Nick Kratz

• Creating trend driven digital artwork
• Managing a staff of graphic designers
• Working with art licensors to create strong relationships
• Managing the art library, legal documentation and agreements
• Working closely with freelance artist to ensure quality and punctuality
• Researching trends and available options for company expansion
• Working closely with the Director of Marketing to produce product lines and accurate budgets
• Speaking with clients to ensure quality and expectations are met
• Working closely with factories in both China and India
• Producing products for a new company to increase company value to over $15 Million.
• Developing an art library to support growing needs.
• Creating production files
• Creating numbering structures for products to better ensure an accurate account of products developed and artwork location

• Discovering new avenues of growth through market research.
• Expanding the Creative Teams' allowed duties to include the development of "in-house" electronically drawn artwork.
• Providing creative direction to coworkers.
• Examining press-proofs for quality control while working with both press operators and die makers.
• Assisting with production duties when needed.
• Preflighting my own designs. Allowing the prepress department to focus on other deadlines while providing my department with an alternative to product shipping late.
• Photographing product when the company photographer is unable to do so.
• Assisting the All Occasion Art Director with committees to assure accuracy in released files.
• Instructing artists in many uses of Photoshop to increase production and efficiency throughout the entire company.

• Managing a staff of two graphic designers.
• Developing various marketing pieces while following the firection of the Creative Director.
• Working closely with production department to produce the highest quality product available.
• Interacting with clients to ensure their satisfaction.
• Troubleshooting and maintaining each artists' computer.