Resume

Skills / Qualifications

  • Experienced in customer service, cash, inventory control and general cleaning
  • Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word (2010)
  • Ability to utilize the internet for information
  • Warehouse Management, Inventory control and Asset management
  • Experience in food preparation, knife skills and portioning
  • Smart serve Certificate
  • Excellence in Customer Service Certificate
  • Food Safety Certification — 2014

Employment Experience

Lead Line Cook — Lazy Loon — 2017

  • Food prep, cooking orders to specification, plating
  • Put away food orders, inventory
  • Directing and ensuring other cooks follow specs and food safety practices
  • Training newly hired cooks
  • Opening the kitchen (Key holder)
  • General cleaning and sanitation duties

Kitchen Manager — Pub on the Hill — 2017

  • Run day to day operations of the kitchen; including but not limited to inventory, ordering, creating dishes, food costing, writing and creating recipes.
  • Prep food, cook orders on request, portioning
  • Directing and ensuring other cooks follow specs and food safety practices
  • Opening and closing kitchen (Key holder)
  • General cleaning and sanitation duties

Line Cook — Ricky's All Day Grill — 2016

  • Prepare foods, stock and clean line
  • Cook Various types of dishes on order
  • Equipment used; fryers, sauté station, grills, combi-oven, forno oven
  • Checking, recording and reporting temperatures of equipment
  • Opening and closing kitchen (key holder)
  • General cleaning and sanitation duties

Line Cook — Denny’s Restaurant — 2015

  • Prepare foods and stock line
  • Cook various types of dishes per customer’s order
  • Temperature checks, recording temperatures, freezer pulls
  • General cleaning duties and sanitation

Server — Geraldo’s at LaSalle Park — 2014

  • Carrying trays to tables and serving guests
  • Ensuring the guests happiness by keeping their water, bread and wine to full capacity.
  • Plating food, serving cocktails, bussing tables
  • Set up floor and break down tables

Inventory/Shipping Manager — REfficient Inc. — 2011 – 2014

  • Achieving all functional areas of performance (service, cost, quality and accuracy) for all channels of the warehouse
  • Daily workload/workflow (inbound/outbound and returns)
  • Making sound business adjustments to ensure warehouse is functional and efficient
  • Developing, implementing and enforcing standard operating procedures and daily work guidelines and processes that optimize resource utilization (people, equipment, technology)
  • Developing warehouse support through timely feedback, effective communication, proper expectations and training
  • Effectively collaborating and communicating with internal business partners (customer service, planning, quality and accounting, etc.)
  • Utilization of all distribution operations (inbound, inventory control, quality control and outbound functions)
  • Asset Management

Head Cook — Atherton’s cafe. — 1998 – 2001

  • Opening and closing restaurant
  • Food Prep, cooking various types of meals on customer’s request
  • Inventory control; keeping track of and replacing inventory as needed
  • Handling customer’s orders and cashier when required
  • Sanitizing work area, utensils and dishes

Education

2014 Humber Institute of Applied Technology Toronto, ON

  • Culinary Management

2014 Redhill Adult Learning Centre Hamilton, ON

  • OSSD

1989 Caledon Secondary School Hamilton, ON