Daily Archives: September 10, 2011

Tiziana Sacco, known by her friends and family as Tizi, is an aspiring make-up artist, event planner, entrepreneur, and hospitality manager.  She is assertive, attentive, charming, skillful, considerate, and an expedient learner.  Tizi was born in Manhattan, New York to Ecuadorian and Uruguayan parents.  She was raised in Montevideo, Uruguay until the age of seven, where she was brought back to New York to live with her mother and two sisters.  During her time in Uruguay, her aunt Adriana (affectionately called La Maina) left a profound impact on the young Tizi, instilling her with the drive to achieve her hopes and dreams.  Tizi has work experience in various positions in hotels, ballrooms, and restaurants since the age of fifteen.  Her former places of employment include, The Double Tree Metropolitan Hotel, Botteglia del Vino, and Michael Jordan Steak House (to name a few), however, her most memorable position was in the Edison Ballroom, once known as the Supper Club in Time Square.  Various events were hosted and celebrated during her time there which ranged from bar mitzvahs, fashion shows, after parties, corporate holiday parties, and celebrity birthdays.  It was there where she discovered the glamorous and animated atmosphere kindled her passion for event planning and a future career in hospitality management.  In addition to working as a banquet manager and event planner at a notable ballroom, catering hall, or lounge, Tizi would also one day like to become a special effects make-up artist.  She would like to create her own make up brand or event planning company in the New York tri-state area.  Tizi has a deep love of distinct cultures and languages.  In addition to English, she speaks Spanish fluently and has sparse knowledge of Italian and Sign Language.  She anticipates that the experience she gains at New York City Tech will enable her to realize her goals. 

    Ginette Castillo, but people also call her Ginie or Gee. She was born and raised in the Bronx and is currently 18 years old. She graduated The Bronx Guild High School (Inside Stevenson High School) with a GPA of about 3.7. She was able to attend different types of internships while attending The Bronx Guild. Being in this school she was able to know what she wanted to major in college which is cooking and baking. She has had internship’s in places like Marc Ecko, Columbia University, a dentist, donors choose, a Mexican/American restaurant, a chef in a senior center and so forth. The job she loved the most was working in William Hudson Senior Center with a very good chef. He taught her a lot and brought her more into enjoying the culinary world. She has had a passion of learning to cook and bake but it just hasn’t come clear in her mind and she’s determined to learn in college. Her reason for attending NYC College of Technology is because it was the closet and only school in New York that had cooking/baking together and she’s hoping that this is the school that will help her react her goal of being a great chef and baker. Besides being passionate in culinary; she loves to play softball, travel, hang out, attend Yankee and Mets games when she can and bake cakes on her spare time. Her greatest accomplishment has to be graduating high school and getting everything done early however something she looks back on was not graduating her third year of high school because of stupid reasons, but at least she was able to do all the senior actives like she wanted. She got to learn though that something’s happen for a reason and people learn from their own mistake. She’s very shy but when she gets to know you she will come out of her comfort zone and you will get to see how cool and real she can be. Whenever you see her around say hi and get to know her, she won’t bit =)

Born and raised in Flushing Queens, Yu-On Chui is an optimistic young man who looks forward to his education at NYCCT with a positive attitude.  He majors in Hospitality Management. Though he has only worked with children all his life at a daycare, he is convinced that he will want to spend the rest of his career helping people with a smile. He believes he is extremely lucky to be raised by a Asian oriented family who’s been able to adapt to the American lifestyle. He has also traveled all across Asia in countries such as Japan, China, Hong Kong and Macau. Yu-On greatly appreciates and enjoys all the cultures he’s been able to surround himself with. He is always eager and curious to enrich himself with something new and believes that majoring in the field of Hospitality Management would present many opportunities for him to do so. Unsure where his end destination might lead him he believes that he would want nothing more than to have a career in the Hospitality Industry.