Matthew Walton
Ellenbrook,WA
Summary
I am an Australian citizen from WA, looking to move into the yachting industry and absorb as much as i can. Have always been around and love the beach, and wanted to combine travel, learning and hospitality together. While i am a green deckhand to working on boats, Im a very reliable worker and learn very quickly and adapt to a multitude of situations. I am applying for deckhand positions, but am open to the possibility of helping out interiorly if needed.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Level 3 Bartender/waiter/yardie
The Royal Hotel
Perth, WA
03.2024 - 01.2025
- Bartender- Served beers, wines, cocktails and soft drinks, through a dispense system and in person. Would upsell and recommend products with knowledge of what’s best for customers wants and needs. Followed opening and closing procedures for bar, including restocking and delegation of tasks
- Waiter- Took orders of customers, recommended items, ran food and drinks too them and maintained customer service. Finalised closing of floor and extra cleaning or duty tasks
- Yardie- Managed dry stock, multiple wine orders, spirits and keg orders, received orders from distributor, stocked cool room bars and wine shelves. Prebatching of cocktails, troubleshoot problems with stock, organisation of wines and spirits and bars
Duty manager to 2IC
La Cholita
Perth, WA
03.2023 - 03.2024
- The use of a rostering program (Tanda) to schedule and plan the week's staffing, as well as the management of leave and days off.
- Management of staff, as well as other duty managers, and allocating tasks, focuses on troubleshooting problems as they arise.
- Working with upper management in a number of issues relating to stock, reviews, KPI's and staffing.
- Ordering all the desired alcohol, dry goods, non-alcoholic beverages, imported spirits, gas, and fruit, while communicating with many different distributors, portals, and representatives.
- Use of IMPOS system to input purchasing orders, alters prices, change stock levels and menu changes
- Daily cash up of the tills and identifying variances, managing labour and reporting on the nights events
- Identifying increases in stock prices, and subsequently increasing our selling price to match a specific beverage costing percentage we have allocated
- Weekly stocktaking of all alcohol-based products, troubleshooting all variances identified and investigation into it
- Use of another invoicing system to process incoming invoices and dispute when needed.
- Experimentation, production and balancing of tequila-based cocktails, fitting requirements such as seasons, event and most importantly, beverage costing
- Presentation of cocktails to owner to be desired upon, altered and approved, then subsequently rolling out as a weekly cocktail special
Education
High School Diploma -
La Salle College
Midland, WA12-2018
Skills
- Reliable and dependable
- Critical thinking
- Relationship building
- Calm under pressure
- Strong multitasking
- Physical fitness and stamina
- Group dynamics
- Lifting and moving cargo
- Handling cargo
- Cleaning and sanitation
Certification
- STCW + Elementary first aid
- RYA Powerboat level 2
- NSW RSA certified
- Unrestricted approved managers
- Certificate 2 in Sport and Recreation
- All government covid hygeine course
- Hand hygiene + manual handling course
Affiliations
- Have a good understand and knowledge of recreational fishing; including casting, baiting, setting up rods and technique for fishing.
- Very into gym and sport, with understanding of techniques and how to use most equipment. Personally want to learn more about watersports e.g. surfing etc
- Made and experimented with alcohol and mixers creating cocktails for my past hospitality jobs. Knowledgeable in mixology.
References
- Anita Segura, Venue Manager at La Cholita, 0474 354 447
- Gabrielle Bennet, Duty Manager At The Beaufort, 0483 863 722
- Bella Greenhalgh, AVM/Front of house manager at the royal hotel, 0421 253 332
Timeline
Level 3 Bartender/waiter/yardie
The Royal Hotel
03.2024 - 01.2025
Duty manager to 2IC
La Cholita
03.2023 - 03.2024
High School Diploma -
La Salle College
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