Experience

Rapa Nui

• Netherlands
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Chef

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  my responsibilities include: Overseeing the entire process of daily event functions including: weddings, walking-dinners and barbecues, creating specialised menus, making sure inventory is in order, monitoring the mise and place process and making sure service runs smooth and orderly whilst maintaining high food standards. Responsible for employee scheduling, striking a balance between keeping staff costs low and making sure enough employees are on the roster to ensure safety, high food standards and an evenly distributed work load. Creating daily changing specials using on hand ingredients and expertise, creating, testing and developing a seasonal menu that would change entirely based on the seasons and its available produce, managing and training a team of 20 kitchen staff, enforce strict adherence to sanitation and food safety precautions, monitor kitchen inventory to avoid food waste. Show less



Sandy Hill

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Chef

  • Apr 2019 - Sep 2021

  Beachclub Sandy hill is a seasonal restaurant located on the Dutch coast. My responsibilities included: creating daily changing specials using on hand ingredients and expertise, creating, managing and training a team of 5 cooks, enforce strict adherence to sanitation and food safety precautions, monitor kitchen inventory to avoid food waste, maintaining good working relationships with our suppliers, creating, testing and developing monthly changing menus. Prepping for a high volume service. Show less



AutoStar Transport Express

• United States
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Transportation Broker

  • Oct 2018 - Nov 2019

  Autostar is a Miami based broker company active on the United States automotive and transportation market with part of its sales and operations department located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As transport broker i acted as an intermediary between vehicle transporters and independent car haulers and individuals or company’s that need their vehicle transported. The job involves double end sales and coordinating logistics. As transport broker you work in a fast paced, high stress environment on a competitive market. Being successful requires persistence, patience, knowledge, and dedication. While being employed by Autostar I have managed to improve on my sales and organisational skills as well as my phone and administration skills. Show less



Donna Italia

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Manager, Benelux

  • Nov 2016 - Jun 2018

  My responsibilities included: managing a team of 4 employees, schedule training sessions between ouroperations staff and customers on how to use our products, maintaining good relations with our customers and responsible for performing additional sales, working closely with our sales department to ensure a smooth experience for our customers, regularly visiting our customers to discuss special needs, once a year organise, from start to finish, our 5 day stand at the largest hospitality fair of the Netherlands, organising weekly team meetings. While being employed by Donna Italia as both a junior sales representative as the operational manager overseeing the Benelux I have managed to improve on my management skills as well as my sales and organisational skills, I have actively contributed to the exponential growth of the company and the building of a loyal high end customer base, effectively making Donna Italia the market leader within two years with a sales growth exceeding 2400% Show less

• Junior Account Manager

  • Jun 2016 - Nov 2016

  My responsibilities included: cold calling potential new clients, deliver presentations and demonstrate products to customers, identify the needs of our customers and ensure that they where met, collect customer feedback. During my time as junior sales representative I have contributed to the exponential growth of the company, often exceeding set targets.



Jopen BV Haarlem

• Netherlands
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sous Chef

  • Jan 2009 - Sep 2012

  The jopen kerk is a grand cafe/brewery/fine dining establishment. I was part of the crew working sinds the opening in 2010. My responsibilities included: working directly with the head chef in creating a monthly changing menu out of predominantly locally sourced ingredients using the ‘farm to table’ principle, enforce strict adherence to sanitation and food safety precautions, monitor section inventory to avoid food waste, prioritising prepping duties to meet deadline in a fast paced, crowded kitchen, maintain a safe, clean and orderly work area, Show less