SUMMARY Dynamic, resourceful, and skilled Executive Head Chef with extensive customer service experience with 25 years of success in fine dining, casual dining, event planning, wedding planning, and catering. Seasoned customer service specialist with background in providing solutions in diverse customer situations in restaurants, catering opportunities, event, and wedding planning. Reliable decision making skills, strong work ethic, professional demeanor and great initiative. Strong administrative skills to oversee day to day business operations. Focused manager who remains calm and poised even in high-pressure situations. Knowledgeable of industry trends to explore opportunity for new growth and expansion. High-energy manager successful in building and motivating dynamic a team. Creating an atmosphere where staff members feel comfortable voicing questions and concerns, as well as contributing new ideas that drive company growth. Experienced in high-pressure culinary environments. Skilled in preparing a large volumes of food for varied events and situations quickly and efficiently. Will use culinary skills and expertise to train staff and prepare a special variety of dishes in a professional, rewarding environment. Experienced baker with expertise in baking on a large scale, wedding cakes and other baked art and managing work loads using modern bakery equipment and trends in the wedding industry. Specializes in preparing menus that attract and retain customers. Looking for a challenging role in the culinary field. Experienced with Total Party Planning Event Planning Software. * Microsoft office including but not limited to Word, Powerpoint, and Excel * Able to use social media, owner of several pages and business accounts on multiple social media clients * Fast Typing Skills * Quickly catch on to new software * Document storage and organization to improve workflow * Experienced on audio editing and engineering software * Using web clients/portals to make food orders * With a team creating a web site and social medial pages for multiple business projects * Using video conferencing apps and web services in order to meet with clientele for advanced event planning and financial matters

Highlights:

• Chef
• Training
• Sales
• Budgetary
• Customer Service
• Food Service
• Management
• event planner
• caterer