Experience

Lowder-Tascarella Hospitality

• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  New York City Metropolitan Area We help property owners to program, open, and operate profitable, memorable, and socially significant hospitality destinations.



Proof & Company

• Singapore
• Food & Beverages
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager, Greater China

  • Aug 2020 - Aug 2021

  Greater China Promoted to General Manager of Greater China region, including Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. Managing all procurement, logistics, sales, marketing and finance for all of our products and services in the Greater China region. 25 employees in four offices - Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

• General Manager, China

  • Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

  China

• Spirits Evangelist

  • Feb 2017 - Dec 2018

  Shanghai City, China Senior creative lead tasked with beverage program development in luxury & boutique hotels across Mainland China. Works closely with hotel management and on-site F&B teams to create and execute financially successful world-class beverage programs that adhere to the highest standards of art and service. Actively works to build China's bartending community by delivering staff & consumer educations, planning & executing cocktail events, and hosting international talents in China.



Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts

• Canada
• Hospitality
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head Bartender

  • Aug 2015 - Jan 2017

  Seoul, Korea - Responsible for bar hospitality, cocktail creation, and beverage menu curation for the hotel's six bars and restaurants, as well as banquets and room service. - Responsible for staff spirits and cocktail education in the hotel's eleven points of cocktail production - Coordinates with the hotel's banquets team to plan and execute custom cocktail services for clients - Plans and oversees the hotel's program for the centralized preparation of hand-cut ice, fresh juice, custom syrups… Show more - Responsible for bar hospitality, cocktail creation, and beverage menu curation for the hotel's six bars and restaurants, as well as banquets and room service. - Responsible for staff spirits and cocktail education in the hotel's eleven points of cocktail production - Coordinates with the hotel's banquets team to plan and execute custom cocktail services for clients - Plans and oversees the hotel's program for the centralized preparation of hand-cut ice, fresh juice, custom syrups, spirit infusions, and cocktail batching across all F&B outlets Show less



The NoMad Hotel

• United Kingdom
• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bar Manager

  • Jul 2014 - Aug 2015

  1170 Broadway, New York, NY - Managed a team of 23 bartenders and 14 barbacks in the simultaneous operation of two volume cocktail bars and five private event spaces. - Coordinated with a prep team and the special events team to plan, stock, organize, and execute daily lunch and dinner service, as well as onsite and offsite private events. - Educated, trained and led the NoMad floor team in knowledgeable and hospitable beverage sale and service

• Head of Bar Education

  • Sep 2014 - Jul 2015

  1170 Broadway, Manhattan - Directed, taught, and organized spirits and cocktail education classes for bar and restaurant staff at The NoMad and Eleven Madison Park.

• Bartender

  • May 2013 - Jul 2014

  1170 Broadway, Manhattan - Trained by Leo Robitschek and Jess Gonzales (Death & Co.) to consistently execute Michelin Star-level service at an extremely high volume while being articulate in a dynamic selection of wine, beer, food, and cocktails - Led staff education in spirit and cocktail knowledge by organizing and teaching classes for NoMad and Eleven Madison Park staff.



Amor y Amargo

• United States

• Bartender

  • Jul 2012 - Jul 2014

  443 E. 6th St. Manhattan - Trained by Sother Teague to become fluent in creating classic cocktail variations using any spirit, potable bitter, or tincture bitter while educating guests about amaro, aromatized wine, and cocktail theory. - Cross-trained and tended upstairs at Cienfuegos to learn tiki and punch bowl service.



Momofuku, Booker and Dax

• Cocktail Prep, Barback

  • Mar 2012 - Aug 2012

  207 Second Ave. Manhattan - Learned Dave Arnold’s techniques, including ISI rapid infusions, syrup adjustment via refractometer, juice clarification via centrifuge, cocktail preservation via liquid nitrogen, and batch cocktail carbonation. - Prepared all pre-batched cocktails, syrups, and juices for service. Assisted bartenders with cocktail creation and service.



China Monitor ISG

• Director of Marketing

  • Aug 2011 - Mar 2012

  Wilmington, Delaware - Was responsible for critical branding decisions including company logo and website design. - Researched and wrote China Pulse - a weekly journal translating and summarizing China's economic, industrial and financial news stories for a western audience. - Drafted all text for company marketing materials introducing China Monitor, its members and its partners. - Played a critical role in organizing the 2011 CEInet conference on China's development. - Developed all marketing… Show more - Was responsible for critical branding decisions including company logo and website design. - Researched and wrote China Pulse - a weekly journal translating and summarizing China's economic, industrial and financial news stories for a western audience. - Drafted all text for company marketing materials introducing China Monitor, its members and its partners. - Played a critical role in organizing the 2011 CEInet conference on China's development. - Developed all marketing material for promoting this conference and interfaced with global information company IHS to help coordinate invitation and manage guest lists.

• Director of Translation

  • Feb 2011 - Aug 2011

  Wilmington, Delaware - Worked with Director Ryan Lovdahl to establish systems and protocol that allowed the department to grow from two translators to a staff of sixteen translators within a year. - Established a proprietary database of industrial and economic translation terms and established protocol for refining and correcting that database to expand it to 17,000 carefully vetted 1:1 translations of highly technical terms. - Led a team of translators to translate quarterly and annual industrial economic… Show more - Worked with Director Ryan Lovdahl to establish systems and protocol that allowed the department to grow from two translators to a staff of sixteen translators within a year. - Established a proprietary database of industrial and economic translation terms and established protocol for refining and correcting that database to expand it to 17,000 carefully vetted 1:1 translations of highly technical terms. - Led a team of translators to translate quarterly and annual industrial economic reports from CEInet. - Led a project to translate the CEInet industrial database and recode it into English html. - Was responsible for speed-reading and re-editing 100+ page annual industry reports to transform them from their original Chinese format into 4-6 pages of condensed and reorganized English text on 5-day deadlines. - Organized and presented qualitative feedback for improving CEInet reports that directly led to a full reorganization of the CEInet report production model. - Acted as interpreter for meetings in Beijing between the company CEO Dr. G. Dennis O'Brien and State Information Center Vice President Li Kai.

• Translator

  • Sep 2010 - Feb 2011

  Wilmington, Delaware - Served as the company's first translator. Worked alone and in teams to translate industrial reports written by the China Economic Information Network into English. - Researched and explained key aspects of the Chinese industrial economy for a western audience.



University of Delaware

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teacher's Assistant

  • Jan 2011 - Feb 2011

  Beijing, China - Served as interpreter and assistant for University of Delaware students in Beijing. - Planned and taught course in survival Chinese to non-speakers of Mandarin.

• Chief Assistant

  • Aug 2010 - Feb 2011

  Newark, Delaware - Served as Chief Assistant to Dr. Jianguo Chen - Director of the University of Delaware branch of the Confucius Institute. - Served as the bilingual emcee for Confucius Institute events at the University of Delaware, including the opening ceremonies of the institute, itself.

• Chief Assistant

  • Jun 2010 - Jul 2010

  Shanghai, China - Served as the chief assistant for the State Department's National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program in Shanghai.