Reza Akhavan USAS - Office
7210 Rogers St 5135 S. Durango Dr., Suite 101
Las Vegas, NV 89118 Las Vegas, NV 89113
Telephone: (702) 254-2826 cell Telephone: 702-AKHAVAN cell
[email protected] Fax: 702-407-9998
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LAST POSITIONS HELD
Real Estate Executive with Prominent Realty Group
ACA for Nevada – Navigator
USAS Professional Consultant Company President
Generations Medical Center Chief Financial CFO & Director of Operations

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
-32 years of food and beverage management experience.
-Supper Club Key Employee for Applebee’s appointed by Metropolitan Police Dept.
-ServSafe Food Handlers Card Holder for Food and Bar
-Extremely detail oriented with strong analytical ability.
-Knowledge of POS and report generating methods.
-30 years of recruiting, training, standard and policy development experience.
-Great leadership, interpersonal, communication, and team building skills.
-Extensive knowledge in streamlining business practices to achieve efficiency and effectiveness. -Knowledge of Hospitality operations including sales and event execution.
-5 years of Night Club and Late night management experience.
-10 years Experience in managing medical offices and maintaining financials.
-Streamlining business office to maximize profitability without compromising service.
-Tri-lingual: English, Farsi, and Turkish (fluent in all).

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Executive General Manager at Applebee’s Restaurant(s) 1993 – 2012
(Total of 9 locations including San Diego County, CA and Las Vegas, NV)
Acapulco Restaurant and Night Club San Diego, Ca 1988 - 1993
Ramin Etebar MD, Executive Officer and CFO Primary Care Medical Office 1998 to 2005
Generations Medical Center, CFO & DO 2003 to Present
USAS – Professional Consultant 2008 to Present
Real Estate Sales Executive – Prominent Realty Group 2012 to Present

EDUCATION
Bachelors of Science: Business Administration, National University San Diego 1989
Associates Degree in Marketing, National University San Diego 1985

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
-Responsible for Applebee’s Food & Beverage division with over 80 team members and approximate annual revenue of 3.5M, at 9 separate locations over the past 19 years.
-Developed efficiencies in the Accounting Systems by creating Coding systems that have been developed and implemented in all departments and have proven successful in allowing managers to focus more on the guest service by reducing administrative tasks.
-Trained and successfully promoted Management Team members to General Manager positions.
-Executive Training Manager for developing Director of Operations for US, Canada, Mexico and in the UAE.
-Night club promotions, advertising and managing the Bar, Cocktail Servers, DJ’s.
-Created and developed training manuals to reduce risk within the departments.
-Implemented menu plating and pairing guide to improve guest suggestive and up sell.
-Created EXCEL Spreadsheets for the Declining Budget on the General Business Ledgers
-Developed and implemented new Human Resource Policy for Medical office.
-Developed and Implemented office policy and marketing tools for Medical Centers.
-Accomplished solutions for office Computer and Software Technologies on an on-going basis.
-Real Estate Sales in SNV with Prominent Realty Group.
-Signing Agent and consulting client and help translating documents from Farsi or Turkish to English.
-Approved translator for DMV & Henderson Justice Court.
-ACA Nevada Navigator/Consultant.

AWARDS
Applebee’s Presidential Leadership Council Top 12 out of 1600 Restaurants--2000, 2001, & 2002
Applebee’s Pioneer in Training Award 2002
Applebee’s Training General Manager Award 2002
Applebee’s Highest Customer Satisfaction Index Award 2002
Applebee’s Most Improved Controllable Profit Award 2003
Applebee’s Western Region Certificate of Excellence Boulevard Mall #6005 Highest Flow-through Percent 2003
Applebee’s Western Region 6014 Charleston Training Restaurant Award 2005
Applebee’s Las Vegas Westland Fair April 18, 2005 Opening Award
Applebee’s Premier Emerald Club, Charleston Location-Highest Achievement in Restaurant Cleanliness Standards, 2009 & 2010

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Financial Contributor to Dept. of Pediatric Oncology St. Joseph’s Hospital 2009-Current
Volunteer for Opportunity Village Events 2009-2011
Volunteer medical assisting to homebound patients in Las Vegas, NV 2002-2005
Career Education Program Presentations to Children at CCSD school(s) 2002-2004

References
Allison Copening – Nevada State Senator 702-496-6664
Kazem Fathie – Neurosurgeon and Chairman of the Board at AANOS 702- 273-6868