Terry Davis

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Pompano Beach, Florida 33062

954-***-**** (home) 954-***-**** (cell)

Email: ad0otw@r.postjobfree.com

Work Experience:

August, 2021 - Present. The Parker Playhouse. Guest Services Supervisor Run Front of House for an historic theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, an affiliate theater for the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Schedule and train over 200 volunteers. Set up lobbies pre-show and write all post show reports. Oversee box office, food and beverage, and security team. Interface with Production, Marketing, etc. Order supplies. Provide snacks for volunteers. Run FOH office. Handle special events, including photographing guests at Meet & Greets, archiving images and writing copy for social media. Sept., 2017-March, 2020 Encore Consignment, Los Olas Consignment Manager In charge of Consignment Department for large, upscale consignment store. Researched and priced items for consignment. Photographed well over 100 items per day. Wrote copy for website. Listed items on several web stores including our own site, e-bay and others. Supervised three full time Consignment Specialists. Made appointments, arranged scheduling with consignors and two truck teams, wrote contracts and itemized price lists, answered emails, controlled flow of traffic in consignment office. Extensive customer contact. Handled payroll. Type 55 wpm. Reported directly to owners of the company. Increased sales by tracking items in the 90 day column and revising priorities of items to be consigned and those not to be consigned.

March, 2007 – August, 2017 Isle Casino & Racing Main Banker/Cage Supervisor Worked in Cash Operations (Cage) for successful casino from before the building was finished and continued for the next ten years . Verified and recorded all cash funds in all areas of operations, including vault, count room, main cage, poker cage, mutuels, food & beverage, etc. Prepared and submitted daily “Settlement Sheet” that went to revenue audit department and our corporate office. Complied with all state and federal regulations as well as company SOPs. Responsible for finding variances in most departments and reporting findings. Worked closely with management, security, surveillance and other departments. Prior to opening, reviewed and rewrote SOPs to conform to State of Florida gaming laws. Trained new hires in a variety of issues, including alcohol awareness, continuous service improvement, cash handling, counting chips, proper clearing of hands, and compliance with company rules. Taught and certified employees in Title 31, Suspicious Activity Reports, Multiple Transaction Logs and other mandatory reports.

June, 1980 – Jan., 2007 Modernage Photographic Services, New York City Printer/Sales, etc. Worked for over twenty years doing “Darkroom” (no longer exists). Developed film, printed contact sheets, made work prints & finished prints as well as enlargements and doing hand retouching for a number of famous photographers including Richard Avedon, Francessco Scavullo, Annie Liebovitz and Steven Klein. Transitioned into sales with the advent of digital photography (a financial necessity). Began with only 6 clients and worked my way up to having a client list of over 150 photographers, art departments and Fortune 500 companies. Clients included Vogue Magazine, NBC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and many, many others. Education:

B. A. English/Liberal Arts New York University, New York, New York M.F.A. Art & Design New York, New York, New York

Certificate in PhotoShop, Quark & Illustrator, The Apple School, NYC Special Interests and Achievements:

Author of five novels. Winner of several awards including the Mark Twain Award for Story Telling.

Chairman, Public Art Committee for over ten years, Pompano Beach, Florida. Retouched and restored photographs for several important collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art photo archive, the City of New York Special Archive, and others. Did darkroom and retouching for dozens of magazine covers including Vogue Magazine. Black belt in kempo karate.

Proficient in a number of computer programs including POS, Word, Excel and more. Worked P/T for almost two years at LeatherWerks in Wilton Manors as a copywriter. Wrote weekly newsletter, ad copy, text for website and all social media posts.