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Kyle Nygaard

Huntsville,TX

Summary

Passionate culinary student with a diverse skill set in crafting simple treats, intricate cakes, and French desserts. Deep-rooted love for sweet treats and goal to spread happiness through food creation while fulfilling degree program requirements. Seeking opportunity to showcase abilities and further develop culinary expertise. Excited about prospect of contributing to a team dedicated to culinary excellence.

Work History

Bakery Assistant

Culinary Institute of Lenôtre
06.2024 - 07.2024
  • I have worked three weeks at Culinary Institute of Lenôtre preparing recipes and building multiple chef club recipes.
  • Inventoried 5 Baking labs for supplies and helped with the ordering process for the college.
  • I have 2 years of experience making cakes, breads, puff pastries and quick breads.
  • My hard skills are leadership, detail orientated orders, multitask, my knife skills, following a recipe and adding too to make it your own.
  • I have placed second place for cake decorating in my school.
  • My professional career goals is to become a pastry chef and make tasty food for people to enjoy.
  • Prep and production, baking, restock, inventory, cleaning and organizing the kitchen.
  • Sets up display cases so they are presentable 15 minutes before opening for the day.
  • Continues to produce throughout the day at pars and intervals set by the Pastry Chef.
  • Maintain high standards of quality and appearance of all food prepared and served.
  • Executes daily production lists and maintains inventory that reflects the pars set by the Pastry Chef.
  • Work cleanly and maintain a tidy work station.
  • Identifies efficiencies/inefficiencies in production.
  • Adhere to policies, standards, and systems set by the company and management team.
  • Take a daily inventory of back stock, new production, served product, and waste

Education

Associate of Arts - Baking & Pastry

Culinary Institute Lenotre
Houston, TX
06.2025

U.S. Army
El Paso, TX
01.2021

High School Diploma - undefined

Deer Park, TX
05.2000

Skills

  • Created menus of various specialties
  • Worked in student run kitchens supervised by chef instructor
  • Piping, cake decorating, chocolate tempering
  • Pastillage showpieces, sugar work, dessert design, chocolate candies
  • Friendly, positive attitude
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Customer service
  • Problem-solving
  • Time management
  • Dependable and responsible
  • Multitasking
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Excellent communication
  • Attention to details
  • Calm under pressure
  • Organizational skills

Accomplishments

  • Achieved mouthwatering results through effectively helping with the Woodlands Food and Wine weekend plating desserts and main dishes in result my chef i was helping won Second place out of 25 chefs.
  • Won second place for my celebration cake out of 15 students
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Completed 20 years of military service.

Timeline

Bakery Assistant

Culinary Institute of Lenôtre
06.2024 - 07.2024

High School Diploma - undefined

Associate of Arts - Baking & Pastry

Culinary Institute Lenotre

U.S. Army