NAZIA AHMER
Cakes n Flavours by Naz @cakesnflavoursbynaz
C: 647-***-**** ********@*****.**
Professional Summary
Cake Decorator with over 15 months experience creating beautiful custom cakes for special occasions. Wide range of skills includes fondant, gum paste, modeling chocolate and buttercream work.
Education/Certification/Courses
High School Diploma Khatoon Collegiate
Cake Decorating Certificate George Brown College
Courses completed:
Baking Arts (pies, cookies, log cakes, cakes, tarts, éclairs, chocolates)
Cake Decorating 1 (piping and masking through the use of various icings, including buttercream and royal icing)
Cake Decorating 2 (working with marzipan, pastillage, rolled fondant and royal icing. Using different piping tips, practice creating the effect of fine lace pieces and beautiful brush embroidery. Complement specialty cake with cocoa painting, stencilling, quilting, bas-relief)
Cake Decorating 3 (ribbon insertion, ruffling, pleating, draping, ruching, tufted billows and ribbon roses, as well as painting on sugar)
Cake 1 (layering, filling and masking a variety of cakes (including pound cake, carrot cake, chiffon cake, hot milk cake and chocolate cake)
Gum Paste Flowers (foliage and flowers, including roses and peonies. colour flowers with petal dusts and arrange/wire them into elegant bouquets to top off any specialty cake)
Sculpted and Specialty Cakes (created novelty cakes and cakes using established designs as well as sculpted cakes like mushrooms and owl)
String Works (advanced piping skills, gravity-defying Oriental string work and Australian string work)
Sugar Sculpting and Modelling (created three-dimensional figures to complement any special occasion cake, construct lively, colourful characters and accent pieces through sculpting and modelling techniques)
Experience
Online Cake Store Owner Oct 2018 till Present
Cakes n Flavours by Naz @cakesnflavoursbynaz
Custom cakes for special events and birthdays
Custom dessert tables with many variations and options
Developed new products based on seasonal ingredients, holidays and dessert trends
Carefully and attentively took customer orders by phone and in person
Managed inventory, labor, expenses and other operational processes.
Supervisor Mar 2017 till Present
Tim Hortons Toronto, On
Key holder, including counting cash, opening and closing cash registers and creating staff assignments
Demonstrate that customers come first by serving them with a sense of urgency.
Up-sold additional menu items, beverages and desserts to increase restaurant profits.
Responsible for training new & existing employees
Multi task & move around in all positions efficiently as requested by manager.
Communicated clearly and positively with co-workers and management.
Resolved guest complaints promptly and professionally.
Polling Clerk Oct 2015 & Oct 2019
Election Canada
Assists the deputy returning officer to set up and open the polling station
Ensures that the elector provides satisfactory proof of identity and address before voting
Hands the ballot to the elector and indicates the instruction to follow
Assists the deputy returning officer to ensure the voting proceeds in an orderly fashion
Locates the elector’s name on the list of electors and strikes it through
Assists with counting the ballots
Volunteer Sep 2017 – Dec 2017
Liberal Party of Canada
Make outbound calls to Liberal party new/existing party voters
Call new/existing voters asking them to attend events or to volunteer in an event
Follow-up with voters/volunteers and answered all their questions/concerns regarding event
Perform data entry services and inputted voters/volunteer’s information in web-portal
Prepare, input, validate voter’s data in Liberal party web-portal
100 percent compliance with Liberal party voter’s personal & confidential information
Sales Associate Mar 2002 – Dec 2003
Atlantic Gems & Jewellers - Toronto, On
Work as a sales associate in a chain of Jewellery stores
Responsible for opening and closing the store
Responsible for ordering the merchandise from vendor
Responsible for stocking the Jewellery in displays
References: Available upon request and all of my creative work (pictures) available upon request