David Utley

Email: abpist@r.postjobfree.com

Address: ** ***** *** *****

City: absecon

State: NJ

Zip: 08201

Country: USA

Phone: 224-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: $135,000

Willing to Relocate

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David O. Utley Absecon, NJ. 08201

224-***-****

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( KEY SUCCESS INDICATORS)

*Ability and expertise to develop best in class food concepts across a range of contemporary American cuisine disciplines with a strong background in Regional American Fusion

*Eaasily adaptable to changing priorities based on dynamics of the industry

*Strong ability to work with humility and build and excel in team based approach to innovation

*Understanding of a consumer centric organization and its role in innovation

* I have worked closely with SVP RD, Marketing and RD leads across the brands

*A provena ability to customize recipe creative based on individual brand identities and consumer targets for each brand

*I embrace value individualization of associates and leverages their unique talents to benefit the operation and organization.

* Open to application of proven creative ideas that can be tested and implemented

Experience:

BALLY`S PARK PLACE CASINO HOTEL & SPA ATLANTIC CITY NJ

2009- TO PRESENT

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT LAS VEGAS, NV

EXECUTIVE CHEF/ DIRECTOR OF CULINARY

1780 Room Hotel Casino w/ 14 outlets, 9 Restaurants including high end Italian and Steakhouse, outlets also a buffet, fast casual, bistro, Chinese noodle bar, 2 EDR dining room`s 3,800 employees

.Annual Food & Beverage Sales of $70 million staff of 25 chefs,170 union cooks and 75 stewards 80,000 sq. ft of banquet space

Central Gardemanager Department at Bally's producing all cold food Soup and sauce production for banquets, restaurants and buffet operations for 4 Caesar's properties in Atlantic city, totaling 22 restaurants and food outlet's

Develop all ice designs for 5 properties in Atlantic city, culinary team leader in region Continuous Improvement and kaizen events development implementation of menu engineering strategy resulting in $1.5 Million in overall all savings property wide

HARRAHS ST.LOUIS HOTEL & CASINO MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO.

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT LAS VEGAS, NV

EXECUTIVE CHEF

6 restaurants 11 food outlets, 125,000 sq. feet of gaming space 502 rom hotel

$35 million Food & Beverage annually

Brigade of 125 hourly culinary BOH employees, 14 salary direct reports room chefs, sous chefs, pastry chef, chief steward

COSI INC. DEERFIELD, 2004 -2009

Senior Director of Food and Beverage/Corporate Executive Chef

Responsible for the direction of food and beverage, operations of all food and beverage training and product innovation for this 151 unit, eclectic fast casual urban restaurant chain with sales of $180MM

.Hands-on, passionate Sr. Director with broad expertise in field operations and all day part menu offerings for food and beverage

.Developer of 100% of menu offerings with constant focus on product innovation, menu creativity and evaluation and roll out of multiple day part products

Lead all menu development and ideation with an aggressive food and beverage calendar with weekly tasting and rollout of 42 new menu items per year

Named 2005 Menu Innovator of the Year (Chain Operations) by Stagnitos magazine

Parents magazine Voted *1 Healthiest kids menu fast casual sector

CROWNE PLAZA BEACH RESORT, HILTON HEAD Island, SC 2001- 2004

Executive Chef

Voted Number 1 Crowne Plaza Resort in North America Division

Culinary management of 3 restaurant`s catering and room service operations,

F&B sales 8MM annually

340 room, AAA Four Diamond resort Voted 1 of top Crowne plaza hotels in North America division hosted the 2003 March of Dimes Star Chefs

STATION CASINO ST. CHARLES, ST. CHARLES, MO 1998 - 2001

Executive Chef

Responsibilities included Buffet, Fine dining and catering operations for this riverboat casino operation with five F&B outlets, 14MM annual F&B sales

Won awards including the St. Louis Tate of Elegance Bronze Medal in and 2nd place N.I.C.A. St. Charles on the Square Ice Carving Competition

GRAND BILOXI HOTEL RESORT & SPA BILOXI, MS. 1994 TO 1998

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT LAS VEGAS, NV

Executive Banquet Chef

Responsibilities included Opening culinary Hotel restaurant and banquet operations

Two Properties

AAA, Four Diamond hotel and spa Reported to the Vice President of Food and Beverage.Assisted in the opening of three additional hotel properties 1441 rooms

EDUCATION:

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAN CULINARY FEDERATION

Three-Year formal European Apprenticeship Program 6400 hours Hyatt Regency Hotel, AAS Degree Culinary Houston, Texas

University of Houston Downtown campus Houston, Tx.

Hotel Restaurant Management Diploma (BPS ) AHMA certified

Previous Positions:

Chef Gardemanager 4 years AAA 4 Diamond Hotel

Chef De cuisine 3 Years AAA 4 Diamond Restaurant

Honors and Awards:

2005 Menu innovator of the year Stagnitos magazine chain operations

Certified Executive Chef ACF- Certified Cook ACF,

Certified Ice Carver NICA Certified HAACP Instructor AHMA

Competed in numerous culinary competitions resulting in over 60 culinary medals 5 Best of shows and people choice awards both domestic and international medals, in ACF and non acf culinary competitions

Weekly TV cooking show KTBS Shreveport, Louisiana

Governors Inauguration Dinner Baton Rouge Louisiana.

RNC Convention GRB Convention Center assisted in Menu and operations.

Hosted catered Governors Forum Biloxi Ms. Grand Casino Theatre

Hosted Star chef benefit Crowne Plaza Beach Resort Hilton Head

Hosted Atlantic City 2012 Food and Wine Festival Bally`s Atlantic city

Candidate Resume - Jeff Woodrow

Contact Information -

Email: abpist@r.postjobfree.com

Address: 1050 Lexington Dr

City: Export

State: PA

Zip: 15632

Country: USA

Phone: 724-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $90,000

Willing to Relocate

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

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Career Summary

Accomplished manager with a dedicated career designing, building, managing and directing IS/IT operations in a wide range of challenging environments.

Strategic analyst, planner and problem solver with keen negotiation and communication skills. Successful in reducing costs through vendor selection, contract negotiations, technology advancement and process optimization.

Natural team leader with strong motivational skills and ability to produce and succeed. Equally strong in proactive and reactive situations.

CORE COMPETENCIES

* Establishing and managing high performance and motivated teams, optimizing resources to reach a shared vision/goal

* Driving standards design, process re-design, change management and continuous improvement strategies

* Guiding the appropriately prioritized, on-time and within budget delivery of technology projects

* Aligning technology investments with sound business strategies to enable growth and/or competitive advantage

Education Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA *Graduated with Highest Distinction

H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

Master of Public Management, Management of Financial Information and Resources

Management of Information Systems

Villanova University, Continuing Studies

Master Certificate - IS/IT Project Management

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Experience TubeCity IMS, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Project Management Consultant (contract) April 2012 - Sept 2012

* Provide client-side project management support for an ERP implementation effort. Effort to-date includes analysis workshop planning, FRD (functional requirements documents) creation, FRD approval process, fit/gap determination and prioritization, 'gap' design sessions and FDD (Functional Design Document) creation. Responsibilities include documenting change control process, maintaining Risk/Issues log, leading weekly Team Lead status meeting, 'budget vs. spend' cost analysis, update monthly expense actuals and review/approve monthly vendor invoices (external consultants).

Peoples Natural Gas, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Project Management Consultant (contract) December 2010 - September 2011

* Responsibility of coordination and status reporting for the implementation of a historical data warehouse. Done in conjunction with an SAP 6.0 implementation effort, the warehouse scope included SAP Financial, SAP HR and other non-SAP peripheral application areas. Effort involved identifying historical data requirements, user access requirements, extraction of source SAP / non-SAP data files, staging (loading) the extracted data into operational data stores and developing the requested data views (reports/queries).

Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) May 2009 - August 2010

* Responsibilities include the oversight and directing of the IS / IT organization, including Infrastructure (Datacenter and Field Operations), Applications Support & Development (Peoplesoft ERP and non-Peoplesoft applications) and Administrative Services (Records Mgmt, Reproduction, Postal Services and Helpdesk). Scope of responsibility spans providing leadership and framework to actively identify needs and resolution of critical issues, technology strategy, solutions and service management, cost and quality improvement, contract negotiations and customer / partner relations. Other particulars include project coordination, IS/IT representation for other senior management interaction (Board, Capital Committee, IT Steering Committee, etc.), budgetary oversight (annual, 5 year, 12 year capital and operating budget), procurement oversight, RFP creation and general personnel administration.

FedEx Corporation, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

FedEx Services - Senior Technical Analyst April 2007 - April 2009

Responsibilities include technical support and enhancement of the Peoplesoft applications of H/R, Benefits, Payroll and Time & Labor (version 8.9) for the FedEx Ground division. Scope includes production support, tax / version upgrades, performance issues, functional analysis, user requested enhancements to delivered functionality. Job scope includes activities associated with all phases of the typical project life-cycle; analysis, design, development, testing and implementation.

Port Authority of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Manager of Systems Support/Development May 2000 - April 2007

Responsibilities include the day-to-day operations management of the PeopleSoft Enterprise Package support group. Application modules include HR, Benefits, Time & Labor, Payroll, Pension, A/R, A/P, GL, Asset Mgmt, Projects, Budgets, Purchasing, Billing and Inventory. Primary focus of support staff includes production support, application enhancements, version upgrades, tax updates and Tools upgrades. Role also acts as primary liaison to all functional management / users with objective to facilitate problem resolution, define needs and goals and explain alternative solutions. Job scope also included role of client-side project manager for the PeopleSoft Financials upgrade to Version7.5, the PeopleSoft HRMS upgrade to version 8.8 as well as the upgrade to Tools V8.46 and the web-based Financials upgrade to version V8.9. Duties also include the evaluation of select PeopleSoft eApps within the HCM (Human Capital Management) realm along with authoring each RFP associated with these upgrades.

AK Steel / Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

PeopleSoft Implementation Consulting - Managing Lead (contract) July 1998 - May 2000

Duties involved technical assistance in implementation of the Payroll module (version 7.0) as well as primary responsibility for enhancement/support of a recently implemented HRIS module for a local steel company. Prior assignments involved providing assistance for a Payroll implementation (version 6.0) at a large Pittsburgh-based bank. Effort involved writing SQRs for Payroll reporting, data conversion and interfaces. Responsibilities of Managing Lead Consultant include the on-going administration of junior consultants (remote assignments).

Towers Perrin / Highmark Inc., Philadelphia/Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

PeopleSoft Implementation Consulting - Senior Consultant (contract) September 1995 - July 1998

Efforts involved assisting with a customized Revenue Accounting application, along with final implementation of a custom Billing application. Prior assignment involved an H/R / Benefits implementation project (version 5.10) for an internationally known consulting firm. Responsibilities including finalizing the reporting requirements and developing/customizing all PS Query, SQR, and Crystal Reporting needs.

Highmark Inc., Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Business Consulting (contract) February 1995 - August 1995

Coordinated various tasks of analysis, requirements gathering, and software evaluation for a project to consolidate Billing and A/R functions for a local health insurance provider. Software evaluation included review of RFI responses, evaluation of functionality, vendor reference calls, finalist (PeopleSoft and SQL Financials) comparison against business case scenarios, and compilation of comparison documentation.

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Project Management, Major Projects Development 1991 - 1994

Managed and/or co-managed a Cash Management Reconciliation, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable process re-engineering and activity-based cost analysis. Identified a total estimated annual cost savings of $700,000, realized through re-engineering of the business processes (streamlining operations), redefinition of job descriptions, elimination of non-value added activities and proposed automation opportunities.

Project Leader / Staff Assistant, Professional Services 1988 - 1991

Managed staffing resources, financial planning, billing administration, marketing, and sub-contracting in a small business environment (2.5 million in revenue) chartered to provide IS services to internal Westinghouse locations. Responsibilities included creation of project management standards/guidelines, proposal quality assurance, project estimating, project management for various PC applications and mainframe conversions, creating a department-wide development platform/foundation including methodology, standards, and guidelines

Achievements Selected for Westinghouse Management Assessment Center

Selected among first 20 corporate MIS employees to attend the initial Information Technology Transfer Seminar

Selected as PeopleSoft training instructor (SQL/SQR class) for newly hired B.I.T. consultants

Nominated, 'Consultant of the Year' during tenure with B.I.T.

Addendum

Technical Skills Summary

DBMS Software / Languages 3rd Generation Languages

Oracle Version 6 COBOL

SQL*Forms

SQL*Plus

PL*SQL Operating Systems

SQR (Report Writer)

VMS

VM/CMS

IMS DB/DC MVS/TSO SPF

FOCUS MS DOS

Informix Novell Netware

Micro Focus COBOL UNIX

SQL Server 7.0 Windows NT

Visual Basic 6.0 / .NET Windows 2000

System Support Tools Application Areas

Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable

Job Control Language Human Resources, Benefits

JES 3 Payroll, Time & Labor

PANVALET Change Control General Ledger, Asset Mgmt

Inventory, Purchasing

Billing, Budgets, Pension

Project Productivity Tools IT Environment Enhancements

DFD Draw

Harvard Graphics LAN

Lotus Smart Suite WAN

AmiPro / Lotus 123 / Freelance SAN

Microsoft Office Server Virtualization

Excel / Word / PowerPoint / Access Provisioning Servers

Microsoft Project

Process Re-engineering Methodology

TimeLine

Business Objects

VISIO Graphics

Professional Managing the Technical Project, Project Management Concepts

development Chosen as training instructor for newly hired PeopleSoft consultants - SQL/SQR class

technical ORACLE-Implementing Relational Systems, Database Administration, Introduction to

development SQL Plus/SQL Forms, STRADIS-Development Method., IBM Data Modeling/Design

PeopleSoft: Intro to Human Resources, Intro to Benefits, Intro to Payroll,

PeopleTools I&II, PeopleCode, SQL/SQR, General Ledger I&II, PS/ nVision Reporting,

Intro to Financials, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable

Version 8.8: Human Resources/Benefits Accelerated, Payroll, Tools I&II Delta, Peoplecode Delta, Time & Labor, Security

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