Syed Afaque Hussain
JW Marriott Aerocity, New Delhi, Guest Service Associate- F&B
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On the job
Location
United Arab Emirates, Dubai
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Personal Advantage
• Having gained more than 9 years of experience in various progressive roles in Food & Beverage within the luxury hotel segment, my next career objective is to secure the position of Assistant Banquet/Assistant Restaurant Manager for a luxury hotel. • A deep passion for restaurant/banqueting and events, a department and career path that i would like to continue to pursue that will provide me with the opportunity to be challenged and enhance my leadership skills. • Highly motivated, energetic, and pro-active individual who thrives under pressure to meet and address a variety of deadlines. • A strong team player with excellent communication and organizational skills who is always eager to take on additional responsibilities and overcome challenging assignments.
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Experience
Guest Service Associate- F&B
2013-02 - 2016-01
JW Marriott Aerocity, New Delhi Assistant
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Achievements: - • Nominated as the “Best Employee Of The Month” for April, 2014 in JW Marriott Aerocity, New Delhi and received a letter of appreciation from the General Manager “Balan Paravantavida” for the exemplary services. • Star of the month for February, 2014 and October, 2014
Food & Beverage Supervisor
2016-01 - 2020-06
Fairmont The Palm, Dubai Supervisor
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Duties &Responsibilities: - • Acting as a restaurant in-charge for “FREVO” restaurant in absence of the restaurant manager and always relieving the restaurant manager on his days off. • Contributing to monthly payroll and updating the system accordingly. • Preparing team schedules, training plans, daily briefings and weekly departmental meetings. • Preparing and executing bills and generating reports. • Ensuring the upkeep of all restaurant facilities and preparing snag-lists. • Maintaining and updating colleague performance logs. • Being a certified trainer as well as the departmental trainer, perform trainer tasks & conduct staff training as assigned by the outlet manager. • Good Knowledge of Micros, Opera, Birchstreet. Achievements: - • Successfully Completed “Supervisory Skills Training Program”. • Successfully Completed “Train The Trainers Program”. • Star of the month for May, 2017. • Played a key role in obtaining a score of 95% for the outlet in Colleague Engagement Survey.
Restaurant & Banquet Team Leader/Supervisor
2021-12 -
Burj Al Arab, Dubai Supervisor
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Duties &Responsibilities: - Restaurant- Aliwan (Arabic Restaurant) • Preparing and executing bills and generating reports. • Ensuring the upkeep of all restaurant facilities and preparing snag-lists. • Maintaining and updating colleague performance logs. • Conduct staff training as assigned by the outlet manager. • Good Knowledge of Micros, Opera, Birchstreet. • Always helping the other food & beverage outlets during their busy operations especially the All Day Dining Restaurant in breakfast. • Helping to minimize waste, breakages and mishandling of supplies and equipment. • Ensuring all HACCP procedures all followed all the times. • Conducts monthly inventory checks on all operating equipment and supplies. Banquet:- • Supervising over 2,000 square meters of event space with 1 ballroom, 3 meeting rooms and an open garden area. • Ensuring that hotel brand standards and SOP's are consistently implemented. • Forecasting, ordering and controlling casual labor costs according to the level of business. • Conducts monthly inventory checks on all operating equipment and supplies. • Preparing team schedules, training plans, daily briefings and weekly departmental meetings. • Preparing and executing bills and generating reports. • Ensuring the upkeep of all banqueting facilities and preparing snag-lists. • Maintaining and updating colleague performance logs. • Guiding the banquet server in set up of tables and place settings.
Education
Hotel Management · Bachelor
2006-07-24 - 2009-07-24
Institute of Hotel Management Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition (IHM), Kolkata, India
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Adon D'Souza
The reason why I chose to apply for this position specifically is because I have the necessary skills set needed to work independently although I do realise the importance of teamwork. Marketing is my passion. Am a workaholic by choice, because I love the work I do and I don’t give up easily. I would provide a stakeholder map and engagement process within 10 days of starting this role. This would include internal and external stakeholders. In addition to any objectives I would welcome a target in relation to bringing higher income from present sources. I would work on an income strategy that would bring more sponsors and donors. The reason why I do consider myself appropriate for the person specific requirement of this position is because I have more than 4 years’ Versatile International Marketing Experience working in Dubai at a 5-star property with 765 Rooms, 4 Restaurants and a Spa and Wellness Center. Single handedly looking after the department, website, loyalty program, social media, bloggers, events, shows, PR, SEO, SEM, email marketing, paid ads campaigns, training the interns, budget, photos, videos, plans and reports. At same time doing the show around, talking to guest, interacting and collaborating with potential guest. Pro-actively generating leads for Rooms, Restaurants Spa and Wellness and converting the lead into revenue that increased the monthly revenue from AED 8000 to AED 23,500. Systematically planned and executed the annual marketing plan with a budget of AED 397,880. Secondly am a creative and goal-oriented person. Proving myself by Topping Goa University in my Post Graduations among 10000 + students and receiving my gold medal in the presence of the President of India. I did my graduation in Economics and Psychology and was awarded the Student Of The Year among all the 64 Dacian colleges in Goa. As I never remained absent even for a single day in the 3 years and I excelled in academics, sports, and extracurricular activities. In my post-graduation. Apart from achieving more than 80 awards at the college, state, and national level, I have also invented an Eco-friendly product named "Bicycle Recycler". I have also completed my Diploma in acting and have done many ads, modeling shoots, and short films. I have in-depth experience in photography, videography, graphic design, digital marketing, customer retention, social media, and PR. That’s exactly the reason why I designed my CV in a unique and concise form that’s way different from traditional formats. I am someone who can multitask and work under pressure and I love that because that gets the best out of me. I believe in perfection, for me every small detail matters. As am a Psychology Graduate, I love working with new people sharing new ideas and learning something new every day. I really want to give my best because this is something I am good at and I believe if I can I will. Am just looking for an opportunity to prove myself. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thanking You Adon Nelson Richard Rajiv D'Souza adondsouza1@gmail.com 00971 56 893 0388
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