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With over 30 years in the hospitality business, Expert's experience started by managing high-volume private night clubs and quickly moved into restaurant management. Expert has successfully held positions as General Manager, Area Director, Director of Operations, Operations Consultant, Senior Director of Operations, Vice President, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.

Expert's experience includes upscale casual dining, casual dining, fine dining, fresh casual and more. Expert has built high-performance management teams to open and lead new restaurants. His responsibilities have included menu development, marketing, purchasing, human resources, training, accounting, design, site selection, construction, forensic cost analysis and operations. Most often in his career, Expert has been responsible for any operational challenges, whether simple or complex and creating a long term strategy for team, guest experience and financial results. His intuitive ability to look at day-to-day operations as well as create strong financial results helps lead a team to excellence in performance and profitability.

Since 1998, Expert has been a founding partner in 30 restaurants which include a 12,000 sq ft sports bar in Murrells Inlet, a 40,000-square-foot seafood buffet in Myrtle Beach, a 20,000-square-foot bar, a 9,200-square-foot upscale steakhouse and wine bar in Greenville, South Carolina, 2 gourmet food trucks, a gourmet deli, 6 full-service seafood restaurants, 2 Mexican restaurants in Salt Lake City, 3 country-themed restaurants in Tennesee and North Carolina, a gourmet delivery pizza restaurant in Salt Lake City, a 700-square-foot gourmet taco stand, and 10 fast food restaurants in Florida.

Expert’s ventures as the founding partner of Employer include having been retained by ITV Studios to create “Hell’s Kitchen the restaurant," Anheuser-Busch, the Utah Jazz, developing hospitality seminars for the US Commerce Department as part of an international program called SABIT, Buffalo Wild Wing’s, Culver's, Quiznos, Pillsbury Law Firm, Gray Robinson law firm, The Drury Inn, Pusser's BVI concepts, Gainesville correctional penitentiary and more.

Expert has handled anything from independent assessments to designing, opening and managing over 15 different concepts. Expert has worked with multiple chains to world renown Chefs in every aspect of the hospitality industry.Developed and designed Hell's Kitchen prototype for ITV studios to franchise Developed hospitality seminars for US commerce department International program SabitDeveloped Webinars and seminars for Employer Franchise/Licensee program