KEITH KOWALCZYK ph. ***/***-****
**** ******** ***. #***, *********, CA 90046 **************@*****.***
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