Responsibilities include:

- Overseeing and maintaining the day-to-day operations of the Creative Department, including managing the in-house creative team and freelance contractors
- Overseeing all departmental projects from quoting to execution
- Writing and developing contracts for our freelancers
- Writing guidelines and checklists to assist with implementing best practices, and improving job flow and communication both internally and externally
- Developing and improving Creative Department processes internally between teams and externally with client liaison
- Writing proposals and researching the viability of new creative income streams from a resource, positioning and financial perspective
- Forging and maintaining good client-business relations and interdepartmental relations
- Brand development/roll out for all businesses under the TopInc umbrella and ensuring brand consistency across platforms
- Designing of high-end client projects from conceptualisation to completion
- Bridging marketing communication gaps between our service offerings and our customers
- Brainstorming marketing and campaign strategies for driving sales and showcasing service offerings

Kris513creative is the name that I freelance under. Areas that I offer services in are:
- layout design
- illustration
- photography
- painting
- writing

- designing of emailer layouts and emailer graphics
- designing of social media and blog post graphics
- designing and print production management of large-scale branded event material (eg. branded panels, canvases, vinyl decals, etc. used at conferences and various showcase events)
- designing of flyers
- designing of business cards
- designing of various large-scale promotional banners
- designing of company procedure and information manuals
- designing of any necessary signage in house and for use at events

- conceptualisation & creation of corporate and personalised coffee table-style photobooks
- assigning new design projects/tasks to other designers in the team
- managing production of photobooks and digital books from beginning to end
- meeting with clients and taking briefs
- designing and building book artwork into our digital publishing pics-to-books platforms
- creating and distributing digital books

Creating magazine layouts, advertorials, mailers and point-of-sale artwork. Assisting the Art Director with PDFing, image sourcing, image clean up, etc.

- brand conceptualisation and in-house design according to brand CI
- editing and preparing copy to be published online
- managing and pushing content on social networks
- constantly doing site maintenance
- sourcing images and illustrations and sometimes creating illustrations

Lecturing layout design using the Adobe InDesign programme and coaching students on the practicalities of life in a real media job environment as well as advising them with regarding to finding internships in the media industry

Capturing and archiving information and doing basic layout design
Reason for leaving: My internship was complete, but I was also not learning any new skills or improving my existing skills in Graphic Design based on the tasks they were giving me.

Learning everything about how to teach English as a foreign language (TEFL) to children, teens, and adults. Passed the course with an 89% aggregate.