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Background

Leadership Before Construction

Before construction, I built my foundation in restaurant operations, customer relations, sales, marketing, and team leadership. These roles taught me how to stay calm in chaos, solve problems quickly, manage people, communicate clearly, and keep things moving in fast-paced environments.

Foundation

What These Roles Built In Me

  • Leadership in fast-moving environments
  • Customer and employee relations
  • Scheduling, hiring support, and daily operations
  • Inventory, deposits, payroll support, and paperwork
  • Event planning, catering coordination, and local marketing
  • Store openings, team training, and problem-solving under pressure

Earlier roles

Where it started

East Bay Deli

Assistant General Manager, Marketing Coordinator, Front-of-House Shift Leader, and Corporate Manager

Charleston, SC / Columbia, SC · 2008–2013 and 2015–2017

Held multiple leadership roles across East Bay Deli, growing from assistant management into marketing and corporate operations. Managed daily restaurant operations, front-of-house and back-of-house teams, inventory, deposits, scheduling support, employee paperwork, catering/event coordination, and customer relations. Later managed multiple restaurant locations and helped open a new Columbia, SC store.

Whisk Bakery Cafe / Charleston Hospitality Group

General Manager

Charleston, SC · 2013

Managed daily bakery café operations, scheduling, payroll, deposits, inventory, employee paperwork, kitchen operations, customer relations, and menu support. Helped lead the business during a fast-paced growth and promotional period.

Charleston Hospitality Group

Local Store Marketer

Charleston, SC · 2013

Represented multiple restaurant brands through local marketing, networking, promotional events, catered events, staff coordination, scheduling, inventory, and community outreach.

Wholesale Escapes

Off-Premise Concierge and Promotional Marketer

Charleston, SC · 2013–2014

Helped travelers find lodging, dining, and entertainment around Charleston while selling travel packages, building local connections, supporting event setups, and giving sales presentations.

Pages Okra Grill

Server

Mount Pleasant, SC · 2014–2015

Worked in a fast-paced hospitality environment handling customer relations, expo line support, shift flow, and team support.

Southern Finance

Senior Customer Sales Representative

Charleston, SC · 2007–2008

Handled payments, deposits, office inventory, customer service, collections calls, field calls, loan renewals, and daily office operations.

Connection

Leadership Through Communication

Throughout my career, I have helped businesses, hospitality groups, festivals, and organizations grow through community outreach, event promotion, volunteer coordination, customer engagement, and relationship building.

These experiences strengthened my leadership abilities by teaching me how to communicate effectively, build trust, organize teams, and connect people around shared goals.

These roles may have come before construction, but they shaped how I work today: calm under pressure, quick to adapt, willing to lead, and able to bring order to moving pieces.