Bernard Bwayo is a chef from Uganda seeking new opportunities. He has over 10 years of experience working in kitchens in Dubai, Uganda, and Kenya. His most recent role was as a Commis Chef at The Butcher Shop & Grill in Dubai, where he helped prepare meals, ensure food safety standards, and more. Bwayo is passionate about cooking, has excellent communication skills, and aims to continue advancing in his culinary career.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Chef
NAME : BERNARD BWAYO
DATE OF BIRTH : 29/04/1982
PHONE No : 0528429519
EMAIL ADDRESS : bwayoba@gmail.com
PERSONAL PROFILE
An understanding, calm, helpful, hard working individual, who has a passion
for great food and enjoys cooking mouth watering and aromatic dishes
including a great passion in making desserts.
CAREER OBJECTIVE
To grow in the kitchen and make an excellent chef while moving up ladders and
making a difference wherever I am.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
THE BUTCHER SHOP & GRILL, DUBAI – 2015 to date
Commis Chef
We are a steak house serving all kinds of steaks and seafood.
- Ensuring good hygiene and health and safety at all times.
- Measuring dish ingredients and portioning.
- Helping with deliveries of stock .
- Ensure FIFO & FEFO are observed on daily basis.
- Doing inventory at every end month.
- Ensuring the par level is maintained on daily basis.
- Preparation of all the desserts and ensuring there is enough to always.
- Doing all the mise en place for grill, hot and salad section.
- Preparing the sauces and dressings for the salads.
- Serve on both hot and cold section.
- Making proper handover to the person replacing me before signing out.
- Ensuring all the items in the chillers and freezers are not expired.
- Defrosting items from the freezer as needed.
- Preparing the runners items.
- Report to the chef in charge any items both in the freezer and the chillers
about to expire to lessen on wastage.
- Logging of wastage on daily basis.
2013 – 2015. THE GEEK RESTAURANT
KITCHEN HELPER
Serves Asian food both buffet and takeaway.
 Keeping the kitchen tidy at all times.
 Prepping of different items to match with the orders of the day.
 To make sure all tables and floors are clean and tidy before signing out.
 Making reports of missing and broken items to the managing team.

2.  Checking of chillers and freezers were working properly.
 Helping in the preparation of different Asian dishes.
 Preparation of desserts and sweets.
 Making sure the septic and soak pit are drained in time to avoid any
delays in deliveries.
 Helping with the preparations of the desserts and starters.
BEST OPERATORS IN CATERING, KAMPALA UG. 2011 – 2013
Line cook
serves Ugandan dishes mainly.
 Doing miss en place for the day.
 Check the temperatures of the chiller and make sure chillers are working
at 5 degrees and below.
 Worked on the fry section.
 Getting the long cooking items on fire early enough to make sure it will be
ready by lunch time.
 Helping with the menu adjustments.
 Teaching the new staff on what we had to prepare when and how.
 Making suggestions of new ideas to enhance the customers’ experience.
 Helping with the list of items of needed to purchase for the next day.
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Feb – July, 2007 New Horizons Learning centre Comptia A+
Jan – Feb, 2007 Makerere University Computer Applications
2002 – 2004 Elgon Technical College Mechanical Engineering
2000 – 2001 Manafwa High School UACE
1996 – 1999 St. Peter’s College, Tororo UCE
PERSONAL DETAILS
Passport No : B1385068
Visa status : Residence
Religion : Christian
Nationality : Ugandan
Marital status : Single
LANGUAGES
English - very good at spoken and written
Kiswahili - good at both spoken and written
Luganda - good at both spoken and written

3. HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
 Cooking
 Traveling
 Swimming
 Making friends
OTHER SKILLS
 Cooking and research
 Communication
 Research
 Listening
REFEREES
Available upon request