LEAD CAKER at Paris Baguette (2025-09 – Present)
- Decorate and assemble cakes and desserts to recipe and visual brand standards.
- Prepare creams, fillings, icings, and toppings from scratch or components.
- Use elegant piping and whimsical designs to make every occasion memorable.
- Manage daily production plans and workflows to meet café demand.
- Ensure cake displays are organized and visually appealing to enhance the guest experience.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and food-safe decorating station.
- Monitor product quality and consistency because details matter.
- Support special orders and guest customization needs when applicable.
- Help train new Cake Team Members in decoration techniques and café procedures.
- Complete waste logs, production sheets, or prep reports as required.
- Receive, stock, and organize ingredients and supplies efficiently.
- Adapt to other bakery tasks as needed because we are all one team.
LEAD QUALITY TECHNICIAN at Schrey and Sons Mold Inc. (2022-05 – 2025-09)
Acting Quality Supervisor and leading Assembly in Wax Department.
- Prepare needed tools and materials for Wax department.
- Make sure hitting the throughput on a daily basis.
- Do inventory for production tools and materials.
- Direct workers engaged in product measurement, inspection, and testing activities to ensure quality control and reliability.
- Calibrate, validate, or maintain equipments.
- Program and set up CMM to accurately inspect products to meet tolerances and specifications.
- Implement methods and procedures for disposition of discrepant material and defective or damaged parts.
- Record or oversee recording of information to ensure currency of engineering drawings and documentation of production problems.
- Review production schedules, engineering specifications, orders, and related information to obtain knowledge of manufacturing methods, procedures, and activities.
- Evaluate precision and accuracy of production and testing equipment and engineering drawings to formulate corrective action plan.
- Supply quality control data necessary for regulatory submissions.
- Manage Management Review and AS9100 audits.
- Write or revise standard quality control operating procedures.
- Monitor development of new products to help identify possible problems for mass production.
- Audit and inspect subcontractor facilities including external laboratories.
- Generate and maintain QMS.
ASSISTANT BAKERY MANAGER at Sprouts (2019-01 – 2019-12)
Plans, organizes and directs day-to-day operations of the Bakery Department, exercising independent judgment and discretion.
- Conduct daily inspections of all Bakery department sections and initiate corrective measures to ensure compliance with product quality, code date standards, sanitation, safety and security requirements.
- Oversee and assist with all bakery department duties such as: proofing, baking, decorating, slicing and packaging fresh bakery products.
- Implement effective promotional and seasonal displays.
- Prevent shrink and control expenses.
- Accurately complete, maintain and monitor daily log sheet, purchase report, and sales and labor and other required paperwork and logs.
- Maintain records on ad item movement.
- Order, check, receive and control inventory to ensure adequate product quantity, quality and freshness and maintain inventory levels according to Division directives.
- Stock and rotate product.
- Maintain and organize bakery department cooler and freezer.
- Conduct periodic inventories, process administrative paperwork and maintain accurate department records.
- Ensure that bakery product quality, baking and decorating standards are met.
- Ensure proper merchandising of product by understanding and implementing schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signing procedures and monitoring product flow.
- Comply with retail labeling laws, federal and state regulations and Company policies.
- Assist customers by taking and filling special orders.
- Make product suggestions and engage in suggestive selling.
- Make intercom announcements.
- Ensure cleanliness and sanitation of sales floor and work area, freezer and cooler, equipment, and retail cases.
- Handle customer relations.
- Engage in suggestive selling and other sales techniques.
- Monitor daily log sheet, purchase report and sales and labor report.
- Attend required training and sales meetings.
- Implement emergency procedures in the event of equipment and computer software malfunctions.
Cake decorator at Goldilucks Bakery (2001-04 – 2009-06)
- Design and decorate cakes in different styles.
- Supervise other team members.
- Maintain cleanliness of the workstation.
- Fulfill customer requests and special orders like wedding cakes on time.
- Determine cake prices as per the design requirements.
- Suggest suitable cake designs and decoration options.
- Maintain an inventory of cake decorating items and ingredients.
- Assist the Bakery Manager with pastry decorations and cake fillings.
- Ensure artistic and appealing cake designs.
- Undertake customized cake orders.
- Check the shelf life of cake decoration products, colors, and accessories.
- Use decorating and modeling techniques and tools for creating intricate designs.
- Check and place decoration product reorders with suppliers and vendors.
