Michael Garcia

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Fort Bragg. CA

707-***-****

Objective: Obtain a long term position that will utilize and expand on skills I have gained while in the Hotel and restaurant services. My aim is to increase my knowledge and opportunities for professional growth. Become an asset to restaurant I work for and increase sales and profit for the house.

Experience: Mendocino Hotel Mendocino, ca.

Server,bartender 11/06 to currently employed

wait tables during brunch and afternoon shifts in garden cafe and bar.

wait tables in lobby as cocktail and bistro server.

Bartend, make cocktails serve dinner, Have knowledge of local wines.

Take both food, wine, and cocktail orders. expedite them and serve them to guests.

Serve fine dinning in the victorian Dining room.

County of Mendocino Mental Health Fort Bragg, CA. 95437

Driver 8/1/06 to 3/09

Drive mental health clients to hospitals in the Bay Area.

Sit in emergency room with client while waiting for hospital aproval.

Fill in at drop in center in Fort Bragg as counselor.

Brewery Gulch Inn mendocino, ca

AM Server 10/1/07 to 05/1/08

Wait tables for guests dining room area.

Set tables, take breakfast orders, and serve food.

Bus tables, breakdown dining room, and do all dishes in kitchen.

Shandell Construction Albion Ca

Laboror 1/15/07 to 8/1/07

Tear out roads and get them to grade. Lay new asphalt.

extensive logging, choker setting, and limbing and bucking trees.

dig ditches and put in drains along roads.

repair water mains and sewer pipes.

Department of Rehabilitation Fort Bragg, CA. 95437

Job Developer 8/15/06 to 12/1/06

Assist disabled clients find permenant employment.

Drive clents to interviews.

Help develop resumes.

Give job counseling and deternine best possible strategy for finding jobs.

Coast Community Center Fort Bragg, Ca. 95437

Casemanager Intern/Intake Worker AUG/05 to MAY/06

Counseled and aided people requiring assistance dealing with alcohol and drug abuse.

Executed daily operations of intake paperwork and interviews, weekly check ins with clients.

Interviewed clients, reviewed records and conferred with other professionals to evaluate condition of client.

Formulated program for rehabilitation using knowledge of drug and alcohol abuse problems, counseling and treatment techniques.

Was instrumental in aiding clients with staying clean and sober and finding permanent housing.

Counseled clients individually and in group sessions to assist client in overcoming alcohol and drug dependency.

Trained new interns in intake process.

Referred client to other support services such as medical evaluation, treatment, social services and employment services.

Monitored condition of client to evaluate success of therapy and adapted treatment as needed.

Prepared and maintained reports and case histories.

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Thermoscope Energy Eng. S. San Francisco, Ca. 94080

Air Balance Tech. Dec./89 to June/96

Measuring and balancing commercial air conditioning systems. Traveling and usage of computers to accurately balance AC systems. Working with General contractors and other HVAC Tech to complete job specifications. Reading blue prints and having basic knowledge of functions of commercial AC units.

Education: Palm Springs High School Palm Springs, Ca. 94822

General Education Diploma 1989

College of the Redwoods at Mendocino Coast Fort Bragg, Ca. 95437

Associates Social Science 2006

College of the Redwoods at Mendocino Coast Fort Bragg, Ca. 95437

Certificate in Addiction Studies 2006

Santa Rosa Bartending school Santa Rosa

Certificate 11/09

Community: Volunteer Food Bank :

Prepare food for people in need.

Check people off on computer as they go through

the line.

Deliver pallets of food to other destinations in Mendocino County.

Senior Center:

Bus tables for Senior citizens durintheirer lunch

Jan 05-May 05

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