Manager General
Resume:
GARY DUVALL
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Cell: 970-***-****
Email: *********@*****.***
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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