Experience

KRG Hospitality Inc.

• Canada
• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Master Mixologist

  • May 2022 - Present

  - Work with our team to create world class bars & restaurants. - Train staff on everything behind the bar including; 'classic' cocktails, contemporary, and technique. - Use creativity to cultivate stories, experiences, and flavors that will remain for years to come. - Work around “themes, brands, and concepts” while maintaining a high level of integrity. - Offer the ‘unexpected’ while maintaining classic techniques and up-to-date knowledge of market and culinary trends. - Prepare homemade ingredients and offer cocktail innovations. - Specialize in: education, bar design, training, and brand building. - Offer a major social connection of industry trendsetters as a source to fulfill our clients’ needs. - Ultimately to help out Hospitality in anyway I can as a beverage expert and consultant Show less



Proximo Spirits

• United States
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Canadian National Whiskey Ambassador

  • Jun 2019 - Jun 2022

  - Manage national key accounts via education, brand building activities and relationship management. - Represent the brand at key marketing and promotional brand activations (ex. Whiskey/Whisky tastings, experiential events, etc.). - Educate and reinforce brand attributes with key partners of the Proximo Spirits Whiskey portfolio. - Educate sampling staff/trade on the featured brands via category knowledge, brand touchpoints, production processes, and taste profiles. - Curate and execute relevant brand programming based on key brand initiatives and milestones to keep educational content dynamic and engaging with the target audience. - Answer consumer and trade questions while building their base of whiskey category knowledge. - Liaise between brand, sales, trade marketing and target accounts to ensure program sell-in and executions meet brand quality standards. - Provide consistent feedback on programming metrics, competitive activity, in-market best practice, success highlights and brand opportunities. - Elevate our client’s portfolio presence and expertise within Whiskey across Canada while spearheading a national whiskey educational platform that educates and engages industry influencers on our client’s whiskey brands (Bushmills, Pendleton, Stranahan’s, Proper No. Twelve , TINCUP, & The Sexton). Show less



Property Mixologist Seminole Hardrock Hotel and Casino

• Property Mixologist

  • Nov 2014 - Nov 2015

  Create: design menus, design bars, conceptualize, train staff, implement, speak on behalf of the brand, represent the concepts, be a leader to all bartenders on property. Create: design menus, design bars, conceptualize, train staff, implement, speak on behalf of the brand, represent the concepts, be a leader to all bartenders on property.


Pisco Porton
• United States
• Software Development
• Area Manager

  • Apr 2014 - Oct 2014

Flatiron Lounge
• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Barman

  • Jul 2011 - Jul 2014


TAG

• Bolivia
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Barman

  • Jun 2009 - May 2010

  Help create and manage the most progressive bar program in Denver,CO. Retain knowledge in current global food trends. Educate guests on modern innovative cocktails and classic cocktails. Re-establish the bar as a serious profession. Create new ingredients and new techniques while tending bar. Serve the food of a regional renowned chef in a progressive market. Help create and manage the most progressive bar program in Denver,CO. Retain knowledge in current global food trends. Educate guests on modern innovative cocktails and classic cocktails. Re-establish the bar as a serious profession. Create new ingredients and new techniques while tending bar. Serve the food of a regional renowned chef in a progressive market.