Experience

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  Managing multiple Private Estates

  • Brentwood, California

  • Estate Manager for Client

    • Mar 2016 - Present
    • Brentwood, California

    Working for a fantastic family overseeing multiple properties. Involved in all aspects of the day to day operations while working with teams of great people bringing it all together.

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  Private Client

  • Beverly Hills, California

  • Private Estate Manager for client in Beverly Hills

    • Jul 2013 - Jun 2015
    • Beverly Hills, California

    Managing a beautiful property in the flats of Beverly Hills. Wonderful family with a busy lifestyle. Staff, vendors, maintenance and construction projects. Developing systematic maintenance calendars. Creating in depth inventories, which will be the foundation to household manuals. Scheduling ven...

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  Private Client

  • Bel Air, California

  • Private Estate Manager for client in Bel Air

    • Jun 2012 - Jan 2013
    • Bel Air, California

    Managing Private Client's needs and a staff of 9.

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  Private Client

  • Private Estate Manager and Personal Chef in Malibu

    • Sep 2002 - Jan 2011

    •Responsibilities consisting of Estate and householdmanagement for multiple properties. •Accounting of expenses, petty cash and banking activities. Financial reports. •Managerial overview of staff. Hands on approach to working with staff.•Supervision of staffing with setting up daily organization...

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  Private Clients

  • Personal Chef

    • Oct 2001 - Sep 2002

    Working for various clients as a Personal Chef.

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  Capistrano's at Mandalay Beach Resort

  • Executive Chef

    • Sep 2000 - Aug 2001

    Hired to give restaurant and catering a complete makeover of all culinary operating procedures. Included in these are day-to-day kitchen operations, restaurant dinning room, bar, room service and catering. Developed software for inventory costs, complete costing of menus automatically linked to ...

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  Amadeus Restaurant and Bar

  • Executive Chef

    • 1998 - 1999

    Opening of this restaurant included development of menu, hiring and training of kitchen staff of 25, design of kitchen and purchase of equipment, managerial responsibilities ranged from coordinating construction and applying health and building codes, to training of dinning room staff of food ing...

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  Drai's Restaurant

  • Executive Sous Chef

    • 1994 - 1998

    Sous Chef under the Fabulously Famous Claude SegalAll aspects of food service and catering. Participated in the post opening of the highly acclaimed restaurant specializing in southern-French cuisine with annual dollar volume of 6 million. With seating of 180 and parties of up to 500, including s...

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  Mabe Restaurant

  • Executive Sous Chef

    • 1988 - 1991

    As Assistant to Executive Chef Claude Segal. Responsible for the preparation and finishing of all foods, staff supervision, training, scheduling and purchasing. Catered to the stars in this posh Beverly Hills Restaurant. Specializing in French Californian cuisine, a high volume restaurant which h...

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  Four Oaks Restaurant

  • Executive Sous Chef

    • 1987 - 1988

    I was introduced to Chef Claude Segal by Chef Michel Pasquet, for whom I was a Stagiaire in his Paris restaurant. As his assistant and Sous Chef I was responsible for the preparation of all foods, staff supervision, training, purchasing and ordering. This Bel-Air restaurant set a new standard in ...

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  Maison Martel Restaurant

  • Akron, Ohio

  • Chef de Cuisine

    • 1978 - 1987
    • Akron, Ohio

    I started here at my father's restaurant as a dishwasher. Soon began making salads and desserts, then on to the hot lines. My father was my inspirational mentor and a genius in melding flavors and textures that I myself would never had imagined.