Experience

Matthew Kenney Cuisine

• United States
• Health, Wellness & Fitness
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bartender

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Working in a fast paced environment as the sole week night bartender for a 50+ seat restaurant which has taught me invaluable lessons in effective time management, patience and creative problem solving. I was also in charge of helping build the fall 2021 cocktail menu and through my usage of hospitality skills and effective marketing saw my cocktail become one of the best selling cocktail for the season. Working in a fast paced environment as the sole week night bartender for a 50+ seat restaurant which has taught me invaluable lessons in effective time management, patience and creative problem solving. I was also in charge of helping build the fall 2021 cocktail menu and through my usage of hospitality skills and effective marketing saw my cocktail become one of the best selling cocktail for the season.



Central Illinois Refugee Center

• Legal Advocate/Case Management Assistant

  • Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

  Helped my director to sort and organize legal files, Wrote Legal briefs, Provided translation for clients in French and Vietnamese. While I was there I implemented a team management scheme to help teams communicate and uphold accountability which resulted in a decrease in time between emails and information being relayed from an average to 72 hours to an average of 24 hours. Through the use of detailed analytic skills to produce evidence based advocacy briefs, one of my client was granted a new trial on their impending deportation case during my short time at the organization. Show less