Experience

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  Industrias Alimenticias El Artesano

  • Costa Rica

  • President

    • Oct 2013 - Present
    • Costa Rica

    Responsible for the business development and operational launch of the first Corporate Pastry & Bakery for the Central American region.

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  Carnival Corporation

  • Grand Turk, Turk & Caicos

  • Corporate Consultant - Global Port & Destination Development Group

    • Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
    • Grand Turk, Turk & Caicos

    Successfully completed consulting work at Grand Turk Cruise Center.

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  Holland America Line

  • Hotel Manager

    • May 2007 - Sep 2012

    -In charge of the individual hotel operations aboard 5 cruise ships. Two mega ships, largest in size for the brand primarily for the North American market in 7 days & 14 days cruises. Three midsize ships doing reposition and extended cruises through the Caribbean, Panama Canal and South America.

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  Cafetalera Mistral

  • Costa Rica

  • Managing Director

    • 2005 - Jan 2012
    • Costa Rica

    Specialized in the development of coffee purposely for the hotel and catering industry. We have an establish relation with selected coffee estates in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama & Colombia.Our products are 100% Arabica beans, carefully selected and crafted. We oversee the process from the plantation to the cup.We offer single origin, estate origin, blends, organic, shade grown, sundried and Fair Trade certified. Packging is available in consumer and institutional presentations.

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  Norwegian Cruise Line

  • Hotel Director

    • Oct 1983 - Mar 2005

    Through the course of my employment with NCL, worked through a number of positions resulting these last with 10 yrs as Hotel Director, 4 years as Food & Beverage Dir and 2 yrs as Corp. Hotel Controller.During my last years I was charge of the on board hotel operations on a number of cruise ships varied in capacity raging from 750 guests to 2,600 guests, with varied market segment, product and brand. In that process spearhead a number of hotel related projects part of the organization's business plan extending these to joint ventures, management contracts involving third parties and cruise ship re-brand reorganization.