1. JOSEPH R. ARVIN, C.E.C
6918 Foxwood Dr
Schererville, IN. 46375
C: 219-381-6671
chefjoseph_arvin@yahoo.com
Accomplished Regional Sales Manager with 16+ years’ experience in the
food industry. Sales Career that is second to none. Spent time
growing sales at every corner.
Exceptional Negotiating Skills – with Food equipment dealers, Food
Distributors and End Users. Negotiate all marketing programs
Tremendous Leadership - developed and trained equipment representatives.
Advanced Presentation Skills - Experienced executive level distributor
presentations.
Motivational Public Speaker - Effective speaker and trainer.
EXPERIENCE
The Middleby Corporation 4/2012 - 11/2016
Viking Range, Greenwood MS 2/2016 – 11/2016
• Primary roll to drive sales at Viking appliance stores by means of demonstration cooking
• Media interviews, Home events, Architect and Design firms.
• Form a team of leadership and senior sales management
• Demo new products at all trade shows
• Successful in closing sales and securing new business with top accounts such as ABT,
HH Gregg, Best Buy, AJ Madison, Fisher Group, and Ms. G’s
• As a whole grew sales 18%
Blodgett Oven Company, Burlington VT 4/2012 – 2/2016
Combi Sales Manager / Corporate Executive Chef
• Primary role was to drive sales by working with equipment dealers and representative
groups
• Attend all trade shows
• Use my extensive network of Chefs for new business
• Created and opened new accounts such as Edward Don, TriMark, Wasserstrom, Boelter,
Bar Green - Ellison, Hockenberg, Stafford Smith and C&T Design
• Sales increase of 25-30% each year
• Grew business with such accounts as Dunkin Donuts, Pops Italian Beef, Buena Beef,
Aramark, Sodexo, Apple Corporate headquarters, and Club Corporation of America
• Received trainer of the year award from SEFA buying group
Gourmand, Inc., Mouscron, Belgium 11/08 – 2/12
High End Danish Croissants and Pastries

2. Business Development Manager, Gourmand, Inc.
• Start Up company in the USA
• Primary roll creating sales and hiring a food broker team across the USA
• Hunter of new sales
• Forced distribution by securing end user orders that I brought to food distributors, as a
result they in turn stocked and sold our items
• Successful in hiring a team of 11 food brokers
• Opened 14 distributors including Sysco, US Foods, GFS, Chef Source, and Midwest
European Imports
• Sold accounts such as Disneyland, converted all croissant business, lead to $300,000 in
croissant business
• Worked with Starbucks developing the start of their pasty sales
Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., Elgin, IL 3/05 – 11/08
Field Sales Consultant
• Leverage all national and regional professional relationships into working business
partnerships.
• Develop new product strategies in conjunction with Marketing and Sales Managers.
• Work with and train Midwest Food Brokers and give quarterly reviews
• Charged with sales of a new product line called Chef Ready Beef. Allowing the chef to
order beef that comes to him ready to cut steaks
• Sold over $2M pounds of new business in the first year using distributors such as Sysco,
US Food Service, GFS
• Drove continued sales by converting major hotel chains over to Chef ready beef. Marriott
hotels being the first conversion
NETWORKING
National Member of the American Culinary Federation
Culinary Fight Club Champion
60, 000 followers on social media outlets, largest quantity of them are from the food service
business
Member of Club Corporation of America managers group
EDUCATION
BALTIMORE INTERNATIONAL CULINARY COLLEGE
Bachelor of Arts in Applied Science and Culinary Arts: May 1995
Externship: Monk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY
Externship: Harbor Court Hotel, Baltimore, MD
Certificate of Achievement for completion of European Epicurean Cookery, Dublin, Ireland