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Ministry of Presence—showing up and being there when people need someone to show they care.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Catering, personal chef, event planning, and menu costing—professional service with quality results.

1. Work fast. 2. Work clean. 3. No plate leaves my station unless I am willing serve it to my own family. 4. Yes, Chef!Do all this, all the time, with spectacular plating of food prepared utilizing traditional French techniques with a combination of artisanal and contemporary methods of cooking using locally sourced food when available.

Moab, Ut

Experience in luxury dining restaurant under the direction of Chef Joseph, serving contemporary artisanal French cuisine, locally sourced, with a seasonal approach. Sauces and recipe creation. Assisted in banquet and special event organization. Fish and meat fabrication. Cold line, mainly for salads and desserts. Hot line back-up. Maintain clean work environment. Hired on to assist GM in desperate need of kitchen staff, with the mandate that I create great tasting food with fast ticket times that were plated beautifully. My short-term contract has expired after having successfully accomplished these tasks and I maintain rehire status. My management staff housing was also left in great condition with a fully refunded incidental-deposit.

Crazy Mountain Ranch, Clyde Park, Mt

I worked the Winter season on the ranch gaining experience in gourmet, banquet-style preparation. Banquet positions rotated daily, ranging from lead cook for dinner roll-out to garde manger in this unique hybrid method of banquet style cooking with a la cart “fire” call-out style to maintain freshness without sternos during service. Learned the “ins and outs” of executing daily HAACP log books, entering time as control as well as temperature as control. Organized, labeled, and cleaned walk-in daily to ensure correct labeling, dating, and cleanliness of entire walk-in each and every night. Created and executed menu for staff (family) meal. Successfully completed the Winter season and returned home to Arizona.

The Buttes Marriott, 2000 Westcourt Way, Tempe, Az

Experience in highly rated, casual fine dining restaurant under the direction of Executive Chef Gregory J. Wiener, serving contemporary Southwest cuisine, locally sourced, with a seasonal approach. I enjoyed the challenge of working in this high volume, exhibition kitchen producing spectacularly plated dishes with a constantly changing menu. Each cook in this kitchen is skilled with artisan methods, combining classical French techniques with the tenants of contemporary cuisine, accentuating the flavor and integrity of each ingredient. I worked the hot line and also as Garde Manger prepping, producing, and presenting high-quality, á la carte plates for 80-150 covers per night on average. Among the culinary skills I honed in this kitchen were seasoning, grilling, poaching, simmering, searing, roasting, frying, drying, smoking, marinating, pureeing, carving, tossing, plating, knife skills, and others. Ultimately, the most important skills I have taken with me are: 1. Work fast. 2. Work clean. 3. No plate leaves my station unless I am willing serve it to my own family. 4. Yes, Chef!

Phoenix, Az

This job was on-call, while I attended the Arizona Culinary Institute. Skills required were reliability, always on-time, and open communication. Prepared meals for large catering events.

Flagstaff, Az

While attending NAU for marketing degree, mostly for large apparel store: designed, implemented, and maintained "Customer First" sales practices. Open communication skills required for employee training and customer retention. Designed and implemented radio, email, and print advertisements for various sales, promotions, or specials. Ability to work long hours were must, and staff sales floor according to sales demand.

Flagstaff, Az

Motivate and delegate employees in completion of time-sensitive projects. Constantly mentoring staff to reach new heights. Identify, acknowledge, and solve disputes. Maintained vendor relations. Receive and manifest incoming products using FIFO techniques. Maintain inventory counts to reduce shrink. Continuously strove to meet tight deadlines and consistently outperforming daily sales goals. Hire, train, and schedule employees to meet sales demand.

Flagstaff, Az

Built, maintained, and repaired computer systems to improve speed, reliability, and efficiency of operation. Demonstrated high quality, results-driven, prompt, and professional service and support to instill clients with confidence in technical advice and directions. Reduced stress levels of clients by adopting a cooperative attitude and positive approach to every task and assignment. Received numerous customer commendations.

Flagstaff, Az

Motivate and delegate employees in completion of time-sensitive projects. Managed service counter and solve customer disputes. Called vendors to place and/or expedite orders. Receive and manifest incoming products. Continuously strove to meet tight deadlines and consistently outperforming daily sales goals. Maintained and updated POS System daily; enabling smooth business functions and minimal errors.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Divinity/Ministry, 3.7 Gpa

Master's in Ministry, with emphasis Counseling & Family

Culinary Arts, Management, And Baking, Culinary Arts/Chef Training

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Marketing

Associate'S Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services