_______________________________________________________________ Eric L. Rose Permanent Address: 1801 NW 31 Terrace, Gainesville, FL 32605 Home Phone: 352.374.6951 Cell Phone: 805.443.9131 E-mail Address: erose@calpoly.edu ** http://www.calpoly.edu/~erose _________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach, CA Graduated 6/68 Culinary Apprenticeship, Los Angeles, CA 7/71 to 10/73 Work Experience Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA 7/71 to 10/75 Apprentice Chef and Saucier . Spent six months on each station in the kitchen, including the bakery . Instructed by the Executive Chef in sanitation and kitchen organization . Worked in three restaurants within the hotel was saucier in the gourmet restaurant for one month . After graduation was night saucier in the main kitchen Vieux Chateau Restaurant, Hermosa Beach, CA 10/75 to 2/76 Executive Chef . Ordered and prepared food for dining room seating approximately forty five . Maintained high degree of sanitation . Ran a sustained food cost of 35% Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo, CA 6/76 to 9/77 Prep Cook and Sauce Cook . Prepared salads and hot items for banquets and the coffee shop Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tenn. 10/77 to 6/78 Sous Chef . Was part of the kitchen brigade that opened this 800 room hotel . Oversaw preparation and service of large banquets . Opened and was Sous Chef for coffee shop . Ordered products and scheduled staff Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA 7/78 to 7/79 Sous Chef . In charge of two restaurant kitchens . Scheduled staff ordered products maintained quality standards of this 5 star hotel Arroyo Lumber, Grover Beach, CA 9/79 to 1/80 Carpenters Apprentice . Worked with head carpenter learning all facets of construction The Electric Company, Arroyo Grande, CA 1/80 to 4/80 Counter Clerk and Warehouseman . Waited on customers stocked warehouse California Polytechnic State University 5/80 to 3/2001 Campus Dining, San Luis Obispo, CA (Retired) Catering Chef . Order and prepare food for all catered events . Organize and schedule student employees . Maintain a computerized list of available student help . Manage events ranging from small gourmet meals to barbecues for upwards of 2000 . Cost menus and maintain control over labor and food cost . Create new recipes and menus . Create and maintain a data base of all recipes Miner's Ace Hardware 3/01 to 3/04 Grover Beach, CA Assistant Manager . Maintained keys to open and close store . Counted registers and safe . Backed up computer systems . Maintained security VCR tapes . "Provided service that lay between excellent and legendary" . Operated POS registers . Setup merchandise displays . Picked, Re-keyd and mastered locks, cut keys Zell's Ace Hardware 5/04 to Present Gainesville, FL Clerk, Locksmith Duties . Customer service . Help with customers projects . Set Up merchandise displays . Cut keys, pick locks, re-key and master locks . Fill propane cylinders HONORS AND ACTIVITIES Certification Chair ACF Central Coast Chefs Association . Member of American Culinary Federation since 1978 . Founding president and past chair of the board of the ACF-C.C.C.A. . Organized local "Afternoon of Epicurean Delights" food and wine sampling fundraiser . ACF "Certified Working Chef" since 10/91 . Recipient of ACF Chapter Chef of the Year award for 1994 medallion #758 . NAFEM/97 Chef Finalist and recipient of ACF Culinary Diploma in first annual Culinary Contest in New Orleans, LA . Culinary Judge for Gilroy Garlic Festival 2000 and 2001 "Great Garlic Cook-Off" State of California Dept. of Industrial Relations Certificate of Completion of Culinary Apprenticeship A.H.M.A Certificate of Completion Basic Sanitation w/Honors Certificate of Completion ServeSafe Food Protection Manager Certification Course State of Florida Bureau of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Inspections Certificate of Training in Safe Propane Dispensing Unit Operations Computer Experience . Successfully completed CSC-110 course . Experience with Windows 3.x and `95-`98 and XP; WordPerfect; MSWord; Lotus 1-2-3; Excel; Unix; Netscape Communicator 4.x-7.1; Internet Explorer 6.0; MS Outlook; SecureNet Term 5.4.3.1; Thunderbird Email Program; Mozilla Firefox . Attended 10 hour course of Internet basics . Created and maintain a web page Updated 07/31/05