GARY DUVALL

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Fort Collins, CO 80525

Cell: 970-***-****

Email: acv2gh@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a job where I can use my managerial skills, which I have precisely honed over the last twelve years.

WORK HISTORY

April 2004 GENERAL MANAGER

To Island Grill

Present Fort Collins, CO

Oversee all operations at the Island Grill in Fort Collins, CO. Began as Assistant Kitchen Manager at the Fort Collins, CO Island Grill and worked my way through the ranks to Kitchen Manager, became a Floor Manager while still running the kitchen, Assistant General Manager and promoted to General Manager of the Loveland location, then brought back to the Fort Collins location as General Manager

Helped Develop and cost current menu

Created several signature dishes, sauces and key ingredients on menu including: Seafood Enchiladas, Chipotle Cream Sauce, Jambalaya, Garlic Curry Spice, Wings with Dry Rubs, Shrimp Primavera pasta, Shrimp Scampi Parmesan, and Chipotle Shrimp and Chicken Penne.

Coordinate all catering events, on site and off site

Lowered kitchen labor

Lowered food cost from 37% to 32%

Dropped cost of goods by 6% at the Loveland location

Handle all Island Grill social media.

Sep 1999 KITCHEN MANAGER

To Linden’s Brewing Company

Oct 2003 Fort Collins, CO 80525

Began as line cook and moved my way up to Kitchen Manager.

Created Daily Specials

In charge of all ordering for the kitchen

In charge of labor for the kitchen

EDUCATION

June 1997 University of New Mexico

To Albuquerque, NM

May 1999 BA English Literature with an emphasis in Creative Writing

Maintained a 3.8 GPA while attending the University of New Mexico. Studied under department head Sharon Oard Warner author of the Novel, Deep in the Heart, and two collections of short

stories, The Way We Write Now: Short Stories From the AIDS Crisis and Learning to Dance and Other Stories.

Published in the University of New Mexico Literary Review: Conceptions Southwest

Published in CATCH magazine

Summer of 1998 took a Mexican Literature class in Jalapa, Mexico

Summer of 1998 traveled extensively through the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico and Belize

Sep 1987 West Georgia College

To Carrollton, GA

May 1990 Communications

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS/ SKILLS

Working Knowledge of Microsoft Windows, XCEL and Quick Books, POS experience

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Understand and speak Spanish

References upon request

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