Cake decorator

NAZIA AHMER

Cakes n Flavours by Naz @cakesnflavoursbynaz

C: 647-***-**** adf965@r.postjobfree.com

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

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