Head chef international Cuisine

MUSA KANDEH

HEAD CHEF (INTERNATIONAL CUISINE)

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Nationality: Gambian

Date of Birth: 18/10/1973

Marital Status: Single

Passport No.: PC086788

Visa Status: Employment Visa

Address: Dubai – UAE

Core Qualifications

Extremely versatile and able to

go anywhere at any time

Strong sense of customer

confidentiality

Excellent communication skills

Adept at menu preparation

Excellent team player or

independent worker

Dedicated to the culinary arts

Former head chef

LANGUAGES

English

EDUCATION

Collage graduate in the Gambia

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Obtain the job of head Chef at an organization where I can use my excellent culinary skills and make a positive contribution. Adept at prep work cleanup work and maintaining fresh ingredients at all times. Specializes immobile cooking jobs as well as high-traffic restaurants.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Head chef Loop 21Minna Al Arab Rashalkahima1/1/2021/28/3/2022 Head chef at flat White lasella Italian Restaurant Khalifa city (A) Abu Dhabi from 24/7/2020 to 31/12/2020

Preopening culinary head chef at the sweet boutique LLC Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates January (28) 2017 up-to-December 10/2018 Head chef at the Bake Bistro Italian restaurant at the Sadiyad Island Abu Dhabi Public beach 1/2/219 to 20/7/2020

Sous Chef Fourchon Paris in Dubai mall Fine Dining Restaurant UAE 24 July 2010

– to October 31/2012

HEAD CHEF, Fusion Paris, Etihad towers, Abu Dhabi, responsible to make menus food costing, staff training, maintain food safety and hygiene standard, minimize wastages and food spoilages. Meeting with management on weekly basis regarding our daily operations and responsible to communicate with food suppliers for all the raw food and dry food items, delivery and maintain first in first out.

Sous Chef Coco Ocean Resort & Spa – The Gambia 18 Sept 2008 to 15 July 2010

Chef de parties Sheraton Hotel – The Gambia 13 March 2006 to 18 Feb 2008 Cook Supervisor Quality Catering – The Gambia 2005 to 2006 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITY

● Assigned cooking & portioning baking duties to both kitchen staff hot and cold pastry and bakery staff.

● Monitored task performance of the workers in the outlet including stewarding staff

● Developed new recipes, presentation designs and styles.

● Maintained adequate food stock to ensure smooth operations during service time.

● Ensured to maintain dirt free and sanitized cooking area.

● Measured and mixed ingredients in right quantity to form a proper recipe standard in hot and cold kitchen pastry and bakery fruit and sweetener preparation.

● Prepared confectionary in alliance with the orders received from Chef.

● Ensured cleanliness of baking equipment’s, pastry shop and working staff.

● Baked and presented bakery items in hotel and restaurant.

● Provided assistance to Head Chef in cooking and serving different food items.

● Helped marketing and restaurant sales team as needed.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

I have attended all kind of food safer trainings in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and I get their certificates of highest level in food safety and hazard prevention

Regarding experiences and kitchens, I learn are as follows

French Culinary cuisine

Continental Cuisine which is

same as American cuisine

Italian cuisines

Mix Asian cuisine

Arabic cuisine

African cuisine

Hot kitchen and cold kitchen

staff management and team leadership.

food cost and wastage control

creativity and creating new menus plush doing my own food costing to my own menus in a very efficient and accurate manner

FOOD SAFETY AND FOOD HYGINE CERTIFICATES OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. Specific Co Highfields, Middle East and Asia

Certificate of Dubai Issue Date: January 8 -2013 Expiry: January 07 – 2018 CERTIFICATE NUMBER: PIC0931128

ESSENTIAL FOOD SAFETY TRAINING CERTIFICATE, ABU DHABI Certificate reference number E201704-0268

Certificate of Issue Date: APRIL 16 -2017 Expiry: APRIL 12 – 2022

SUPERVISOR CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT STARWOOD UNDER THE Sheraton Five Star Hotel Resort & Spa-Gambia Awarded On 12-02-2007

DECLARATION: THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS TRUE AND RELIABLE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.

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