Sara Jane Farmer
108 Main Street Apt 2 Jamestown,CO
Summary
Passionate culinary professional recognized for high productivity and efficient task execution. Demonstrates strong attention to detail and eagerness to master fine-dining techniques. Excels in fast-paced environments, leveraging problem-solving skills and exceptional multi-tasking to enhance dining experiences.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Prep Line Cook
Gold Hill Inn
Gold Hill, CO
05.2024 - Current
- Work at the sauté station, expedite, produce fresh bread, desserts, and prep the daily menu from scratch.
- Follow family recipes accurately to ensure generational authenticity.
- Help whenever necessary, covering shifts, including working the grill when the chef/owner was hospitalized, and even performing when the band canceled.
Night Kitchen Manager/Cook
Cal-Wood Education Center
Jamestown, CO
05.2022 - 12.2023
- Supervised a small team, providing guidance on recipes, techniques, sanitation, and safety procedures.
- Planned, prepared, and served daily menus based on rotating groups' specific needs, dietary restrictions, budget constraints, and available ingredients.
- Utilized vegetables from our educational greenhouse, teaching children about nutrition and sustainability.
Bluff Street Bar & Billiards
Boulder, Colorado
12.2017 - 05.2020
- Hired as a line cook, promoted to executive chef within six months
- Quickly adapted to menu writing, ordering, inventory, hiring, scheduling, and training employees in proper cookery, customer service, safety, and sanitation practices.
- Analyzed customer feedback data to improve existing recipes, and created an elevated sports bar menu, attracting new customers and increasing kitchen revenue by more than 150% from my initial employment date.
- Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 the bar's steadily increasing popularity, largely based upon the improvements in the kitchen, came to an abrupt halt and in order to give the bar a better chance of survival I stepped down to allow lesser salaried cooks to conduct curbside orders.
Pantry Line Cook
Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House
Louisville, Colorado
01.2017 - 12.2017
- Exhibited composure at busy pantry station visible to dining area in open kitchen featuring extensive cold dish selections.
- Harvested, prepped, and helped create seasonal dishes with fresh vegetables from the patio garden.
- Utilized a gas pizza oven as primary heat source for prepping.
Pantry Line Cook
Colterra
Niwot, Colorado
01.2015 - 12.2016
- Maintained a clean, stocked, and organized pantry, and dessert station.
- Crafted fresh pasta, gnocchi, risotto, and pastries; prepped essential ingredients for hot line.
- Gained experience on grill station, learning whole hog butchery, critical timing of protein cooking and sautéed item coordination with fine dining plating.
Sous Chef
Heirloom Food Truck
Boulder, Colorado
08.2011 - 01.2015
- Established partnerships with Aspen Moon, Ollin, and Munson farms for our "Farm to Truck" concept.
- Prepped daily menu at commissary, loaded all necessary tools and equipment, drove to and from events, unloaded and properly stored food, and cleaned all dishes and truck.
- Displayed excellent multi-tasking and customer service skills, including cooking, plating, taking orders, and charming patrons with delicious dishes and charisma.
Cook/Waitress/Dishwasher
Jamestown Mercantile Cafe
Jamestown, CO
04.1999 - 08.2011
- First job at hometown's 10 Table Cafe, starting as a dishwasher at age 11, waiting tables by age 13, cooking by age 15, often being the only employee on shift, assuming all three roles with a four-page menu of scratch cooking.
- Created daily specials like biscuits and gravy, Thursday night chef's choice dinners, and Friday tapas, delighting locals and generating return tourist business.
- Instilled a strong work ethic and unwaivering loyalty instilled to this day, treating all kitchens as family.
Skills
- Passion for fine dining
- Learn and adapt quickly
- Strong knife skills
- Fresh pasta
- Pastry and baking
- Butchery
- Great attitude and work ethic
- Recipe adherence and development
- Inventory management
- Efficient multi-tasking and time management
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Attention to detail
- Effective communication
- Proper cooking techniques
- Food safety and sanitation
- Plating and presentation
- Customer service
- Creative problem solving
Interests
- Vegetable gardening, writing and playing music, throwing pottery (functional kitchen ware!)
References
- Gold Hill Inn - Owners Brian and Chris Finn, Sous Chef Stephanie Drozda-Meyers - (303) 443-6461
- Cal-Wood - Executive Chef - Shane Lovelady - 1 (336) 254-6276
- Bluff Street B&B - Prior Executive Chef - Treis Rainey - (720) 899-8232
Timeline
Prep Line Cook
Gold Hill Inn
05.2024 - Current
Night Kitchen Manager/Cook
Cal-Wood Education Center
05.2022 - 12.2023
Bluff Street Bar & Billiards
12.2017 - 05.2020
Pantry Line Cook
Lucky Pie Pizza & Tap House
01.2017 - 12.2017
Pantry Line Cook
Colterra
01.2015 - 12.2016
Sous Chef
Heirloom Food Truck
08.2011 - 01.2015
Cook/Waitress/Dishwasher
Jamestown Mercantile Cafe
04.1999 - 08.2011