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Aaron J. Davidson

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Carrollton, Texas 75007

adwgv8@r.postjobfree.com

325-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenge with opportunity to enhance current skills and obtain new skills to be utilized for growth in knowledge and responsibility.

EDUCATION

Northlake College Irving, Texas

Associates in Science GPA 3.83

EXPERIENCE

ATICO BARCELONA TAPAS LOUNGE 02/22 – PRESENT

GENERAL MANAGER

• Responsible for successful operation of multi-million-dollar rooftop concept accounting for 77% of food and beverage revenue as well as consult and provide guidance for remaining 23% of food and beverage program.

• Maintain sufficient and balanced staff for successful food and beverage operation including all aspects of the employment life cycle. Ensure current documentation regarding health and safety requirements as well as execute performance evaluations and periodic reviews in a timely manner for 32 direct reports.

• Continuously source employment needs and develop staff to ensure a positive culture with advancement opportunities, enhance employee motivation, and maximize productivity while maintaining acceptable labor costs.

• Mentor bar manager, floor manager, chef de cuisine, as well as sous chef and encourage menu development with product programs that make sense to the business financially and conceptually. Enhance guest perception and experience while increasing profitability.

• Achieve or exceed expected budget goals in sales revenue and profitability while meeting or lowering expected costs of goods.

Sales – 13% above expected revenue

Profitability – 44% above expected profitability

Beer – 4% below target COGS

Wine – 8% below target COGS

Liquor – 5.5% below target COGS

Labor – 4% below target COGS

• Work closely with sales and marketing team to develop strategies to drive current business, create new business, and maintain relevance in competitive market.

• Participate in charity events and act as face of the business during guest speaking appearances and presentations.

• Present the business and new promotional material during chamber meetings and business association meetings.

• Work closely with suppliers for front of house and back of house product to ensure potential supply chain issues are addressed without impact to business operations.

• Continuously audit food and beverage program menus as well as promotional and marketing strategies to ensure maximum profitability and program relevance.

• Adapt and change to an everchanging market as well as forecasting future events to ensure restaurant is in best position possible for continued success. 2

CHEF POINT RESTAURANT AND BAR 12/21 – 02/22

GENERAL MANAGER

• Drive new and return revenue to the restaurant through marketing/promotional strategies, guest relations, and community involvement

• Develop marketing and promotional strategies to drive new prospective revenue streams

• Maintain communication with existing customer database on upcoming events to drive repeat business

• Manage operational expenses of the restaurant including liquor, beer, wine, food, and labor costs

• Audit food and beverage preparation to ensure adherence to recipes and standards

• Audit inventory and food preparation documents to ensure accuracy and best-case product profitability

• Perform quarterly performance reviews of staff and ensure growth and development as well as identify areas for improvement

• Manage financials of multimillion dollar revenue stream utilizing P&L statements, Accounting, and POS software for data analysis

• Effectively manage and run the restaurant floor during business hours to ensure maximum profitability through guest experience and limiting operational expenses

• Socially engage with guests, maintaining guest satisfaction and handling complaints appropriately

• Hire, train, and dismiss team members as appropriate for business needs

• Ensure proper onboarding of new staff members and payroll compliance

• Ensure team complies with company policies and procedures and retrain as needed

• Maintain safety and food quality standards

• Scheduling

• Order food, liquor, beer, wine, and supplies to ensure product availability while maintaining proper inventory pars

CHEF POINT RESTAURANT AND BAR 09/21 – 12/21

ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER

• Assist in driving new and return revenue to the restaurant

• Re-launch happy hour program to ensure relevance in competitive market

• Develop marketing and promotional strategies to drive new prospective revenue streams

• Maintain communication with existing customer database on upcoming events to drive repeat business

• Manage operational expenses of the restaurant including liquor, beer, wine, food, and labor costs

• Effectively manage and run the restaurant floor during business hours to ensure maximum profitability through guest experience and limiting operational expenses

• Socially engage with guests, keeping guest satisfaction and handling complaints appropriately

• Hiring and training team members

• Ensure proper onboarding of new staff members and payroll compliance

• Ensure team complies with company policies and procedures and retrain as needed

• Maintain safety and food quality standards

• Scheduling

• Ordering food, liquor, beer, wine, and supplies to ensure product availability while maintaining proper inventory pars

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GENGHIS GRILL/MONGOLIAN CONCEPTS 07/21 – 09/21

ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER

• Directly assist the General Manger in meeting or exceed established sales, revenue, and profitability

• Directly assist the General Manger to ensure the financial integrity of all P&L statements by adhering to systems that properly track expenses and revenues that are categorized, coded, and posted through control processes

• Assist in the management of monthly and annual sales objectives for the restaurant

• Ensure all revenues, cash, or credit are properly deposited and accounted for and are secured into the Company's operating bank account

• Manage internal/external communications in a timely and effective manner

• Communicate restaurant objectives in meetings and as required, present initiatives and objectives by speaking and guiding the team to meet established objectives

• Make sure all standard operating procedures are being always followed

• Lead shift effectively and develop Operations Managers and Managers in Training to do the same

• Perform the duties and responsibilities of all positions at the restaurant, be proficient in performing such duties, as well as train and develop both managers and hourly teammates

• Communicate with managers, hourly teammates, and guests, providing positive feedback and promoting a positive image of the restaurant and good teammate morale

• Ensures maintenance of a safe and harassment free workplace

• Collaborate directly with vendors to ensure that the restaurant equipment is kept in satisfactory working order maintaining the highest degree of usability and cleanliness

• Manage internal/external communications in a timely and effective manner

• Responsible for end of week financial reporting and explanations of actual vs. Projections

• Regularly interviews applicants for employment, assisting in making hiring decisions S’KRATCH 06/20 – 06/21

OWNER/GENERAL MANAGER

• Support all aspects of day-to-day operations of a full-service bar and grill.

• Hire, fire, and effectively manage staff to ensure a safe and responsible work environment.

• Effectively maintain books for business as well as up to date metrics on bar and grill including profit and loss, labor cost, liquor cost, food cost and inventory.

• Ensure bar and grill maintained high quality standard regarding city, state, and federal requirements.

• File state taxes in accordance with state regulations to ensure bar and grill remained in compliance. GALVESTON SEAFOOD COMPANY 02/20 – 06/20

EXCECUTIVE CHEF/GENERAL MANAGER

• Support all aspects of day-to-day operations of a full-service restaurant.

• Main objective was to consult and assist successful opening of restaurant for new restaurateurs.

• Hire, fire, and effectively manage staff to ensure a safe and responsible work environment.

• Effectively communicate with owners providing up to date metrics on restaurant including profit and loss, labor cost, food cost, and inventory.

• Ensure restaurant maintained high quality standard regarding city, state, and federal requirements.

• File state taxes in accordance with state regulations to ensure restaurant remained in compliance. HOOKS BAR AND GRILL 04/18 – 02/20

OWNER/GENERAL MANAGER

• Support all aspects of day-to-day operations of a full-service bar and grill.

• Hire, fire, and effectively manage staff to ensure a safe and responsible work environment.

• Effectively maintain books for business as well as up to date metrics on bar and grill including profit and loss, labor cost, liquor cost, food cost and inventory.

• Ensure bar and grill maintained high quality standard regarding city, state, and federal requirements.

• File state taxes in accordance with state regulations to ensure bar and grill remained in compliance. 4

HEMMINGWAYS 10/16 – 04/18

GENERAL MANAGER

• Support all aspects of day-to-day operations of a full-service bar.

• Hire, fire, and effectively manage staff to ensure a safe and responsible work environment.

• Effectively communicate with owners providing up to date metrics on bar including profit and loss, labor cost, liquor cost, and inventory.

• Ensure bar maintained high quality standard regarding city, state, and federal requirements.

• File state taxes in accordance with state regulations to ensure bar remained in compliance. GAP IN EMPLOYMENT 06/14 – 10/16

TIME TAKEN TO SUPPORT AND TAKE CARE OF A DEAR FRIEND FIGHTING CANCER

• After the project with T2 Biosystems was complete and the instrument successfully completed the clinical trial, I took a period off work to help a friend in need I had met at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas who had no other support system around her. T2 BIOSYSTEMS 07/13 – 06/14

FIELD ENGINEER (Temp Assignment thru NEED Personnel)

• Support a complex medical device which uses polymerase chain reaction and molecular magnetic resonance technology for direct detection through clinical trial.

• Effectively manage and maintain a vital clinical trial site ensuring forecast completion date is met.

• Effectively communicate with laboratory and medical staff to ensure adherence to clinical trial protocol.

• Maintain constant communication with headquarters regarding results and issues during clinical trial.

• Maintain inventory and organization needed for a successful operation of a clinical trial site. ALTERNATIVE BIOMEDICAL SOLUTIONS 01/12 – 06/13

FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER

• Support the refurbishment and redistribution of Olympus AU 400, 640, 2700, and 5400 clinical chemistry platforms.

• Extensive travel supporting customer needs for support, installation, and validation of Olympus platforms.

• Support installation and validation of Mindray BS-200 clinical chemistry platform.

• Maintain constant facial and verbal professional communication regarding support to instrumentation. QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER

• Develop a quality system which complies with the ISO 9001:2008 standard.

• Evolve certified quality system towards ISO 14385 and FDA 521 compliance.

• Manage document control, non-conformance, and complaint handling.

• Perform consistent internal audits to ensure compliance to quality system.

• Communicate with upper management and drive corrective and preventive actions to maintain compliance to quality system and strive for improvement.

• Continuously monitor documentation supporting quality system and revise when needed and justified. ABBOTT LABORATORIES 04/10 – 03/11

SOFTWARE VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION ENGINEER

• Design and execute software validation and verification protocols for web-based application monitoring blood analyzers worldwide.

• Design and execute validation and verification protocols for release of assay/system troubleshooting applications.

• Work extensively with software development team to debug software applications

• Track software defects using TeamTrack defect tracking application. 5

ABBOTT LABORATORIES 02/05 – 04/2010

SYSTEM INTEGRATION R & D ENGINEER

• Perform reagent cross-contamination testing on OEM assays to ensure successful launch meeting customer needs and requirements.

• Maintenance of analyzers, reagent inventory, and package insert review of application parameters, load list creation, troubleshooting analyzers and reagent issues, data reduction, protocol, and data summary composition.

• Maintain an effective line of communication with assay development, statistics, and marketing team. Supervise and train contract employees on execution of protocols and system integration tasks.

• Perform verification testing on the assay disks for AEROSET and Architect cSystems to support the successful launch of the assay disk.

• Perform feasibility testing for new assays to include precision, LOD, LOQ and linearity. Comprehensive knowledge of the Aeroset and the cSystems analyzers. o Identified error in dummy aspiration for samples during calibration prior to c16000 launch o Identified software differences between c8000 and c16000 regarding on-board diluent impact to Smart Wash execution.

• Work closely with TPD group to maintain an effective line of communication with management concerning open complaints. Effectively investigated and closed complaints in a timely manner. o Proficiency in CAPA system.

o Perform Risk Evaluation and Global Assessment for Failure Investigation regarding reagent- cross-contamination complaints.

o Work closely with Product Quality, Medical Affairs, and R & D organizations through CAPA process.

o Participated in MRIA and PRIA meetings for complaint investigation.

• Travel to OEM vendor sites when needed to perform assay troubleshooting o Perform lot release cross-contamination testing at OEM vendor site preventing product quality hold.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Extensive knowledge in food and beverage industry operations and commitment to excellence.

• Meets aggressive timeline and sales goals.

• TABC and Texas Food Manager Certifications.

• Efficient in preparation and analysis Profit and Loss statements.

• Efficient in preparation in monthly and annual budgets and sales goals as well as setting aggressive but achievable expectations.

• Extreme focus on attendance and punctuality

• Ability to utilize knowledge in six sigma problem solving techniques to analyze and identify root cause issues.

• Able to apply Corrective and Preventive Action measures to limit and/or eliminate potential reoccurring issues.

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