About Mark

This was a rigorous and fast-paced certificate course teaching the practical, technical skills needed to build robust web applications. Throughout the course, I have gained proficiency in numerous marketable technologies including JavaScript, NodeJS, SQL, MongoDB, and React.
Additionally, I finished by graduating at the top of my class with an impressive professional portfolio and multiple dynamic projects, some of which are actively being applied to businesses and clients today.

• Led a diverse team of hospitality professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and employee engagement.
• Implemented advanced inventory and accounting systems to efficiently manage all beverage operations, ensuring cost-effectiveness with a consistent cost of goods sold maintained at or below 28%.
• Collaborated closely with culinary experts, sales executives, clients, and team members to curate bespoke private dining experiences including weddings, corporate meetings, celebrity events, and large-scale buyouts.
• Established a comprehensive education program, facilitating vendor-led presentations and conducting tailored beverage classes to elevate the knowledge base of hotel staff.
• Surpassed key performance indicators, achieving remarkable top-line revenue growth, stringent cost control targets, notable increases in positive internal and external customer feedback.

• Manage and oversee beverage purchasing and receiving for multiple independently run departments and outlets
• Maintain low cost of goods sold at or below 22%
• Organize promotional events including winemaker dinners, cocktail paired dinners, industry tastings, and fundraisers
• Collaborate with chefs, sales managers, clients, and staff to organize private dining functions including weddings, business meetings, celebrity celebrations, and large format buyouts
• Design education program, coordinate vendor led presentations, and teach beverage classes for hotel staff

• Lead the opening team for a casual fine dining, farm-to-table, woodfire grill concept with a focus on authentic Argentine flavors and in-house whole animal butchery
• Build a model for employee relations including hiring protocols, training programs, accountability systems and employee engagement incentives
• Consult with the Executive Chef and Chef de Cuisine to craft seasonally changing, locally sourced menus for the restaurant, special event and in-room dining including price to cost analysis, menu content, design layout, marketing opportunities, and brand integration
• Meet and exceed performance goals in top line revenue growth, cost control measures, guest volume increases, and positive consumer review both external and internal
• Work with the Director of Sales and Marketing to identify potential opportunities for in-person marketing and local relationship building to increase our market presence

• Run a music venue/casual fine dining establishment with over $20 million in annual revenue
• Manage multiple salaried teams including FOH, BOH, Music Production, Marketing, and Booking
• Extensive knowledge of financials including P&L, general ledger, payroll systems, accounts payable
• Beat budget and IBO every quarter for 2.5 years and beating prior year by 8.9% in the first year
• Worked on creating an environment of success and opportunity through extensive training, creating staff ownership, and promoting from within which helped bring an annual turnover rate of nearly 68% down to 1.7%