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Ethan Carter

Southampton,Hampshire

Summary

Accomplished professional with extensive IT skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Micros, Simphony, Caterwide, POLAR, CRM, Gigya, Sabre, and NVS. Demonstrates strong leadership and time management abilities while excelling in financial planning and insurance decisions. Known for creativity and the ability to concisely manage multiple tasks. Adept at active listening and decision making.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Barista Maestro

Costa Coffee
Eastleigh, Hampshire
2025.06 - Current

● Delivering excellent customer service by providing great coffee and experience at every
stage of our customer journey.
● Selling products to clients by face-to-face interaction and gaining a full insight into their
expectations.
● Listening to customers, managing any requests or issues with genuine warmth and interest
● Financial responsibility of tills and safe, ensuring variances are minimal to reduce store risk
● When leading the shift, responsible for any complaints to be resolved efficiently and
effectively

● Direct communication within leadership for store development
● Conflict resolution due to escalations and complaints
● Delegation of tasks

● Reviewed banking operations, resulting in enhanced regulatory adherence.

Shift Leader

Caffe Nero
2024.12 - 2025.04
  • Delivering excellent customer service by providing great coffee and experience at every stage of our customer journey.
  • Selling products to clients by face-to-face interaction and gaining a full insight into their expectations.
  • Listening to customers, managing any requests or issues with genuine warmth and interest.
  • Financial responsibility of tills and safe, ensuring variances are minimal to reduce store risk.
  • When leading the shift, responsible for any complaints to be resolved efficiently and effectively.

Air Operations Coordinator

Regent Seven Seas Cruises (NCLH)
2022.02 - 2024.11
  • Actioning complex time changes and finding resolutions to appropriate flight times for the guests to meet their cruise.
  • Storing contracted cruise fares in partnership with airlines.
  • Investigate and escalate downgrades with the relevant airlines, and appropriately action any refunds the guest is eligible for.
  • Liaising with various departments to ensure all queries and concerns are addressed and resolved.
  • Direct ground transfers and ship contact to ensure transfers are appropriately reorganized for delayed flights.
  • OSI entries, vendor remarks and airline message understanding to ensure appropriate action is made.
  • Ensuring accuracy to minimize cost implications to the business.
  • Ability to find the best priced flights on free selected booking classes.
  • Ability to revalidate ticketed flight.
  • Critically quality checking flight and cruise reservations, ensuring bookings are in line with company policies.

Personal Cruise Advisor

Carnival UK Cunard
2021.06 - 2024.02
  • Ability to manage difficult conversations without leading into escalated approaches.
  • High revenue conversion and lead consisting of sales leading to conversion of bookings.
  • Strategic methods of ensuring and retaining bookings.
  • Strategic targets and objectives laid out by my line manager.
  • Data protection and data control of discretion between both guests, line managers and staff members.
  • Dynamic effect for multi-tasking for individual guests that contact the call center.
  • Effective communication to different departments creating a dynamic effect for communication for answers.
  • Enhancement, excitement, and anticipation of building the guest to the company product, leading to a close of sale.

Barista

Costa Coffee Coco Cola
2020.01 - 2021.09
  • Delivering excellent customer service by providing great coffee and experience at every stage of our customer journey.
  • Selling products to clients by face-to-face interaction and gaining a full insight into their expectations.
  • Listening to customers, managing any requests or issues with genuine warmth and interest.

Team Leader

Sprinkles Gelato
2019.09 - 2020.01
  • Managing the team and making sure everyone is aware of what they need to do.
  • Ownership of actions taken, not just by myself but also those of my team.
  • Direct communication within leadership for store development.
  • Conflict resolution due to escalations and complaints.
  • Delegation of tasks.

Business Development Specialist Level 1

Astute LTD
2018.07 - 2018.10
  • Achieving sales targets and objectives set by managers.
  • Database management and quality assurance.

Supervisor

Costa Coffee Whitbread
2016.04 - 2018.05
  • Delivering excellent customer service by providing great coffee and experience at every stage of our customer journey.
  • Selling products to clients by face-to-face interaction and gaining a full insight into their expectations.
  • Pre-empt problems before they arise and resolve promptly when they do.
  • Participating in promotional events and activities to increase exposure of the branch.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Tourism International Tourism Management with Placement

Solent Southampton
Southampton
2019.09 - 2023.07

A-Levels - Travel and Tourism

Bournemouth and Poole College
Bournemouth
2018.09 - 2019.07

Skills

  • IT skills (Microsoft Office, Outlook)
  • Micros
  • Simphony
  • Caterwide
  • POLAR, CRM, Gigya
  • Leadership
  • Time Management
  • Concision of multiple tasks
  • Financial Planning
  • Insurance decisions
  • Creativity
  • Active Listening
  • Decision Making
  • Sabre
  • NVS

Interests

I have been a competitive swimmer, which has helped me develop a good healthy active life, as I use to compete for a south-west club called West Dorset Swimming Club. I also use to volunteer for a local radio show at the local hospital, where the patients could call up to the studio so they can make requests for their loved ones.

Timeline

Barista Maestro

Costa Coffee
2025.06 - Current

Shift Leader

Caffe Nero
2024.12 - 2025.04

Air Operations Coordinator

Regent Seven Seas Cruises (NCLH)
2022.02 - 2024.11

Personal Cruise Advisor

Carnival UK Cunard
2021.06 - 2024.02

Barista

Costa Coffee Coco Cola
2020.01 - 2021.09

Bachelor of Science - Tourism International Tourism Management with Placement

Solent Southampton
2019.09 - 2023.07

Team Leader

Sprinkles Gelato
2019.09 - 2020.01

A-Levels - Travel and Tourism

Bournemouth and Poole College
2018.09 - 2019.07

Business Development Specialist Level 1

Astute LTD
2018.07 - 2018.10

Supervisor

Costa Coffee Whitbread
2016.04 - 2018.05
Ethan Carter