Passionate and motivated Chef with four years of hospital kitchen management experience. Have developed jobs from the ground up and enjoy helping others become successful. Natural problem-solver with the ability to adapt to meet the needs of the moment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sous Chef
Corewell Health - Farmington Hills Hospital
02.2020 - Current
Developed production schedules and job flows to support lower food costs and increased timeliness of patient food service. Directly manage 11.4 FTEs.
Worked with Department Manager on implementation of tray delivery tracking system. Tracking 650 meal deliveries daily.
Created retail work stations and directly oversee daily retail cafe operation. Increased monthly transactions by nearly 3K per month by end of 2023.
Purchased new equipment to help increase efficiency and employee moral
Responsible for daily purchasing needs related to food procurement
Directly oversee receiving of food products for department
Line/Prep Co
Beaumont Health
06.2017 - 02.2020
Worked multiple cook positions in kitchen
Was responsible for developing/making catering menus for Doctors Events, Award Ceremonies, and separate Department functions.
Line Cook
Urban Ramen
09.2018 - 02.2020
Worked line of popular Ramen Bar with open kitchen and unique menu. Delivering hundreds of bowls nightly.
Helped develop line setup and work flows to reduce ticket times and help increase restaurant seat turnover.
Created safety logs and food safe procedures to ensure kitchen delivered high quality Ramen
Sales Representative
Pepsi
08.2007 - 04.2017
Large Format Sales- Ran large format route, servicing 3 large box grocery stores
Was responsible for ordering and merchandising products to support ads as well as selling incremental displays
Small Format Sales- Managed over 140 small box retailers, including gas stations, party stores, corporate drug and dollar stores
Was responsible for signing independent accounts to contracts and developing customers to deliver year over year sales growth
Grew overall volume over 20,000 cases in last two years.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Culinary Arts
The Art Institute of Michigan-Novi
Novi, MI
12.2018
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
High School Diploma -
Huron High School
New Boston, MI
06.2000
Skills
Butchery Skills
Resource Management
Batch Cooking
Equipment usage
Food inventories
Vendor Relationship Management
Menu Item Pricing
Safe Food Handling
Certification
Serv-safe certified
Timeline
Sous Chef
Corewell Health - Farmington Hills Hospital
02.2020 - Current
Line Cook
Urban Ramen
09.2018 - 02.2020
Line/Prep Co
Beaumont Health
06.2017 - 02.2020
Sales Representative
Pepsi
08.2007 - 04.2017
Associate of Applied Science - Culinary Arts
The Art Institute of Michigan-Novi
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration
Wayne State University
High School Diploma -
Huron High School
Serv-safe certified
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