Ari Consulting Services

Managing Director

Managing and executing the digital projects of lifestyle Velvet Magazine and House of Hend designer clothes e-commerce business.

Digital Consultant

Integral Media Solutions

Developing and implementing digital customer acquisition campaigns. Projects consisted of website management, Google AdWords, attention to mobile optimization and/or responsiveness, SEO and SEM, Social Media components such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, Instagram, and YouTube marketing.

Project Manager (Finance Ministry of India)

I-PAC (Indian Political Action Committee)

Completed all marketing for events via social media and coordinated all aspects including volunteers, media, and ranking state leaders.

Assistant Campaign Manager (Chief Minister Bihar)

Flipkart

Research ways to attract more followers/fans, increase fan engagement, and the latest trends and developments in social media and digital marketing.

Marketing Intern

Digital Marketing Consultant | Engineer | Poet

You can call me a digitally savvy consultant and social media marketer with a decade of experience working with national and international brands. My passion lies in crafting exceptional digital communication strategies that help companies reach their full potential. I specialize in building and strengthening online channels to effectively engage audiences and drive results.

Throughout my career, I've honed my skills in creating impactful brand and marketing campaigns that deliver high returns on investment. I understand the importance of crafting compelling content that resonates with target audiences and drives meaningful interactions.

One of my key strengths is my ability to connect brands with consumers through various social media platforms and websites. I excel in creating content that cuts through the noise and captivates audiences, ultimately driving engagement and conversions.

Additionally, I leverage partnerships with top influencers to further amplify brand messaging and boost online presence, particularly on platforms like LinkedIn.

Overall, my expertise lies in leveraging digital channels to help companies elevate their brand presence, drive growth, and achieve their business objectives.

Naushad Ashraf

Matthew's Italian Restaurant

Consultant Chef

Sunny's Seafood Market

Kemble Inn

The Kemble Inn is a historic mansion that was a bed and breakfast where I was hired to add a restaurant to the establishment. The restaurant is open for breakfast and dinner, Wednesday through Sunday; while breakfast is seven days a week. It is open between June and October.
My duties include;
Training and Cross training
Budgeting
Inventory Control and Costing
Menu planning

Executive Chef

Mazzeo's Ristorante

Mazzeo's Ristorante has consistently been named the 'Best Italian Restaurant in the Berkshires'. I was hired to help them transition into a larger space as a Consultant and Chef. My core duties included managed a staff of 5 Chefs, 4 cooks and several waitstaff. I organized budgets, conducted inventory controls and costing, planned menus and provided catering services to parties both on and off-premise.

Culinary Consultant

Sugar Hill Assisted Living

Planning menus and preparing meals for the residents in careful relation to the nutritional and healthcare requirements of the residents.
Planning and preparing meals for parties and events for residents as well as visiting clients. 
Fixing an annual as well as monthly budget as well as ensuring all kitchen/dining room/recruitment costs fall within budget.  
Recruiting, training and managing personnel and staff at the kitchen and dining room. 

I have also received all the mandatory training required to perform jobs in the Assisted Living and Nursing industry.

Culinary Director

Cafe M Squared

Located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Cafe M2 is a high end restaurant situated at Technopark. The restaurant is a venture attached to software company M Squared. I was brought in to build a restaurant from ground up- conceptualising, designing and building. It consists of a fully exposed kitchen, wood-fire brick oven, bakery. 
Cafe M2 is a high-end restaurant specialising Italian and Indian cuisine, home made ice creams and full service bakery. I personally staffed and trained all chefs, bakers and waitstaff

Shakespeare Theatre Company

Exec Chef

Seven Hills Inn

Prior to my employment,the resort was a seasonal hotel open only for summer, which I converted into a year round resort. The project took 4 years.
The resort is a 127 room hotel with 2 banquet rooms, nightclub, fine dining restaurant and private dining room that held 12 people. It was a 5 diamond Michelin rated hotel specializing in weddings. In the private dining room, I served a set seven course meal for 100$ per person (wine not included). My clients included Leonard Bernstein, Yo Yo Ma, Frank Sinatra, Beverly Sills.

Ricco DeLuca and Compnay

Spaghetti Factory

Spaghetti Factory was declared the only five star Michelin rated restaurant in Massachusetts at the time. A pure dinner house, the restaurant served Italian cuisine. The restaurant was a two year project created out of an old tyre factory that I revamped into a high end restaurant. The annual revenue was 1.5 million a year. Reservations were taken two months in advance and it held 125 people.

Growing up in a traditional Italian family, Chef Riccardo DeLuca's life revolved around food. For him, becoming was a Chef was not so much a choice as a calling. He received his first lessons at his mother- Antonia DeLuca's kitchen. Herself an accomplished Chef, Mrs. DeLuca would eventually hire Chef Riccardo to work at her restaurants in the Berkshires and later in California. 

His first job, at the age of twelve, was at the Pittsfield Rye Bakery. Shortly thereafter, he was sent to work at East Side Cafe in Pittsfield. He graduated from Taconic High School with a major in Culinary Arts and won a scholarship the the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in France. Chef Ricco, as he likes to be called, had to defer his acceptance on account of the ongoing Vietnam war in case he was to be drafted. He remained at 'DeLuca's' – the restaurant owned by his mother and was worked, he said, “harder than I'd ever worked before.” 

After owning and operating several successful restaurants, Chef Ricco went on to an eleven-year stint as Executive Chef at the Five Star Michelin Rated kitchen at Seven Hills Resorts in Lenox, Ma where he can count among his fans: Yo-Yo Ma, Dave Brubeck and Leonard Bernstein to name a few. He was Executive Chef at the Five Star Michelin Rated kitchen at Spaghetti Factory. It was during the late seventies and early eighties that Chef Ricco became interested in concept of 'farm-to-table' dining. To his effect, he was one of the first in the Northeast to own and operate a fully organic farm and restaurant- 'Wild Harvest'. 

An avid traveller and connoisseur of world cuisines, Chef Ricco has travelled extensively in North and South America. But it was trip to India and Singapore that really captured his attention. Between 2004-2007, he spent time in the southern city of Thiruvananthapuram- a city renowned for its traditions and its food. Given the traditional nature of the society, Chef Ricco had to tailor the Italian menu for the Indian taste buds.

Specialties: Italian cuisine, Indian cuisine, Continental cuisine, American cuisine, multi-cuisines

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