Experience

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  Ben & Jerry's

  • South Burlington, VT

  • Primal Ice Cream Therapist

    • 2008 - Present
    • South Burlington, VT

    o Product developer with an eye to innovation. o Primary focus has been on a series of novelty ice cream productso New product liaison with EU, Israel and Canada o Video and interview PR for Japan launch, Fair Trade flavors and new product releases. o Spent year at Colworth House, Unilever R&D facility in the UK working on top secret project.o Developed Spectacular Speculoos, Peanut Buttah and Boom Chocolattla in the new Cookie Core line for 2015.o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2vydpNw2o

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  New England Culinary Institute (NECI)

  • Montpelier, VT

  • Chef Instructor

    • 2005 - 2008
    • Montpelier, VT

    o Taught students food science, cooking theory and history of culinary arts at one of the finest, hands-on culinary institutes. o Created and collected/wrote all content for a new class in research and development, in which students blitz-researched the market and product design including nutritional and packaging aspects. This class keeps NECI current with trends in the ever changing food industry.

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  Rhino Foods

  • Burlington, Vermont Area

  • Senior Food Technologist

    • 2001 - 2004
    • Burlington, Vermont Area

    o Developed new bakery goods and frozen dessert products including bench top research and formulationo Wrote procedures for manufacturing and Specifications for customerso Provided nutritional analysis and Quality guidelines . o Coordinated initial new concept production and commercialization

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  Palate Jazz

  • Montpelier, Vermont

  • Principle

    • 1996 - 2001
    • Montpelier, Vermont

    o Palate Jazz provided the food industry with new concepts including small batch prototypes, specifications and formulas, scale ups, consumer research and facilitation of ideation sessions.o Partial list of Clients: Nestle, Smuckers, American Seafoods Company,Oregon Chai, Cascadian Farm, Ben & Jerry’s, and Brio.

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  Ben & Jerrry's Ice Cream

  • Waterbury, Vermont

  • Primal Ice Cream Therapist

    • 1988 - 1996
    • Waterbury, Vermont

    o Established Research and Development department at Ben & Jerry’s. o Designed original R&D Laboratory at Ben & Jerry’so Served as founding member and grand poobah of the Joy Gango Initiated process for transferring R&D concepts to manufacturingo Developed Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Rainforest Crunch, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Wavy Gravy,Peace Pops, Fred and Ginger, Chubby Hubby, Coconut Almond Fudge and Low Fat Frozen Yogurt.o Started Flavor of the Month program with 50 new flavors o Conducted focus groups for Sorbet, Frozen Yogurts and line extensionso Promoted Ben & Jerry's in UK and Israel

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  New England Culinary Institute (NECI)

  • Montpelier, Vermont

  • Chef Instructor

    • 1984 - 1987
    • Montpelier, Vermont

    o Instructed students in baking techniques, cooking and decorative garnish work. o Lectured on kitchen sciences and history of culinary arts and foods.

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  Series of Chef/Baker Experiences

  • multiple

  • Cher/Baker/Caterer

    • 1977 - 1984
    • multiple

    o Rebecca’s Restaurant - Sous Chef/Line Chefo Today’s Bread - Bakero Theatre at Monmouth - Chef/Actoro The Black Forest of Cambridge - Head Baker/Line Chefo The Bakery Project - Bakero Mother Morgan’s Gumbo Factory and Live-in Restaurant, honey, Ltd.- General Factotum