Daniel Mullings

Experience

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  Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel

  Jan 1994 - Sept 1995

  Chef

  For two fglorious years I trained at this beautiful and well known hotel in the heart of knightsbridge in London.It has been a happy and fulfilling experience, and sometimes an hilarious one that taught how to aim high and anything is possible.I represented them at BBC Food & Drink as part of a team and they even help me on my placement in Amsterdam where I met some amazing chefs. Imaging me cant speak dutch working in a 4* restaurant.I learnt so much from Knightsbridge and Holland thats how I manged to take freelance work regularly in order to keep my skills tuned. Show less

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  Rayon D'or

  Jan 1995 - Sept 1997

  Chef De Partie

  The Rayon D"Or has since changed its name but back in good the days it was my training ground for what was I later to become a Chef de Partie I was commissioned to run one particular area of a restaurant's kitchen. This position found me in kitchens with large numbers of at times agency staff where I delegation of the various kitchen duties specially at Xmas which was essential to its smooth running. In kitchens there where there is more than one Chef de Partie, so learning at work was the order of the day for me. Show less

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  Harris Academy Peckham

  Jun 2005 - Apr 2010

  Hospitality Subject Leader

  Key responsibilities include.Subject Leader for Hospitality and CateringRaised standard of teaching and learning within the food technology and Hospitality subjectExternal Verifier Harris sites teaching BTEC hospitalityEstablishing numerous external links (community, organisations, businesses and international), Improved standards of attainment by creating rigorous monitoring and tracking systems AchievementsSuccessfully led the students to compete in school in the Rotary club young chef of the year winning the local heats 2008 2009.I launched a series of curriculum-based catering projects in conjunction with SEN behavior unit and local community, including community gourmet classes.Involved in the design of the kitchen and restaurant's realistic work environment within three, and four-star food prep and cooking standardsOrganised work based learning, commercial training and onsite assessment and training (OSAT)Developed food prep and cooking standards that has been utilised by the teaching staff at break, lunch and formal dinners. Show less

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  Teamchefs.tv

  May 2008 - Feb 2013

  Hospitality and Catering for Educational Consultant

  Supporting schools and colleges to maximise hospitality and catering student's learning by providing honest advice and support in hospitality and catering education.Organising, communicative and written skills in making holistic decision within new projects providing a realistic working environment, commercial training and on site assessment and training within three, four and five-star food prep and cooking standards, I ensure that the student's learning experience is enhanced using mobile devises; this is carefully balanced with a commercial focus to ensure that the potential of a catering operation is fully realised.Run iPads as a tool in the kitchen workshop as part of an international iPad program linked to a variety of academic iPad groups. The workshop is heavily based on hands-on demonstrations and activities that allow educators to experience first hand immediate access to suitable app information as well as the fluency the iPad can provide to create and share to students and staff.Menu development: recipes through to menu manuals and training Operational components, from systems, controls, restaurant technology, general management and execution planning Training: It includes training material development, through to training systems, training execution and evaluation. Show less

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  The Canterbury High School

  Apr 2010 - Oct 2010

  Chef lecturer / Teacher

  Developed my second chefs academy from turning a primary school kitchen into a chefs training kitchen. Hasving student gain internal and external work experience. Started BTEC Hospitality level 3 NVQ level 2-3 to enable students to become chefs and have the highest qualifications possible.

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  Longfield Academy

  Apr 2011 - May 2012

  Chef Lecturer

  The VRQ course I am teaching is new future chef program that will change hospitality and catering learning.We are developing a VRQ scheme of work in Professional cooking and Food and Beverages where the students are using an IPad to improve their learning both in the classroom, the industrial kitchen and at home.I am also part of a research group in the use of apps in education and a ILearning coach.An aspiring author publishing Ibooks/epub directly to my students.I prepared and provide an experience for a student to understand their courses. As the Apple iPad tablet writes a new chapter for eBooks, I recreate this new way of publishing and build personalized iPad eBooks Publication Applications for publishing books to the students via my own server.My website TeamChefs.Tv has been integrated into the students coursework as a VLE resources platform and communicating coursework via uploads email. Show less

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  Teamchefs.tv Ltd

  Feb 2013 - Nov 2014

  Hospitality and Catering Consultant

  I am fast becoming one a leading Hospitality and Catering for Educational Consultant, delivering unique style of training using mobile devices to organisations across the UK and as far as Australia. As well as training courses and consultancy work, I continue to be an active lecturer.My core areas of training are use of computers, iPads and mobile devices in eduction, ibooks, developing educational resources, effective development and delivery of the hospitality and catering curriculum.I strongly believe that learners and instructors can deploy these devices and resources to enhance the learning experience, access programming and resources where and when they need it, and become confident and resourceful users of this new technology.My training programmes are tailored to reach a wide range of staff in education.I have delivered hospitality and catering training to a range of Educational establishments, sessions for Learning Support staff, Learning Mentors and college tutors. My training has even extended into running a pilot mobile device scheme within a EBD school which entailed trailing iPads within the curriculum and writing their effective use of technology in education departmental development plan. The school is ahead of others testing iPads with students due to the risk of damage, since September, several students have been part in an iPad's loan scheme without incident or damage to the equipment or student. I have already established an approach in which all of their hospitality and humanities courses are created for online and the traditional classroom with year eight students even building an app around their coursework.Before setting up his own training and consultancy business, I was a highly successful chef lecturer who rose the profiles of several colleges and a Head of hospitality in Secondary Education. My teaching experience has been based on working in inner-city areas, new build schools and with challenging pupils. Show less

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  Digital Leaders SE

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Education Adviser

  Develop the National Digital Leaders’ SE Network by providing information and advice on current best practices in education in developing digital leadership skills in technology integration and innovation.Assisting school communities with technology support and through positive models of digital litracy skills.

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  Techembrace

  Mar 2014 - now

  Director

  Techembrace, was established in 2014 after we read a study by MIT Sloan Management Review and Capgemini Consulting on how companies may face a digital imperative: Adopt new technologies effectively or face competitive obsolescence. We specialise in providing appropriate technology solutions to organisations by explaining new technology to people in an easy-to-understand and pressure-free way.Our current focus is using AR and videos to enhance learning experiences.Support in the planning and implementation of digital projects, specifically in identification of brand projects to leverage to develop and pull through the development of standards, guidelines and /or templates • Provide solutions and the means to bring the academic syllabus to life • Manage and monitor critical steps to ensure a smooth and successful review of proposed guidelines/standards/templates • Assist in the development of the subsequent educational communications and training to Digital and other stakeholders. • Manage of consultant workers in order to complete deliverables • Work with internal teams and outside agencies/vendors to define project scope, timelines, and deliverables • Define project tasks and resource requirements and communicate needs to management • Identify, assemble, and coordinate project support teams (both internal and external) • Develop and maintain full scale project plans and timelines • Draft creative briefs and other necessary requirements documents to support the development of digital programs. • Manage project budgets within internal tracking systems • Provide direction and support to project teams and implement changes when needed in order to achieve project objectives • Liaise and ensure communication between project support teams • Monitor project statuses and budgets and provide daily reporting on progress, problems, and solutions Show less