Melissa Hellings
**** ******** *** **. ******, KY Cell: 859-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.*** OBJECTIVE
A results-oriented professional with over 15 years in the hospitality industry looking to utilize customer service skills, communication expertise and an eye for detail in the sales/marketing field. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Customer Service
• Highly skilled at addressing and anticipating customer needs in an efficient manner.
• Proficient at establishing and maintaining relationships with diverse clientele to ensure their return.
• Ability to remain client-focused in a fast paced environment with distractions and interruptions. Interpersonal Communication
• Management experience that requires expertise in oral communication and the ability to quickly and concisely relay information to employees, vendors and customers.
• Ability to make decisions in an appropriate and timely fashion while maintaining a level of satisfaction for all stakeholders.
• Engage and communicate with guests in a way that makes them feel welcomed, acknowledged and appreciated.
Detail Oriented
• Skilled at adapting to an ever changing market by paying close attention to consumer preference and trends.
• Product knowledge as a means of assisting clients through the buying selection process of beer, wine and spirits based on type of event as well as individual need and budget.
• Takes initiative to keep bar stocked, cleaned and well organized in order to highlight products and purposefully direct customer attention.
WORK HISTORY
• Camporosso, Bartender 2017-
Present
• Blinker’s Tavern, Bartender/Shift Supervisor
2012-2014
• Grandview Tavern, Assistant Manager
2008-2012
• The Beer Sellar, Bartender
2005-2007
• Barts on York, Bar Manager
2003-2005
• Cutting Edge Selections, Wine Sales
2002-2003
• The Federal Reserve Piano Lounge, Bartender
2000-2002
EDUCATION
Thomas More College – Crestview Hills, KY Expected Graduation Date: May, 2018