Tom Giglio

About Tom Giglio

I can remember cooking (or at least assisting with the cooking) when I was barely tall enough to see over our kitchen stove. When someone would ask me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I would always answer “a Chef.”It was this passion for cooking that led me to attend culinary school. There I acquired my knife skills, learned how to make a perfect Crème Brule, and even how to wash pots and pans (but don’t tell my wife). Even though I never made it to Food Network stardom, I did, however, work for many years at various well renowned country clubs, restaurants and caterers. I sharpened (pun intended) my skills from school and applied them to all facets of the restaurant business, and finally zoned in on baking. I switched gears and went from the hustle and bustle of the kitchen life and leaped into the early morning hours of the baking business. It was there that I found my passion for decorating wedding cakes and the intricate, delicate pastries.I was finally doing what I loved as a Pastry Chef for a company I loved when they decided to focus all efforts on their frozen bread line and cut the pastry division. I was asked to stay on and develop the company’s Quality Department. Armed with nothing but a tape measure, scale, and camera, I put the pastry bag down, and I took on the challenge. 12 years later, I have successfully led that company, as well as two others, with exceedingly successful Quality Systems Departments. Achieving high outcome, various 3rd Party Audits, customer audits, not to mention 2 years of SQF certification, are just some of my proudest moments that I accomplished before finally before moving on to the role of Operations Manager.Why the move from Quality to Operations? I felt that it was time to give more to a company and expand on the other knowledge that I developed over the years outside of quality. My strengths lie in employee relations, motivation, processing, project management, and a host of other attributes.

Experience

1. VP of Operations

   Jimmy's Gourmet Bakery

   Jul 2020 — Present

Education

• Hudson County Community College

  Associates, Culinary Arts

  1995 — 1997

Skills

• Food Processing
• Ingredients
• Food Industry
• Food Technology
• Sensory Evaluation
• Sqf
• Culinary Skills
• Food Manufacturing
• Baking
• Brc
• Hygiene
• Food
• Pastry
• Food Quality
• Bakery
• Gmp
• Haccp
• Food Science
• Quality Auditing
• Sanitation
• Quality Management
• Food Safety
• Quality System
• Frozen Food
• Bread
• Cooking
• Quality Assurance