Sophie Kirkpatrick

-Provided friendly, attentive service in a busy brewery/restaurant environment.
- Guide guests through menu options and craft beer selections to create memorable dining experiences.
- Manage multiple tables efficiently while ensuring accuracy with orders and special requests.
- Work closely with kitchen and bar staff to deliver timely and high-quality service.
- Helping train new team members and kept the workspace clean and organized.
- Boost sales by promoting specials and recommending food and drink pit further!

As the Special Events Coordinator at Cinema Makeup School, my role involved:

• Creating unique, enriching experiences for students and the makeup community.

• Organizing seminars with Oscar-winning makeup artists, bringing industry legends to share insights and techniques.

• Planning live makeup demos for major conventions like Comic-Con, and other major conventions

• Developing various enrichment activities to inspire and engage students, ensuring they had valuable opportunities to grow and connect within the field.

• Working with students in their daily operations

• Coordinated cross-functional teams to execute successful events within tight deadlines.
• Collaborated with vendors and suppliers to ensure seamless delivery of exceptional event services.
• Greeted patrons and participants at events to guide guests to locations and answer questions.
• Planned and hosted elite parties and networking events for top makeup artists in the entertainment industry

• Company Overview: Intelligentsia Cafe (one of the country's leading coffee companies)
• Trained by the Intelligentsia head Barista (one of the country's leading coffee companies)
• Create latte art to enhance the customer experience
• Perform daily maintenance on commercial espresso machine, including cleaning, and fixing any quality issues
• Educates customers, and other employees on different coffee drinks (different roast types, blends, and new seasonal drinks)
• Creates new special promotional drinks for special occasions, holidays
• Training other baristas on drink standards, cleanliness and coffee bar etiquette
• Maintain a very organized and clean workspace up to California State health codes
• Intelligentsia Cafe (one of the country's leading coffee companies)

• Apply make-up to enhance or alter the appearance of students appearing theatrical productions
• Study production information, such as character descriptions or period settings, to create beautifully stylized and accurate make-up designs
• Duplicate work precisely to replicate characters' appearances on a reoccurring basis
• Alter or maintain make-up during productions as necessary to compensate for lighting changes or achieve continuity of effects
• Maintain a sterile and organized environment to ensure the safety of actors and avoid the spread of bacteria

• Demonstrating excellent, and personal customer service
• Creating hand-crafted beverages to a strict set of standards
• Inventory audits and stock management
• Use of stringent food safety procedures to ensure compliance with local law
• Training and developing of new baristas
• Strategically Designing and maintaining retail areas
• Team management, and communication in a very high stress environment

• Maintained and operated espresso machines and commercial coffee brewers
• Direct activities of store operations concerned with the organization, maintenance, or purchasing of products
• Design and set up advertising signs and displays of merchandise on shelves, counters, or tables to attract customers and promote sales
• Open and close cash registers, performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits

• Promotes physical, academic, and social development by implementing diverse classroom and outdoor activities
• Trained in and implemented the Montessori Method of teaching, including using positive language and tools to resolve a variety of behavioral and emotional problems
• Provided one-on-one attention to students while simultaneously maintaining overall focus on a group of 25 or more preschool-aged children
• Worked with interdisciplinary team members to evaluate children's progress and recommend appropriate learning plans