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Leadership
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Alexandra Senatore RDN

Edgewater,NJ

Summary

Skilled Registered Dietitian and culinary expert with experience in long term care, acute, care, outpatient counseling and community-based settings. Experience providing dynamic nutrition counseling with a culinary perspective to simplify client nutrition planning.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Counseling Services

Reimagined Nutrition, LLC
, NJ
12.2021 - Current
  • Personalized nutrition coaching and design of eating plans to suit client-specific needs, specializing in diabetes management
  • Designing dynamic culinary nutrition focused corporate demonstrations
  • Marketing development, client management & customer service, oversight of budgeting and finances.
  • Management of coaching staffing

Retail Registered Dietitian

Inserra Supermarkets
Hoboken, NJ
07.2021 - Current
  • Providing one on one medical nutrition therapy consultations with customers
  • Responsible for creating educational nutrition programming and social media that meets the health needs of Hoboken shoppers and associates
  • Creating & leading public community programming
  • Merchandising wellness area with accessible, better-for-you products
  • Developing vendor relationships and collaborating with store departments to bring healthier products onto store shelves

Registered Dietitian

NutrasourceRD
Berkeley Heights, NJ
12.2019 - 04.2021
  • Assessment of dietary needs of all residents at rehabilitation center/skilled nursing homes
  • Proficient in PCC, MDS, Optima, and MealTracker
  • Attendance of IDCP meetings and primary typist for care planning
  • Monitored facility weights with establishment of dietary interventions to support nutritional status, which are all compiled into RD monthly reports
  • Collaborated with speech therapy, foodservice, and activities departments to optimize resident nutrition care and satisfaction
  • Responsible for calculations of all residents receiving tube feedings, as well as frequent monitoring of their nutritional status

VIP Executive Sous Chef

PNC Bank Arts Center
Holmdel, NJ
06.2017 - 08.2018
  • Personal chef to headlining musicians with special dietary needs and allergies; responsible for serving up to 200 tour guests daily for three meal services
  • Foodservice operations and inventory management
  • Menu planning, specialty ingredient acquisition, and catering management

University and Student Affairs Chair ofRutgers SEBS Governing Council
05.2017 - 05.2018

Senior Educational Content Coordinator

Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
08.2016 - 05.2018
  • Peer educator to college-aged students on nutrition-related topics for H.O.P.E
  • Organization
  • Collaborated to create new interactive workshops
  • Lead demonstrator in cooking and food safety workshops

Nutrition Clerk

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
New Brunswick, NJ
05.2015 - 03.2016
  • Consulted patients through phone communication by providing informative suggestions about meal choices in relation to their diet; cardiovascular, diabetic, dysphagia, thickened-liquid, renal, clear liquids, protein or fluid limitations and assuring compliancy with the diet specified by the dietitian in both English and Spanish

Culinary Intern

Boulud Sud - The Dinex Group
New York, NY
04.2012 - 08.2012
  • Managed Garde Manger station
  • Prepared dishes on the line for lunch and pre-theater service for 300 guests on a 5 month externship via The Culinary Institute of America

Line Cook

Chart House
Weehawken, NJ
11.2010 - 01.2012
  • Served from 100-400 guests nightly and up to 2,400 guests on holidays in both a la carte and catering settings
  • Leadership and Extracurriculars

Education

Dietetic Internship -

Inspira Health Network
Vineland, NJ

Bachelor of Science Nutritional Sciences - Dietetics, Psychology

Rutgers University
2018

Associate of Occupational Studies - Culinary Arts

The Culinary Institute of America
2013

Skills

  • Nutrition care coordination
  • Leadership
  • Foodservice management
  • Friendly, positive attitude
  • Time management
  • Training initiatives
  • Evidence-based nutrition education
  • Interpersonal and written communication
  • Motivational interviewing

Leadership

  • President of Rutgers University Nutrition Club, May 2016-May 2018
  • District Ambassador of New Jersey Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, November 2018
  • Nutrition Major Representative of Rutgers SEBS Governing Council, May 2016-May 2018
  • University and Student Affairs Chair of Rutgers SEBS Governing Council, May 2017-May 2018
    Instructor at SNAP-Ed, Sep 2016-Apr 2017
  • Researcher for Independent Study in Childhood Nutrition, Feb 2016-May 2016
  • Member of Food & Culinary Professionals Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics

Affiliations

  • Member of Food & Culinary Professionals Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
  • Registered Dietitian, ID: 86095679
  • ServSafe Food Manager Certification, Expires May 2023

Timeline

Director of Counseling Services

Reimagined Nutrition, LLC
12.2021 - Current

Retail Registered Dietitian

Inserra Supermarkets
07.2021 - Current

Registered Dietitian

NutrasourceRD
12.2019 - 04.2021

VIP Executive Sous Chef

PNC Bank Arts Center
06.2017 - 08.2018

University and Student Affairs Chair ofRutgers SEBS Governing Council
05.2017 - 05.2018

Senior Educational Content Coordinator

Rutgers University
08.2016 - 05.2018

Nutrition Clerk

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
05.2015 - 03.2016

Culinary Intern

Boulud Sud - The Dinex Group
04.2012 - 08.2012

Line Cook

Chart House
11.2010 - 01.2012

Dietetic Internship -

Inspira Health Network

Bachelor of Science Nutritional Sciences - Dietetics, Psychology

Rutgers University

Associate of Occupational Studies - Culinary Arts

The Culinary Institute of America
Alexandra Senatore RDN