COOK

Posted on: 2007-02-13

JJ&J’S SOUTHERN FOOD RESTAURANT, Jamaica, NY 04/06-Present COOK: Receive orders from customer and cooks foods requiring short preparation time, according to customer requirements. Prepares, seasons, and cooks, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other food for consumption in eating establishment or to take out. Bakes, roasts, broils, and steams meats, fish, vegetables, and other foods. Adds seasoning to foods during mixing or cooking, according to personal judgment and experience. Observes and tests foods being cooked by tasting, smelling, and piercing with fork to determine that it is cooked. Keep work area clean at all times. HOMEMAKER,Jamaica,NY 07/05-06/06 Catered food and cakes and pies for local churches, funerals and friends. Decorated birthday cakes for local birthday parties and holiday cakes. MAKE MY CAKE BAKERY, New York, NY 03/05-07/05 CAKE DECORATOR: Sculpted cakes to create various forms to be iced. Mixed icing with food color to create color variations. Filled cakes with icing or fruit fillings. Iced and decorated cakes with flowers made from icing, edible pictures, fresh fruit, novelty picks and ribbons. Writing on cakes for any and all occasions. Used professional and commercial equipment. HOMEMAKER, Jamaica, NY 07/03-03/05 Catered food and cakes and pies for local churches, funerals and friends. Decorated birthday cakes for local birthday parties and holiday cakes. LONG ISLAND RAILROAD, Jamaica, NY 12/93-07/03 MAIL AND RIDE CLERK: Assisted customers with monthly accounts. Set up new accounts and cancelled lost or stolen tickets. Also delivered checks for deposit at bank for new and existing account. Heavy phone contact with customers and computer usage. WAREHOUSE PERSON: Performed all aspects of the shipping and receiving department. Counted, sorted and stored all incoming train and buildings material, inventory maintenance, picked and packed orders to be delivered to different areas of the entire railroad system. Assisted in loading and unloading of material skids from all delivery, UPS and FED-EX trucks. STATION APPEARANCE MAINTAINER: Performed cleaning duties at various railroad stations and ticket booths. Maintained high traffic areas such as platforms, restrooms and waiting areas. Heavy office cleaning, carpet shampooing, buffing, stripping and waxing. Usage of industrial cleaning agents. Inventory of main storage room. Used industrial cleaning machines. Also set up and broke down conference rooms for classes, meetings and conventions. ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, New York, NY 07/92-12/93 MAILROOM CLERK: Sorted, delivered and picked up mail from various departments of the publishing company. Processed UPS and foreign mail deliveries and all outgoing mail. EDUCATION: YOUNG ADULT LEARNING ACADEMY, New York, NY 08/89-06/90 GED Diploma References furnished upon request.