Experience

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  City Kitchen Catering

  • Event Chef

    • Oct 2015 - Present

    Food execution in parties...anything and everything involved in that process for high-end, off-site Catering.

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  Glass Mountain Magazine

  • United States

  • Assistant Poetry Editor

    • Aug 2017 - May 2019
    • United States

    Read all entries, discuss the publishable ones with the team, help with finalizations for the bi-yearly publication.

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  Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc.

  • Associate Trip Support Specialist

    • Sep 2012 - May 2014

    Coordinate with a cross functional sales and operations team to ensure nationwide and international trips are well-supported.Collect input and feedback from our customers on their trips, and design their desired solution from our array of available services.Develop relationships with regular patrons and potential new customers, and drive continued use of our trip services.Act as an integral piece of the escalation chain when there is an issue with a scheduled flight.Train new employees on our company policies and on any new programs that are developed.

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  Chick-fil-A Restaurants

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Marketing Director

    • Oct 2011 - Jun 2012
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Develop promotions and activities to drive traffic into Chick Fil A locations.Collaborate with our corporate marketing team to develop campaign materials, and roll these materials out into the market.Manage restaurant traffic, and ensure that we maintained a strong return customer rate.Manage relationships with critical partners to keep suppliers happy, and keep our franchisees happy

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  TRU Meals

  • Executive Chef

    • Mar 2009 - Apr 2010

    Managed social media, and served as the local representative for TRU Meals.Taught classes to clients to drive adoption of TRU Meals and grow our awareness in market.Managed 25 employees to ensure a positive customer experience, including all training, hiring and firing.

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  Rockefeller Hall

  • Event Specialist

    • Apr 2007 - Apr 2009

    Grassroots marketing and special events promotion to drive attendance.

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  Owl Creek Ranch

  • Nutritionist and Diet Planner

    • Oct 2003 - Nov 2005

    Consulted with clients and prepared special meal plans consistent with their unique tastes and expectations. Wrote, and subsequently led the training of, business operating policies and procedures.Hiring and firing employees. All event organization, budgeting, promotion to include leading facilitation of each.

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  Houston Hyatt Regency

  • Corporate Catering Management Trainee

    • Jul 2001 - Oct 2001

    **Laid off for 9/11 and Enron Collapse**Prepare I-9s for IRS Audits, Accounting, Purchasing, Inventory and other general office duties.Train in all areas of the hotel, to eventually settle in Event Planning.

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  Medallion Corporation

  • Please see description for all positions held in my time with this company

    • May 1995 - May 1997

    Houston Medallion Hotel Restaurant Supervisor, PBX Operator Austin North Hilton Line Cook/Banquet Chef, Baker, Garde Manger