About me

Education

Anglia Ruskin University 2023 - present

bSC Computer Games Programming

Cambridge Regional College 2011 - 2013

Level 2 Diploma in professional cookery

Level 2 certificate in Food and Beverage Service

Linton Village College 2007-2011

5 A* - C grades across Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry

Employment

F&B Operations Support Manager, Kitchen Manager

The Light Cinema 2018 - 2023

Chef work

Rose & Crown Carvery, Kitchen Assistant, 2011 - 2013

Pizza Hut, chef, team leader, 2013 - 2018

Servest Catering, line chef, kitchen supervisor 2015 - 2016

The Light Cinema, supervisor, 2016 - 2018

Prezzo, chef 2023 - 2024

Everyman Media, sous chef - 2024 - present

Major Projects

New Kitchen Opens

Opening of 7 kitchens across the country - training chefs, maintaining safety compliance, running day to day operations,

Data Analysis

Forecasting Tool - Created a tool by analysing sales data to forecast sales based on presales, bespoke to each of the sites. This allowed sites to manage preparation levels to mitigate food waste increasing profitability.

Accruals Worksheet - Created a dynamic worksheet which oversees how many unprocessed invoices each site had, this allowed greater management of sites on this process, reduced the outstanding accruals which allowed us to claim VAT back which increased the cash availability to the company

Data Migration

Completed a large data migration for the change of a POS system, moving from a cinema style POS to a Food and Beverage tailored system, manually migrating over 2000 recipes and ingredients

Supply Chain Management and Menu Engineering

Management of the company inventory system and processes.

Tracked changes to cost of ingredients so performing of quarterly menu pricing could preserve profit margins, and engineering of offering to provide better value for guests while maintaining margins.

Maintaining relationships with suppliers

First point of contact for process advice to sites using the inventory system.

Management of sites of stock result performances, suggesting controls to implement to combat shrinkage.