Experience

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  Alys' Restaurant

  • La Veta , CO.

  • Chef/Owner

    • May 2012 - Present
    • La Veta , CO.

    Fine dining by reservation only. Look me up at alysrestaurant.com

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  Self Employed

  • Private Chef

    • 2008 - Present

    Catering, Personal Chef, teaching Cooking and Baking demonstrations for Adult Education.

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  Alys' Fireside Cafe

  • Executive Chef/ Owner

    • Dec 1994 - Mar 2008

    Responsible for all facets of operating a restaurant, from both the Front and Back of the House. The blackboard menu was eclectic, fine dining, and changing to reflect seasons and market availability. To quote The Denver Post I was..." dishing out the divine".

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  Takasago International Corp. (USA)

  • Manager, Flavor Marketing

    • 1987 - 1993

    Responsibilities included advertising, marketing and expositions. Created product specific advertisements and brochures tied to the company logo which aided in increasing trademark recognition and awareness. Organized trade show exhibits from design to set-up and tear-down. Prepared and arranged new product presentations to customers; wrote and prepared slide shows and speeches for marketing presentations.

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  Takasago

  • Manager, Flavor Applications

    • 1985 - 1987

    Directed the start-up of the Flavor Application Laboratory including the flavor library, handling technical sales/service requests and running evaluation panels. Responsible for creative prototype development for presentations to customers and trade show demonstrations.

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  National Starch and Chemical

  • Food Scientist

    • 1981 - 1984

    Flavor application activities with emphasis on the creation of prototypes, development of products and a highly successful technical customer service program.

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  Thomas J. Lipton CO. (Unilever)

  • Food Scientist

    • 1971 - 1980

    Product development and improvement for a variety of new and existing food products, flavor development, recipe tolerances, new product creation and demonstrations, label and packaging copy information, quality control specifications, pilot plant trial runs and technical assistance in plant start-ups.