Kitchen Ninja

       I started at Oregon Culinary Institute (O.C.I) in July of 2012. I found the school through a lot of research that was done from my desk while I was working in Phoenix. After working in management in customer service for such a long time, I stumbled back to a passion I almost explored leaving High School in the first place. 

       I moved to Portland, OR to become a Kitchen Ninja. I looked into a lot of different schools, exploring some of the local Phoenix schools, but I couldn't find what looked like a good fit and good investment for me. I had expressed to some friends of mine and my fiance that I wanted to move to Portland because it seemed like a cool place to live. Putting these two things together I decided to start looking for schools there and stumbled upon O.C.I.

       Not only was I impressed by the web presence but when I made it into the statistics of the school I was able to find that they had a great placement upon graduation. I signed up for school before I ever got the chance to tour it.

       This is where my experience really began though; once I got to the school and toured I was very surprised by the professionalism of every person that I dealt with and by the second time that I came in people there already knew me by name. I was sold!

 

       After 8 months in I have had a great experience learning what I have so far, with so much more to learn. I know that the craft I have chosen is an ever-changing world that I am more than willing to experience and grow with. I love food, and I love trying new things with it, even if I fail, I know I learned from it and won't repeat the same mistake.