David Creel Cano ************@**********.***
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Extensive hands-on experience in a variety of functions requiring teamwork and organizational leadership.
Adaptable to any number of unique office/team/creative employment scenarios, analyzing and finding creative
solutions for the task at hand. Perceptive in understanding the needs of a business, organization or individual
assignment. Demonstrated intuitive and creative problem-solving abilities while maintaining strict attention to detail.
EXPERIENCE
Production Associate, Praters Flooring, Rossville, GA - June - October, 2023
Driver, Uber Technologies, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia - April - October, 2022
Driver, Lyft, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia - February and March, 2022
Cashier, home delivery, returns, IKEA, Tampa, Florida - 2016-2021
Cashier, front end assistant, Winn-Dixie, Tampa, Florida - 2015-2017
Duties included ringing up groceries, price checks, returning temperature sensitive perishables and “go-backs” to
originating departments, troubleshooting cashiers problems, answering customer inquiries, bagging groceries,
maintained a clean and orderly work station.
3rd shift cashier associate, 7-Eleven, Tampa, Florida - 2013-2015
Cleaned appliances and equipment for the following business days’ use. Processed customer purchases, lottery
and money orders. Maintained freshly brewed coffee, stocked shelves, processed and distributed incoming
deliveries, stocked beverages and baked goods, made food to order, kept hot food case freshly stocked.
Senior survey worker, University of California, Berkeley - 2010-2012
Screened and scheduled union/former union mechanics, machinists and body and fender workers for the Bay Area
Solvent Study (School of Public Health). Tasks included filing, data entry and participant case file preparation.
Bilingual interviewer, Quantum Market Research Inc., Oakland, California - 2010-2011
Screened and interviewed focus group respondents in English and Spanish for data collection. Research clients
included academic, healthcare, government, non-profit and corporate clientele.
Picture framer, Michaels Arts and Crafts, Austin, Texas - 2009-2010
Guided customers with custom framing preferences, processed orders and entered data for framing, assembled
materials and artwork for finished items.
Staffing coordinator, Taste America Catering, Chicago, Illinois - 2007-2008
Staffed corporate and private events and weddings. In charge of tallying bi-weekly payroll, addressed and directed
employee grievances. Processed and distributed catering menus. Employed catering staff, communicated event
updates to employees, aided drivers with catered deliveries, analyzed and implemented liquor requisitions. Synced
event information with other department managers.
Interior artist, handyman, Cosmic Cafe, Austin, Texas - 2005-2006
Presented and executed ideas along with other artists. Made repairs and aesthetic changes and improvements.
Creative Director, Spazio Interiors, Austin, Texas - 2003-2005
Placed artwork and furniture in showroom vignettes. Supervised shipment deliveries into warehouse. Managed
warehouse storage, delivered and assembled furniture for both showroom and clients.
Artist assistant, Andre Miripolsky - painter, sculptor, graphic artist, Los Angeles, California - 2000-2001
Art handler, courier, ZVO Inc, Los Angeles, California - 2000-2001
Transported artwork and electric bicycles to New York for “Future Shocked” exhibition on Madison Avenue.
Signage and prop maker, Bob Gail-The Main
Event, Los Angeles, California - 1999-2000
Freelance art director’s assistant, art production assistant, Los Angeles, California - 1999-2002
Short films; Angels Baby!, Hanky Code and
Zombie Rights. Worked with film director, art director during pre-
production and actual shooting days with aesthetic choices, set design and implementation. Managed props.
Museum exhibitions preparer/technician, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, Texas - 1994-1998
Prepared rare and archival objects ie photographs, books, sculpture, paintings, and ephemera as prescribed by
curators and conservators for public exhibitions. Crated items for transport and shipping, fashioned artifact-specific
cradles, accompanied and installed traveling exhibitions, created exhibition graphics.
Freelance graphic artist, Dobie Theaters, Austin, Texas - 1993
Designed and built visual awareness/impact displays for film festivals.
Art director, artist, Tower Records, Austin, Texas - 1990-1993
Headed visualization and execution of recording artist display boards ranging in size from 2 1/2 ft by 4 ft to 8 ft by
8 ft. Created displays based on themes prompted by the main advertising department directives, managed art
department functions and supervised all related activities requiring artistic input.
EDUCATION
University of Texas at Austin - Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, 1991
INTERESTS AND ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT
Lecturer
Seventh International Congress of the Spanish Association on Semiotics, Zaragoza, Spain. ‘Apocalypse and the
Human Spirit: Arkangel [sic] As A Revised Modern Myth,’ Special Myths and Cinema category.
First World Congress for Universalism, Warsaw, Poland. ‘Art and Universalism.’ Presented slides of personal work in
relation to potential graphic art. 1992
Set designer, property master
Federico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma, University of Texas at Austin. Conceptualized and realized all aspects of the set for
the three-act tragic poem. 1992