Michael Masha

With over 4 years of experience across various sectors – including hospitality and private catering to videography – I bring a versatile and dynamic skill set to every project I take on.

I am passionate about creating exceptional guest experiences, whether it's in a fast-paced restaurant environment or postproduction video work, crafting visually compelling stories that leave a lasting impact. I thrive in high-energy settings, where teamwork, creativity, and attention to detail make all the difference. Despite this, my works in videography have honed my capacity to persevere completely by myself.

M&S Food Hall Customer Assistant, Kate Thomas

December 2019 - January 2020 | London

• Committed to schedule and also flexible in accommodating others' hours over a busy holiday period.
• Organised and displayed stock according to specific layout details. 

Pink Ginger Catering Staff, Alison Carman

January 2020 - April 2020

• Prepared hors d'oeuvres in advance of guests' attendance.
• Constantly attentive under pressure, without break, providing amicable table service.
• Arranged and refilled guests upon request.

Freelance Video Editor

June 2021 - Present

• Hobbyist videographer, receiving multiple favourable comments upon satisfying service and products. 
• Worked with customers of varying cultures and actualised their key ideas into impressive content. 
• Developed self taught time management, ensuring client’s orders were completed on time. 

Tenshi Waiter, Joe Mossman

March 2022 - September 2022, May 2023 - September 2023, July 2024 - Current

• I greeted, seated and served customers amongst our 28 table restaurant.
• Kitchen experience: frying karaage, garnishing; constructing uramaki sushi rolls.
• Recorded our health and safety standards on a rotating schedule.
• Within a month I was entrusted with the responsibility of showing new employees their duties; praised by coworkers who’d worked there longer than I for being a fast learner.
• Regularly broomed and mopped both floors of the front-of-house and bathrooms.
• Achieved familiarity with basic Japanese phrases, with most regular customers speaking Japanese exclusively. Presently teaching myself Japanese to pursue JLPT certificates.
• I suggested a way for our restaurant to recycle more of our (customers’) waste, which was soon implemented.
• Learned earnt two menus - lunch and dinner time - and familiarised myself with the names and tastes of traditional Japanese foods, sake, fruit wines and whiskeys as to tailor recommendations to customers.

Wetherspoons Bar Associate, Rob Churly

September 2024 - Current

• Serve both in person bar drinks and ‘internet orders’ in our regularly bustling bar which hosts upwards of 200 tables.
• Check and clean the bathroom on the hour every hour.
• Quickly trusted to do till work and money counts at the end of shift, despite not yet being a Shift Manager.
• Within two shifts I learned the layout of the 224 tables over 2 floors as to reset them after every shift.

Highgate School — GCSEs
English Literature - 8
English Language - B
English Language - 9
Economics - B
French - 7
Philosophy - B
Religious Studies - 9
Mathematics - 6
Science (Double Award) - A, A
History - 7
Drama - 6

Highgate School – A Levels

English Language - B
Economics - B
Philosophy - B
[Projected A, A, A; exams not taken in context of COVID]