94-786 Kaaholo St. Waipahu, Hawaii96797 808-220-0940 lanceum@hawaii.

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Lance Utaro Matsunaga

Objective Interested in applying for your company. Summary I am currently employed at Sams Club as an event specialist. I am face to face with customers daily and have a daily sales goal which I usually meet or exceed. Not only does this job give me customer experience, but also experience in sales. I have experience when it comes to talking with people and giving great customer service. I was also one of the directors of Hawaiis only Anime estimated attendees count has risen to 7000 and it keeps rising! Have helped out with food conventions as a server/busser
For every job I have held I have given it my all, and for a couple places the general managers were kind enough to be my reference. I even have my instruction as a used to be the food and beverage director at the Sheraton hotel in Waikiki. reference for my time at the KaIkena fine dining restaurant on the campus of KCC. He

convention; Kawaii-Kon. It is a very hard job running the events, and an

Ive worked from a fast paced sushi restaurant (Genki Sushi), to one of the top Japanese restaurants (Shokudo). Then moved on to one of Hawaiis top Italian/fine dining restaurants (Assagios).

Ive had pretty much every position in the FOH for a restaurant. I have experiences from hosting, to cashiering, to serving, to bussing.

Skills and Accomplishments

11/18/07, 12/10/07
I got to help Chef Mavro out with passing out his cooking at the Hale Aina Awards. It's great experience meeting all these great chefs and trying out their dishes. It was also great experience practicing my people skills. In the end it and now can use these for future resumes. benefited me by helping me to gain experience. I've got to meet famous chefs,

Professional Experience
[Start Date] [End Date] ASM Sams Club Waipahu, Hawaii

Events Specialist/ Sales Associate Meet the sales expectation by selling to the customers by helping through a demo. In the demo we are required to cook the product, and sell through the demos.
2008 2009 Assagios Honolulu, Hawaii

Expediter/Busser [Main Responsibilities]

11/20/2007 1/26/2008 Shokudo Honolulu, Hawaii

Host As a host my responsibilities was to take down reservations, create a floor plan, knowledge of the menu was expected.
2/10/2007 6/7/2007 Genki Sushi Honolulu, Hawaii

Server As a server I was given a variety of tasks which includes hosting, ordering from of each and every type of sushi served in Genki Sushi.
8/23/2006 1/05/2007 Fantastic Shots Aiea, Hawaii

customers, expediting food, and bussing tables. Also had to understand the knowledge

Photographer My main responsibilities as a photographer are to help customers pick out their poses, background, and photograph pictures.

First Job 2007

Sumo Sushi

Waipahu, Hawaii

Cashier First Job.

2006 2010

Kawaii Kon

Honolulu, Hawaii

Assistant Director- Event Director

My position as an Assistant Director was to schedule the events of when its going to be held at, where, and how it will be executed. I also had to manage the event staff members to run the events.

Education
Attended primary schooling and high school at Pacific Buddhist Academy.

From the early days of working as only cashier and kitchen help, I have worked my way up to waiter. The last job experience comes from Genki Sushi Ward Center. The first fine dining restaurant I worked in would be KaIkena here at KCC. Where I learned the fundamentals of the front of the house. I then moved on to Shokudo restaurant to strengthen my hosting skills. Recently I have gotten my certificate for Sanitation and Safety. I also completed a Supervisory Management, Human Resource Management, and Marketing Course.

Certifications
2007 2007

Sanitation and Safety Certificate

Kapiolani Community College

Honolulu, Hawaii

Professional and Community Memberships Kawaii Kon Staff Member Personal Interests Culinary Trends- It's always changing, shaping itself into better and more memorable types of cooking. Such as fusion, it hit Hawaii very hard and pushed our culinary standards way up!I hope to learn a lot more about the culinary trends in society and to keep learning.
Computers-Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word

Books- I believe books are a fundamental to our learning as well as education and experience. I have read many books extending from culinary, management, finance, and human resources. Many of these books are from University level and some books help to apply to skills.

References

Some of the books that teach skills: rules.

ServSafe by Nation Restaurant Association- Informs reader about sanitation Organizational Behavior by Jason A. Colquitt- Informs reader about management skills Culinary Fundamentals by Pearson- Informs reader about chefs skills

Rex Ibanez, Neal Sumimoto Samson Eligio Jenn

Genki Sushi Manager Shokudo Manager Fantastic Shots Manager

808-591-5600 808-947-9596 808-488-8228

Fine Dining Class KCC (Aaron Chau) Reference Management Supervision (Dag Faustino) OtherGenki Sushi location at Ward contact number Shokudo location contact number 808-591-5600 808-941-3701