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Business and Service Division

Bharat Desai
Bharat Desai
Team leader

Commercial Cookery and Bakery (Top End)

The Commercial Cookery and Bakery team offers courses in modern, European and Asian style cookery from certificate I to IV level, as well as both retail baking (bread) and retail baking (bread, cake and pastry) at certificate III level.

For students interested in studying a course that will provide the skills to work in a commercial kitchen, bakery or patisserie environment contact 8946 7526 for further information.

If you have a passion for cooking or baking CDU’s VET courses can offer you a pathway to a successful career in either of these industries.

These courses lead to skills that would help you to secure a job as:

  • Head chef
  • Second chef or Sous chef
  • Cooks
  • Kitchen hand
  • Baker/pastry cook
  • Bread baker

Courses delivered by the team:

Contact the team:

Team leader: Bharat Desai
Phone: 08 8946 7844
Email: bharat.desai@cdu.edu.au
 
Customer services officer: Tracey Worth
Phone: 08 8946 7526
Email: cookery_bakery@cdu.edu.au
 
Campus: Palmerston

Team members

T Y Lee Steve Sunk Robert Schwerdt Jason Wilkes
T Y Lee
Senior lecturer cookery; international and apprentice facilitator
Steve Sunk
Senior lecturer cookery; remote facilitator
Robert Schwerdt
Bakery facilitator
Jason Wilkes
Lecturer cookery; apprentice facilitator
Gerret Johnason David Barker Antonio Tjung

Gerret Johnason
VETiS facilitator

David Barker
Lecturer, bakery

Antonio Tjung
Lecturer, cookery

Rachelle Richardson

Lecturer cookery

Tracey Worth Rosaline Manning
Tracey Worth
Customer service officer
Cassandra Schwerdt - Assistant Technical Officer Rosaline Manning
Assistant technical officer

Minoushka Hesketh - Assistant Technical officer