PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

  
9/2008-present    Atlantica Grill    Madison, MS SERVER    www.atlanticagrill.com
Server in fine dining restaurant with extensive wine list. I am expanding my experience 
in this type of service while gaining extensive knowledge in wine sales, regions, etc

4/2006-7/2008  Aramark Offshore  Houston, TX
CHEF MANAGER, OPERATIONS MANAGER
Duties included preparation and execution of meals for offshore clients. Up to three meals
 a day; including several entrees, starches, vegetables, breads, etc. 
Responsible for food inventory and ordering. Directly in charge of night cook and crews
 from five to nine staff members.   
Operations manager for six months: oversaw five rigs. Duties included;
 customer satisfaction responsible for getting crews to rigs, training, operations costs, reviewing 
all grocery orders, resolving all rig and staff issues, asset inventory, menu fabrication etc. 

5/2005-2/2006 Applebee's Restaurant  Alex, LA
MANAGER
Duties included opening and closing of restaurant,  scheduling of FOH staff,responsible for daily activities
managing labor costs, customer satisfaction, all FOH duties. BOH duties included cooking, monitoring KDS 
system, managing portion controls, inventory, nightly
softcount, etc.

9/2004-4/2005 Grassroots Woodworking   Raymond, MS 
Helped a friend get a business started 

      9/2002-11/2003 The Greenhouse Restaurant , Bar & Nightclub St. Thomas, USVI  MANAGER Duties included: daily reports, customer relations, monthly inventory, FOH training, arranged daily specials, involvement in food preparation & food expediting, opening and closing procedures, employee checkouts, hiring & firing, usual management procedures, cooking, etc. Implemented the first computer tracking of daily revenues, productivity, hourly breakdown reports, merchant sales, etc. High volume resort restaurant. Restaurant awarded “Best Frozen Concoctions” on island for three years running.

      6/1992-8/1998 The Greenhouse Restaurant, Bar & Nightclub St. Maarten, West Indies  GENERAL MANAGER  Duties   included supervision and responsibility of all operations of restaurant, P & L projections, financial reports, payroll, etc. Organized Heineken Regatta parties for up to 5,000 sailors, and numerous aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates with daily revenues up to $35,000. Doubled volume of sales in six years. Medium volume resort restaurant.

   9/1998- 9/1999 Grand Casino Avoyelles Marksville, LA SERVICE-COORDINATOR/Marceline's Restaurant Duties included: FOH training, supervision of FOH & kitchen associates, wine pre- sentations, customer relations, usual mgmt. duties, etc. BEVERAGE SUPERVISOR Duties included: scheduling, daily positioning of sections, & monitoring of approx. 150 beverage associates & 12 bartenders, weekly inventory, supervision of cleaning, as well as maintaining & monitoring six bars. Within four months was promoted to ‘service manager’.

  1984-1992 Good Moves Delivery Service Los Angeles, CA OWNER/OPERATOR