Recent Work Experience:

Cloud-Monger, LLC

Creative Director

Jan. 2019 — Pres.

• Named a Top-10 Winner in the Silks Gin 2023 “Garden to Glass” cocktail competition, presented by Chilled Magazine for winning cocktail, The Garden That Tilts

• Chosen to design the 2022 Fernet Branca Education Challenge Coin by Fratelli Branca and Branca USA

• Named a Top-20 Global Finalist in Novo Fogo’s 2022 “Bar Strength” cocktail competition, presented by Chilled Magazine and 375 Park Ave Spirits

• Took home the 1st place prize for crafting the winning cocktail, Star Baker, in the 2020 Grey Goose “Espresso Yourself” martini cocktail competition

• Won the J.P. Wiser's submission category for 375 Park Avenue Spirits' “Toast to the Service Industry” contest with winning cocktail, Yacht Rock

• Named a 2020 Castle & Key “Restoration Release” top ten finalist

• Named 2019 International Artists Day “Art of the Cocktail” Artist in Residence, presented by Van Gogh Vodka and Chilled Magazine for crafting the winning cocktail, The Sadness Will Not Last Forever

• Chosen to design the 2019 TN Fernet Branca Challenge Coin by Fratelli Branca and Branca USA

• Launched the Nearest Green Distillery Phase One Grand Opening on behalf of Uncle Nearest Tennessee Whiskey

• Named 2019 Brugal 1888 “Nearly Neat” International Top-10 Finalist for North, Central and South America

Honeytree Meadery

Bar Director, Bee Rights Activist

Mar. 2023 — Pres.

• Created Tennessee’s 2023 “Best Cocktail” as awarded by the Tennessee Pride Chamber

• Named a Top-3 “Nashville’s Best Bartender” in the Nashville Scene’s “Best of Nashville 2023”

• Named a Top-20 Global Finalist in Novo Fogo’s 2023 “Bossa Nova” cocktail competition, presented by Chilled Magazine and 375 Park Ave Spirits

Rocket Farm Restaurants

Beverage Supervisor, Assistant General Manager

Aug. 2019 — Mar. 2023

• Named Le Grand Courtage 2022 “Live Joyously” Top-20 Global Finalist, presented by Chilled Magazine

• Chosen for the cover story of Edible Nashville Magazine’s 2022 “The Restaurant Issue”

• Awarded “Nashville’s Best Bartender” in the Nashville Scene’s “Best of Nashville 2021”

• Took home 1st place prize for crafting the winning cocktail, Fountain of Youth, in the 2021 Nashville Cocktail Festival Desert Door Bartenders Competition

• Cocktail recipe, Casa de Cocalero, published in Chilled Magazine

• Named a Chilled 100 inductee by Chilled Magazine

• Chosen to design the 2021 TN Fernet Branca Challenge Coin by Fratelli Branca and Branca USA

• Awarded “Nashville’s Best Bartender” in the Nashville Scene’s “Best of Nashville 2020”

Make A Play Hospitality Group

Beverage Director, Assistant General Manager

Mar. 2019 — Aug. 2019

• Named Dave Wondrich’s “Punchout” Top-Three Winner for the 2019 Nashville Cocktail Festival

• Crafted house cocktail menu for Minerva Avenue’s patio grand opening Spring menu

• Curated special cocktail tasting booths for Nashville Cocktail Festival on behalf of Pernod-Ricard USA

• Named in the Nashville Post as “Someone with such an extraordinary mix of culinary and bartending talents to curate some of the most innovative cocktails in the world”

• Curated special cocktail menu for Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey's “Juneteenth” takeover event

• Named Lux Row Bourbon Battle 2nd Runner-up

Noelle Nashville

Beverage Director, Head Bartender

Sept. 2017 — Mar. 2019

• Crafted house cocktail menu for Rarebird’s opening Spring menu, including best-selling cocktail, Watership Down

• Named 2017 Espolon “Cocktail Fights” Regional Finalist

• Named 2018 Kubler “Reimagining the Classics” National champion for crafting the winning cocktail, Corridor in the Asylum

• Curated special cocktail menu for Domino Magazine’s Keep Shop Nashville takeover event

• Named 2018 Castle & Key “Restoration Release” National Finalist

• Selected as one of eight bartenders to represent the City of Nashville at the 2018 Music City Food and Wine Festival to create the 2018 Official Drink of Nashville

• Named 2018 Espolon “Cocktail Fights” Runner-up

• Curated special cocktail menu for Tribute Portfolio’s annual “Friendsgiving” spirited dinner

• Elected Chapter President of the United States Bartenders’ Guild by Nashville’s hospitality community

• Curated special cocktail menu for “3st of the Month” on behalf of Pernod-Ricard USA

• Named 2019 National Restaurant Association Show’s “Star of the Bar” Regional finalist

• Curated special cocktail menu for Nashville Fashion Week on behalf of Pernod-Ricard USA

Pinewood Social

Bartender, Shift Lead

Jan. 2017 — Nov. 2017

• Took home 1st place prize for creating the winning cocktail, Fin de Siecle, in Nashville’s 2nd annual “Commonwealth” cocktail tournament

• Appointed Director of Events’ Coordination by the Nashville Chapter President of the United States Bartenders’ Guild

• Helped create the official “Nashville Gin” for the United States Bartenders’ Guild at Edinburgh Gin’s “Science of Distillation” laboratory with head distiller Dave Wilkinson

51st Kitchen and Bar

Lead Bartender

Sept. 2016 — May 2017

• Named Top-Eight Finalist in Nashville’s 1st annual “Commonwealth” cocktail tournament

• Fashioned a beverage programme to reflect and compliment Executive Chef Francesco Vito’s hyper-local-seasonal farm-to-table menu

• Curated a seasonally-rotating menu of beer, wines, and house cocktails made using housemade syrups, tinctures and tonics from fresh herbs cultivated in on-premise produce garden

Education:

Bachelor of Arts — Union University

Major: Philosophy

Minor: Computer Science

2015 — Pres:

ΣΤΔ International English Honors Society