Resume'

Kitchen professional with over 20 years of experience in a variety of cuisines and concepts specializing in fresh, scratch made food. I am a detailed oriented team player with excellent problem solving skills.  I can do anything from developing menus and food programs including inventory and portion control to setting up purveyors and doing scheduling and payroll. 

Authorized to work in the US for any employer 

Work Experience 

Chef 

College Fresh - Raleigh, NC 

2022 to 2023 

Chef for a sorority house. Duties included writing and executing fresh, from scratch menus for 150 students that changed twice daily, six days a week. Other duties included meeting and exceeding budget expectations, developing a cleaning and maintenance program and schedule, purchasing and receiving, preparing meals for student's with dietary restrictions as well as all the other duties of a kitchen manager. 

Catering Lead 

City BBQ - Triangle, NC 

2021 to 2022 

Catering lead for the local branches of a national bbq chain. Duties included overseeing and coordinating pack outs and set ups from multiple stores to various events, leading teams to ensure successful events, and maintaining relationships with regular customers as well as fostering new business through excellent hospitality and customer service. 

Catering Manager 

Manhattan Cafe 

2018 to 2020 

Catering manager for a busy local restaurant. Day to day responsibilities included overseeing and executing multiple daily orders throughout the Triangle, communicating with our clients to meet their specific needs, employee logistics, as well as all of the duties performed by a kitchen manager. (Ordering, receiving, schedules, upkeep, etc..) 

Chef 

Sodexo 

2016 to 2018 

Chef in a corporate cafeteria for a global tech company. Duties include preparing the day's menu offerings, multitasking several stations on the line, placing orders, and being a team leader by setting the pace and leading by example.

Kitchen Manager 

Fitzgerald's Irish Pub 

2014 to 2016 

Kitchen Manager for a small chain of Irish themed Pubs. In addition to running all aspects of a scratch made kitchen I also oversaw catering, developed and executed special menus, and trained managers at other locations. 

Chef 

La Residence - Chapel Hill, NC 

2013 to 2014 

With a focus on fresh, local, seasonal products we would change the menu as availability changed With access to a 1.5 acre off site garden as well as a on- site herb garden and tomato patch we were able to do true farm to fork cuisine. We also doubled as the area's destination spot for weddings and functions and could do up to 6 course plated dinners for large parties. 

Sous Chef 

Chucks/Beasley's /Fox 

2011 to 2013 

Sous Chef for James Beard Award winning chef Ashley Christensen's multi concept restaurant and liquor bar. Duties included overseeing a large kitchen that served three different restaurants at the same time following Chef AC's strict guidelines, developing systems to ensure efficiency and cut down on waste, and finding solutions to day to day problems as they arose. 

Lead Prep 

The Pit 

2009 to 2011 

Lead Prep for a highly successful BBQ restaurant. Duties included leading a team of cooks through the daily prep work for a high volume restaurant, ensuring consistency, and maintaining daily pars 

Education 

Associate 

Skills 

• ServSafe certified/ 20 years of experience in a variety of cuisines/  

Experienced butcher and meat grinder/ Stress free problem solver with a team mentality. • Excel, Microsoft Office, Data Entry, 

• Banquet Experience 

• Catering 

• Cooking 

• Culinary Experience 

• Event Planning 

• Kitchen Management Experience 

• Profit & Loss

• Restaurant Experience 

• Food Safety 

• Pricing 

• Events Management 

• Restaurant Management 

• Inventory Control 

• Labor Cost Analysis 

• Supervising Experience 

• Forecasting 

• Recruiting 

• Budgeting 

• Merchandising 

• Food Preparation 

• Menu Planning 

• Purchasing 

• Quality Assurance 

• Business Development 

• Meal Preparation 

• Kitchen Experience