KEITH KOWALCZYK ph. ***/***-****

**** ******** ***. #***, *********, CA 90046 oqxhhn@r.postjobfree.com

Nightclub/Restaurant Manager with broad experience in the hospitality industry, including:

• Management • Bartending • Serving

EXPERIENCE:

General Manager THE SHOW, Pasadena, CA (2010 – 2011)

• Oversaw the turnover of the club through an ownership transition

Bar Manager/Bartender RED LION TAVERN, Los Angeles, CA (2008 – 2010)

• Responsible for liquor ordering, inventory & bookkeeping.

• Additionally, managed the floor and worked bar shifts.

Manager PLEASURES, Pasadena, CA (2006 – 2008)

• Involved in the take-over of an existing club from previous management/ownership.

• Performed all functions of running an establishment grossing several million/year: from HR & scheduling, to inventory & ordering, to running the floor.

General Manager/ FANTASY ISLAND, Los Angeles, CA (2000 – 2006)

Manager/Bartender

• Responsible for every aspect of the operation of an establishment grossing approximately $5M/year.

• HR, scheduling, payroll, purchasing, inventory, city compliance, and running the floor – there wasn’t an aspect of the operation I did not perform.

• Started at the door and behind the bar, began managing, and for my last two years was the GM

Bartender YAMASHIRO, Hollywood, CA (1994 – 1999)

• Worked the busy main bar, along with working the restaurant bar and the function bars for large wedding, functions, and events.

• Additionally, filled in waiting tables for weddings and other large functions.

Bartender AHIRUNAGAYA, Gifu & Kagoshima, Japan (1993)

Bartender/Waiter SHERATON HOTEL, Lowell, Massachusetts (1991 – 1992)

Bartender/Waiter ANDOVER COUNTRY CLUB, Andover, Massachusetts (1986 – 1992)

Other experience FREELANCE WRITER/EDITOR, Los Angeles, CA (1995 – Present)

• Editor-in-chief for Twistory Studios

• Marketing, Screenplay, TV, Video Game, Fiction, and Copywriting

• Clients included Steamroller Pictures, Area Zero Productions, What Magazine, Irma’s Place Productions, P.I.G. Studios, Bulldog Pictures, Eagle Eye Pictures Carroll Ott Word, Inc.

EDUCATION:

• MFA, Master of Professional Writing Program, USC

• BA, Economics, University of Massachusetts/Amherst

LANGUAGES:

• Japanese

References available upon request

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