Deputy General Manager
Exxon Mobil
Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months
Taylors International
Manage the catering, Laundry, accommodation and retail outlet (sundry sales) on the Leif Erikson a semi-submersible.
Direct, Train develop non English speaking Angolan nationals on Hygiene Safety. Good safety awareness was developed, safe practices and being competent and reliable members of staff was later attained.
Clarke Staff Agency-Relief chef/Manager United-Kingdom
Hotels & Restaurants some in good food guide.
Manage the Catering, Laundry, accommodation and staff shop in the main camp, and maintain three additional messes camps ( one 40 km from main camp )
(Hygiene was non-existent in the bush camp. We had a cholera case at the beginning of the project)
Maintenance reports on accommodation & equipment.
Ordering with a four month lead time on supplies (6 months supplies)
Bunker Captain: - clear accommodation, lead residents to Bunker (assembly point) during evacuation procedures.
Operate in difficult working and social conditions.
Tax free salary paid in US dollars including 50% performance bonus, hazard pay, life insurance and health cover.
The camp got hit by U.N.I.T.A while I was there, Around 10 people resigned after that incident.
on a FIPSO (Oil holding ship and a Jack-up rig) offshore In Nigeria, providing catering and accommodation facilities for +- one hundred site personnel.
Ensure the provision of high quality of food and service.
Organize and implement special functions
Commission and Manage an industrial catering unit in Port Elizabeth
Comprising a retail outlet. Industrial line workers dining room, an executive dining room, with retail bar.
Train, motivate, develop and assess personnel for national vocational qualifications (NVQ) Achieved NOSA in the catering section.
A catering unit on a university campus providing food & beverages for around 3000 students per day .Including servicing of a staff dining room and VIP facilities including a bar .Introduced a more varied menu selection. Including. Student friendly. Pizza & Pasta items.
Grafite de Ancuabe SARL Mozambique (1994 )
Training officer /Caterer
A bush construction site. Comprising a basic camp, including bamboo kitchens and a bamboo mess hall .Charcoal stoves, tented accommodation and basic hygiene facilities. (I was fortunate to have accommodation in an Old Bulgarian railway carriage) in the bush camp. Oh the luxuries!
Introduce methods, strategies and systems to bring the restaurant, Industrial workers mess and staff messes to bring costs under control
Responsible for the 50 Seated Odd-Fellows. a la carte restaurant and outside catering services and bar.
The team and I did the first hot meal for the pensioners Christmas day . 300 people up in till then it had always been a cold platter affair.
CDM
Aphorism
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Papua New Guinea (a country of interest to me) I am aware of the high murder rate in Port Moresby)
The Prince of Wales spoke in the local language called Tok Pisin as he introduced himself
Hotel Financial Management 1 Hotel Marketing 1 Hotel Financial Management 11 Hotel Marketing 11 The Industry Manpower Studies Food & Beverage Management Human Nutrition Hotel Management Principles Food Studies Accommodation Studies Liquor Studies * Accommodation Management Tourism UK * * Denotes Distinctions Obtained
courses: City & Guilds 705 General Catering Certificate
2 prizes for cookery Cookery Competition Finalist.