Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
References
Timeline

Brian Ott

Summary

Passionate artist and designer with a keen eye for form, aesthetics, and composition. Dedicated to showcasing my skills and bringing my studio and visions to life. Seeking to expand my business acumen and successfully run a creative enterprise. Experienced mixologist with a talent for designing innovative drinks. Thrilled to come across your listing. Proven track record of delivering exceptional customer service, adept multitasking, and organizational abilities. Over a decade of extensive computer expertise and ten years of design experience. Ideal candidate for this position. Available for an immediate interview and can start right away.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Bartender

Brewstirs Beechwold Tavern
11.2023 - Current
  • Kept bar presentable and well-stocked to meet customer needs.
  • Obtained cash bank and stocked service bar to prepare for operation.
  • Followed alcohol awareness procedures for preventing excessive guest intoxication.
  • Organized bar inventory and storage procedures to keep stock within optimal levels and meet expected customer demands.
  • Adhered to state laws regarding alcoholic beverage services and customer regulations.
  • Handled simultaneous customer, team, and business needs while avoiding unnecessary delays or errors.
  • Performed opening and closing duties, printing sales reports, setting up for incoming shift, preparing cash drawers, and taking inventory.
  • Served high customer volumes during special events, nights, and weekends.
  • Trained new bartenders on drink preparation, product promotion, garnish preparation, and sanitation protocol.
  • Upsold menu items to customers, driving up per sale revenues and maximizing profits.
  • Created attractive bar displays by strategically arranging bottles and glasses.
  • Verified drinking age requirements of customers by carefully reviewing photo identification.
  • Assisted with inventorying beverage stock and bar supplies.
  • Upheld strict regulations for safe alcohol service and food safety.
  • Developed creative bar menus and drink recipes by researching emerging industry trends.
  • Applied knowledge to create innovative cocktails, enhance flavor profiles and expertly pair food and drinks.
  • Managed bar inventory, restocked supplies and placed orders for spirits, beer, wines, and mixers.
  • Kept bar stocked with liquors, juices and garnishes for drinks.

Sales manager

Accupos point of sale software
02.2023 - 10.2023
  • Working close to business and providing a solution for a new point of sale
  • B2B sales
  • Providing excellent customer service skill
  • Understanding needs and what the customer wants out of a point of sale to drive business revenue
  • Knowledge in crm, excel, word and quotes
  • Great communication skills with optimal multitasking skills
  • Have computer skill in crm order entry basic Microsoft skills
  • Making cold calls to business

Inbound sale

Spectrum
07.2021 - 02.2023
  • Working in the inbound sales team, taking calls
  • Handling customers, offering customer services base on needs
  • Great communication skills, with optimal multitasking skills
  • Delivering exceptional customer service
  • Delivering the best experience and knowledge about the products that offered from the company
  • Have computer skill including order entry, basic Microsoft skills and going through screens

Server / bartender

Bar 23
08.2021 - 12.2022
  • Job includes wine knowledge, sales knowledge in bottles of water, wine and champagne
  • Table service
  • Includes cleaning and making sure guest where happy with overall set and service
  • Customer service and complaints
  • Resolve problems, cleaning organization of store, ensuring everyone is taking care of properly
  • Craft beer knowledge to help customers choose the beer they love
  • Paper work, end of the day sales
  • Opening and closing duties

Server / bartender

Fireproof Restaurant and lounge
07.2019 - 03.2020
  • Job includes wine knowledge, sales knowledge in bottles of water, wine and champagne
  • Table service
  • Includes cleaning and making sure guest where happy with overall set and service
  • Customer service and complaints
  • Resolve problems, cleaning organization of store, ensuring everyone is taking care of properly
  • Craft beer knowledge to help customers choose the beer they love
  • Paper work, end of the day sales
  • Opening and closing duties

Server / bartender

Local Cantina
02.2019 - 06.2019
  • Job includes tending bar, table service
  • Includes cleaning and making sure guest where happy with overall set and service
  • Customer service and complaints
  • Resolve problems, cleaning organization of store, ensuring everyone is taking care of properly
  • Bartending craft cocktails, craft beer knowledge to help customers choose the beer they love
  • Stocking, wine knowledge as well as cocktail knowledge, being both server and bartender as well as mixologist
  • Bartenders are supervisors to help servers in time of need and to help with a mistake on pos system, checking servers out and handling money properly
  • Paper work, end of the day sales
  • Opening and closing duties
  • Checking and putting away liquor order and beer order

Bartender

The Fresh palate
05.2018 - 09.2018
  • Job includes tending bar, table service
  • Designing and coming up with drinks
  • Quick on my feet for Ideas and concepts and originality for bar and bar drinks
  • Includes cleaning and making sure guest where happy with overall set and service
  • Customer service and complaints
  • Resolve problems, creating new ideas for menu and sales
  • Cleaning organization of store, ensuring everyone is taking care of properly
  • Bartending craft cocktails, craft beer knowledge to help customers choose the beer they love
  • Stocking, wine knowledge as well as cocktail knowledge
  • Bartenders are supervisors to help servers in time of need and to help with a mistake on pos system, checking servers out and handling money properly
  • Maintaining the untapped online beer menu, and changing of beer list
  • Ordering beer and kegs, keeping inventory in stock

Mixologist

Dempsey's Food and Spirits
06.2016 - 04.2017
  • Job includes tending bar, table service
  • Designing and coming up with drinks
  • Quick on my feet fo Ideas and concepts and originality for bar and bar drinks
  • Includes cleaning and making sure guest where happy with overall set and service
  • Customer service and complaints
  • Resolve problems, creating new ideas for menu and sales
  • Cleaning organization of store, ensuring everyone is taking care of properly
  • Teaching crew new rules and regulations and safety of employees
  • Bartending craft cocktails, craft beer knowledge to help customers choose the beer they love
  • Stocking, wine knowledge as well as cocktail knowledge, being both server and bartender as well as mixologist
  • Bartenders are supervisors to help servers in time of need and to help with a mistake on pos system, checking servers out and handling money properly

Education

BFA - Industrial design, Philosophy

Columbus College of Art & Design
01.2015
Design, Product design, graphic design, solid works, Adobe suites, Rhino 2.0, Painting of different mediums, Studio for professions, and Marketing, Business, excel, word.

Skills

  • Solid works
  • Micros
  • Word
  • Adobe suites
  • Excel
  • Rhino 20
  • Oil and watercolor
  • Digital painting
  • Design
  • Product design
  • Three dimensional design
  • Two dimensional design
  • Composition
  • Sculpture
  • Aesthetics
  • POS systems
  • Aloha systems
  • Money handling
  • Bank deposits
  • Ensuring safe work environment
  • Handling customer complaints
  • Resolve problems
  • Creating new ideas for menu and sales
  • Clear communication
  • Supervising crew
  • Morning huddles

References

  • Justin Ekin, Supervisor Spectrum, 4407493080
  • Dom Racanilli, Manager of Bar23, 6143320763
  • Lisa Block, Friend, Trugreen, 6146747533

Timeline

Bartender - Brewstirs Beechwold Tavern
11.2023 - Current
Sales manager - Accupos point of sale software
02.2023 - 10.2023
Server / bartender - Bar 23
08.2021 - 12.2022
Inbound sale - Spectrum
07.2021 - 02.2023
Server / bartender - Fireproof Restaurant and lounge
07.2019 - 03.2020
Server / bartender - Local Cantina
02.2019 - 06.2019
Bartender - The Fresh palate
05.2018 - 09.2018
Mixologist - Dempsey's Food and Spirits
06.2016 - 04.2017
Columbus College of Art & Design - BFA, Industrial design, Philosophy

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