Experienced GM and bartender
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Experienced GM and bartender with experience in fast paced and high-volume bars, cellar trained, floor trained, back of house.
Bar Manager - Mber - City
(2024-01 - 2026-02)
High end Pan-Asian restaurant in the heart of the City, in which I was responsible for setting a new stock take system, save the company money, design seasonal cocktail menu's and food menus, train and develop staff, trainings new contracts with spirit companies as well as grow the business in quieter times.
General Manager - The Bootlegger - City
(2023-02 - 2023-09)
Nice busy speakeasy bar in the city in which I was tasked with everything from rotas, P&L, training menu development, orders, hiring and new contracts. I was very hands on and still am designing the concept for the next projects.
Bar Supervisor - The Sky Garden (Rhubarb Hospitality) - London
(2022-07 - 2023-04)
Working for Rhubarb Hospitality at Sky Garden I worked events and running shifts and prep daily after starting as a bartender. I helped organise and run the bars for massive corporate events and one of special events. I was also tasked with training staff and creating menus and drinks for events and seasonal cocktail menus. I also helped them open up and cocktail bar, restaurant café on the first floor.
Bartender - Hawksmoor Air Street - London
(2022-01 - 2022-07)
Very busy high-Volume restaurant based in the heart of London. A mixture of roles from Bartending both dispense and the bar, floor tending both the restaurant and bar, bar backing, learning to be as efficient as possible and helping younger bartenders and bartenders learn.
Bartender and Shift Leader - London Cocktail Club - London (Clapham and other sites)
(2020-10 - 2021-11)
High Volume cocktail bar based all around London, I was mainly based in their Clapham branch but worked in a lot of their other sites. Passed all of my spec tests and trained a lot of newcomers as well as shift leading and opening, closing and cash up's. Helped design their new menu and their flavour of the month drinks as well as hitting targets, stock taking, deliveries and general day to day management. Passed all of my tests, induction, first aid and food safety certificates.
General Manager - Tequila Mockingbird - Clapham Junction
(2019-11 - 2020-09)
High volume discount cocktail bar in Clapham Junction. Started as Assistant General Manager then moved up to GM, also managed some of their other bars and assisted new bar openings. Responsible for training, management and every day running of the venue as well as setting targets, stock taking and ordering.
Assistant General Manager - Burlock Rum Room - Marylebone
(2018-02 - 2019-08)
Rum room in Marylebone that is a cocktail bar and turns into a late-night cocktail bar on the weekends. I started out as a bartender then moved my up into various management positions. My responsibilities included hiring, training, ordering, holding classes about Rum, liaising with HR and security. I did pretty much everything and anything that needed to be done. Passed first aid, health and safety and various other courses while I was working for them.
General Manager - The Hill Station - Tooting Broadway
(2016-11 - 2017-11)
I opened, ran and designed the cocktail menu for this small cocktail bar in a market. I was involved with day to and all kinds of marketing for the bar. Bookings, promotions, specials. This was all hands on as it was mostly a one-man job. Almost everything that was involved to make this bar from its inception to day to running was mostly handled by me. This bar was also owned by the same people who owned The Imperial Durbar and Guerrilla bar.
Bartender - Cocktail Embassy - Crystal Palace
(2016-08 - 2016-11)
I was responsible for carrying out daily tasks and holding up the high standard of service expected by the customers.
General Manager - Guerrilla Bar & The Imperial Durbar - Tooting Broadway and Tooting Bec
(2016-02 - 2016-08)
Started as an assistant general manager then moved up to general manager at The Imperial Durbar, I was then promoted within the same company as The Imperial Durbar to run their new bar as well as do some management shifts in their sister bar called La Cabina in Shoreditch. Working on profits and gp's. Organising events for the bar, including live music showcases, special invite only shows with big named musicians and dj's.
Organizing and making rotas for the bar staff and Dj's. Ordering, bringing in new products, helping push events on social media, posters and flyers. I still help as an events manager for the company.
Bar Manager - The Craft Cocktail Company - Bethnal Green
(2015-09 - 2016-01)
Day to day running of the bar, batching bottled cocktails, making deals with companies to sell and promote our products, ordering, making record sales, making events for Halloween, Christmas and new year's, creating drinks and talking to spirit reps about all kinds of events.
General Manager - Simmons Bar - Camden
(2015-02 - 2015-09)
Day to day running of the bar, ordering, training, pos programming, making the place busier, and generally making the place awesome.
Head Bartender - The Loft - Clapham High Street
(2014-06 - 2015-02)
Duties included day to day running training and preparing the Mise en place for a bar that demanded a lot of preparation, as we specialized in making home-made spirits and syrups amongst other things. I was in charge of stock taking, stock controlling, ordering and training of staff and hiring.
MCSA, MCSE and MCDB - Microsoft systems and programming - London School of Computing
A-level and GNVQ Certificate - English and I.T - Richmond Upon Thames College
GCSEs - General Education - Carshalton High School for Boys
Tiga approved - Computer games designer - Tiga
