Kionee Brits

Creative Professional with Experience in the field of Creative Design, Animation and Stylization, Planning, Managing and Sourcing of Artistic Projects.

+27 74 262 7917    Johannesburg, SA     [email protected]   LinkedIn

Knowledge and Skills

  • Excellent Communication & Public Relations
  • Development through Completion of Projects
  • Problem Solving
  • Visual Literacy & Design
  • Management & Organization


  • Target Driven
  • Public Engagement
  • Computer Literacy & Programming
  • Self-Motivated
  • Active Learning
  • Content Production


  • Digital Marketing
  • Media Design and Production
  • Design Software
  • CRM Software
  • Project Management Software
  • Statistic and Analytical Research
  • Training and Education

Work Experience


Graphic Designer and Social Media Marketer

Xodus Holdings

November 2020 - Present
Gauteng, South Africa

  • Upgraded operational workflows and own project management including training of interns and other employees on industry standard software utilization (Hubspot CRM, Sketch, InVision, Adobe Creative Suite, CorelDraw) in order to increase productivity and functionality through 8 independent sister companies.
  • Researched industry trends to utilize effective SEO Optimization, Social Media Marketing and Community Management to increase profits by 80% over 3 months.
  • Coordinate the development and agreement to business measures to enable effective implementation of business plan and monitoring of performance.against business plan and to recommend corrective action to ensure attainment of business objectives agreed upon. 
  • Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards to take ownership of brand/s CI & evolve visual identity where necessary.
  • Translate product positioning, existing research, and offline/online Marketing Strategies into effective designs to create and maintain brand promotions and content campaigns across several different social media networks.
  • Create digital assets for web, social media platforms and emerging technologies;Designed Company Profiles and Stationary, Digital Marketing, Print Media & Products.
  • Present and defend design decisions in key milestone reviews with peers and executive level stakeholders
  • Drive the overall quality of the creative product whilst maintaining accountability to client objectives
  • Establish a culture where powerful advertising combines with creativity and quality.

Creative Manager

- Eutierria

January 2020 - September 2020
Gauteng, South Africa

  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
  • Fostered highly communicative, collaborative team culture on all visual product projects.
  • Created storyboards, 3D models, animation, and visual effects to meet design goals.
  • Managed all art and office supply needs for the art department.
  • Designed visual models meeting both aesthetic and technical criteria.
  • Wrote and edited high-quality content and visually impactful programs under deadline pressure with an exciting, captivating, and authentic approach.

Social Media and Marketing Specialist

Tree of Life

November 2019 - July 2020
Gauteng, South Africa

*Covid-19 Retrenchment

  • Responsible for updating the company’s online marketing status through brand stylizing, digital presence and marketing statistics and advertising
  • Scheduled appointments for staff and clients participated in conferences and ensure quality customer satisfaction.
  • Tasked with stock control, travel arrangements and correspondence between staff and clients.
  • Creation and Implementation of an art curriculum throughout the school, through the exposure and experimentation of multiple artistic mediums.
  • Responsible for the planning of daily lessons in accordance with the students’ curriculum.
  • Upkeep of a visually stimulating environment and learning aids.


In-Store and Mechanizing Supervisor

Alpha Pharmacy

September 2017 - February 2018
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

* 1-year Maternity Leave 2/2018 - 2/2019

  • Scheduling of staff timetable and resolving inter staff disputes.
  • Supervision of telephonic orders and the dispatching of medication and stock via delivery.
  • Responsible for merchandisers and stock control.
  • Liaise with supply representatives to manage ordering and replenishment of stock.
  • Interact with clientele on consumer-related queries professionally and ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Supervised and facilitated over financial transactions, including balance and cash-ups.

Program Coordinator

GreenMAP

September 2015 - March 2017
Vermont, USA

  • Planned and facilitated backcountry camping, hiking, skiing, kayaking, and canoeing student expeditions.
  • Designed promotional materials and handled all paperwork, gear rental and equipment maintenance
  • Tasked with display/merchandising and stock control.
  • Responsible for correspondence of queries related topics through electronic/onsite/telephonic means.
  • Responsible for updating the company’s online marketing status through brand stylizing, digital presence and marketing statistics and advertising
  • Scheduling of staff timetable and resolving inter staff disputes.
  • Supervision of telephonic bookings and associated equipment.
  • Manage repairing and maintenance of outdoor equipment.
  • Supervised and facilitated over financial transactions, including balance and cash-ups

Administrator

Green Mountain College

March 2016 - September 2016
Vermont, USA

  • Tasked with graphic design and illustration of promotional and advertising materials across multiple mediums (digital/billboard/social media/brochure).
  • Processed and catalogued incoming student data applications and entered into data management software.
  • Evaluated student housing placement applications and created appropriate personality matches.
  • Responsible for correspondence of queries related topics through electronic/onsite/telephonic means.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.- Soichiro Honda

Education

Kings College London

Buisness Management  •  2021

  • Introduction to management and leadership styles.
  • Managing money and key financial concepts, including the implications of various sources of finance and the relative importance of cash flow and profit.
  • Managing people, stakeholder management and professional communication
  • Managing Information: different information types and key information management issues. The roles businesses play in the lives of people and communities, and social responsibility. Aspects of growth and the effects of success.

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS AND INSTITUTE OF CODING

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS AT WORK  •  2021

  • Identifying your personal communications style
  • Exploring different communication platforms
  • Exploring your approach to communication
  • Applying your communication style in the workplace
  • Managing challenging conversations with positive outcomes
  • Demonstrating your communication skills

RMIT UNIVERSITY

BUSINESS FUTURES: SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS THROUGH GREEN HR  •  2021

  • What is green HR and how relevant is it to organisations becoming sustainable
  • The nature of sustainability including internal and external drivers toward change and barriers inhibiting change to show the nature of the organisational mindset required to acknowledge the need to move toward sustainability and beyond compliance
  • Sustainable return on investment (S-ROI) and

    ‘Triple top line’ (TTL) to demonstrate how sustainability gains can be measured and valued by the business

  • The role of HR in corporate human sustainability to show operational functions for sustainability within the business including networking and green rewards

  • Human sustainability to understand the importance of human capital and being inclusive of all stakeholders

  • Ecological sustainability to distinguish between green practices and organisation-wide sustainability and show how leadership is required to go beyond rhetoric and provide transparency

MSI - Mangement & Strategy Institute

Management & Supervisor  •  2021

  • Learn the basics of managing people and what it takes to lead others.  
  • Managers are responsible for the daily operations of departments and the people within them. 
  •  Managers must have an understanding of every aspect of the departments they lead.

Project Management Essentials Certified •  2021

  • How a business project is defined 
  • What steps are taken to ensure the projects goals are achieved

OHSC - Oxford Home Study Centre

Project Management 2021

  • Introduction to Project Management
  • Role of the Project Manager 
  • The Project Life Cycle

Human Reasources Manaagement •  2021

  • Introduction to HR Management  
  • Recruitment and Selection      
  • Staff Training and Development

Digital Marketing & Internet Markting 2021

  • What is Internet Marketing?
  • Popular Strategies
  • Web Design and Development
  • Affiliate Programs
  • E-mail Marketing
  • Using Social Media
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Business Manaagement •  2021

  • The Business Environment 
  • What is HR Management? 
  • Introduction to Performance Management       
  • Introduction to Marketing

EITCI – European Information Technologies Certification Institute

Computer Graphics Programme  •  2020 - 2020

  • Desktop Publishing Software: Adobe InDesign, Designing, Desktop Publishing, Digital Print, DTP, Layout, Publication, Typography
  • Vector Graphics processing software: Adobe Illustrator, Curves, Layers, Shapes, Transformation, Vector Graphics.
  • Raster Graphics processing: Adobe Photoshop, Bitmap, Histogram, Images retouching, Pixels.
  • Interactive Animation and graphics design: Action Script, Adobe Flash, Animation.
  • 3D Graphics Design and Visualization - Intermediate: 3D Graphics, 3D Modelling, Blender, Computer Graphics, Billboard Visualization
  • 3D Graphics design and Visualization – Advanced: Python Scripting, High Dynamic Range Imaging, Nodes, Advanced Rending Cycles, Advanced Animation, IPA, NLA Windows and Editor, Advanced game engine techniques
  • Web pages design fundamentals: Adobe Dreamweaver, Website Structure, Local Root Folders, Site Files Organization, Web Design, Cascade Style Sheets, Audio To Web, Web Typography, Fluid Grid Layouts, Testing And Publishing Projects.
  • 3D graphics design and visualization software: Sketch up, Google earth: Model Settings And Managers, Materials, Components, Styles, Browsers, Scene Manager, Ruby Plug-Ins, Tools: Drawing, Construction, Modification, 3D Text, Camera, Solid And Walkthrough Tools.
  • Raster Graphics processing: GIMP, Tools: Gradient, Crop, Selection (Rectangle, Ellipse, Free, Fuzzy); Editing: Layers, Paths, Channels, Decompose, Colour and Curve Tools. Filters; Blur, Enhance, Script, Fractal, Explore. Noise Filtering. Coherent Fourier analysis.

Mindluster

Operations Management Graduate MBA  •  2021

  • Introduction to Operations Management
  • Competitivness Strategy and Productivity
  • Forecasting
  • Product and service design
  • Stratigic capacity planning fo rproducts and services
  • Process selection and facity layout
  • Work design and measurment
  • Location planning and analysis
  • Management of quality
  • Quality control
  • Aggregate planning
  • MRP ERP
  • inventory management
  • JIT lean maintenance
  • Supply chain managemnt
  • Scheduling
  • Project management
  • Managemnt of waiting lines

Green Mountain College

Fine Arts, Education, Anthropology  •  2014 - 2017

  • Images of Nature ELA 1000
    The study of how human societies make sense of the natural world, ranging from folklore and poetry to environmental philosophy and natural science, and develop a sense of how culture determines our understanding of our environment
  • Dimensions of Nature ELA 2000
    This course focuses on the development of scientific thought as humans endeavoured to understand the structure, origin, and character of the natural world, how the process of science has evolved from Aristotle and Euclid to Darwin, Watson and Crick and chaos theory in mathematics.
  • Natural Science Illustration ELA 2035
    Natural science illustration seeks the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. Exploring the practical application of interpretative, artistic, qualitative, and quantitative skills to the representation of the natural world in both informal and formal media. Such studies lead directly to the rationale for inclusion in a given taxonomic classification.
  • World History & the Environment ELA 1057
    Examining the relationship between human history and the environment, how the environment has affected human societies, how the development of human civilization has impacted the environment, and how human attitudes towards the environment have formed and changed over time.
  • This Sacred Earth: Spirituality and the Natural World ELA 1061
    Studying the various ways in which people and cultures approach the earth and the natural world from a spiritual perspective and practices, drawing from different religious traditions and the personal insights.
  • Data Analysis and Modeling NRM 2020
    Building competency in quantitative skills, in the field of natural resources management. Using descriptive and inferential statistical tests, with addition to managing data sets to solve applied problems, as well as acquiring data to model natural and social systems.
  • Cultural Anthropology SOC 1002
    Using anthropological perspectives to explore the concept of language, culture and the construction of race. Using a psychological or cognitive perspective to examine how culture helps form meaningful identities, memories, symbols, rituals, and senses of place.
  • Introduction to Drawing ART 1001
    Field-based introduction through observational drawing. Landscape, constructed forms, and natural forms, basis for developing observational skills while providing a foundation for personal imagery.
  • Figure Drawing ART 1002
    Understanding of the human figure, its anatomy and underlying structure. Using the figure as a means to develop observational skills and personal imagery.
  • Foundations in Studio Art ART 1015
    Elements of Design and Composition, exploring creative possibilities in multiple media areas. Using 2-D and 3-D design in creative challenges geared toward understanding the elements of art and art-making.
  • Introduction to Painting ART 2021
    The basic elements of oil painting. Focus on the technical requirements; investigate elements of colour theory, composition, and conceptual content.
  • Ceramics I: Hand-building ART 2037
    Technical and aesthetic skill development through clay-working techniques such as pinch, coil, and slab. Using Firing methods such as the use of electric, gas, pit, and raku kilns through studio work, and a historical overview.
  • Ceramics II: Wheel Throwing ART 3015
    Throwing techniques and forms, glaze development from raw materials and efficient processes of firing electric and gas kilns.
  • Art History I-II: Palaeolithic Dada ART 2001 – 2002
    A survey of world architecture, sculpture, painting and applied arts from Paleolithic through Dada and into the 20th Century.
  • Teacher as Decision Maker EDU 1062
    Examining some of the multitude of decisions teachers consciously and/or make unconsciously that affect students’ lives within the larger social context. Including the usage of techniques and strategies used by PreK-12 teachers.
  • Early Field Experience EDU 2000
    Involvement in a secondary education classroom or other educational setting. Working with a cooperating host teacher, observing and participating in daily classroom activities and duties. Assisting in preparing lesson plans or materials, and work with students one-on-one, in small groups, or whole class activities.
  • Developmental Psychology II: Adolescence to Adulthood EDU 2018
    Tracing the development of the human being from the onset of adolescence to its completion in the late teen years. Theories regarding the development of prosaically and antisocial behaviours, gender identity, depression and suicide, effects of puberty, bullying.
  • The Exceptional Child EDU 2019
    The study of major categories of exceptionality which the practising special education teacher will encounter. These include cognitive disabilities, autism, learning disabilities, behavioural/emotional disorders and physical disabilities. Legal bases for the education of these children, including Federal court decisions and legislation and understanding procedures for educating exceptional children.
  • Human Development I- II: Infancy through Later Adulthood PSY 2041 - 2042
    Understanding the physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and personality development of the child from the prenatal through later adulthood periods with a focus on major theoretical perspectives and current research in the field.

Career Advancement


School of the Art Insitute of Chicago

Masters of Fine Arts


Arizona State University

Global Business Leadership and Management


EITCA

Business Management Academy 

Certificates & Qualifications

EITCA

3D Animation/Graphic/Web Design Certificates

Green Mountain College

BA in Interdisciplinary Studies

Udemy

Multiple courses on a wide variety of subjects. 

Oxford HSC

  • Project Management
  • Business Management
  • Digital & Social Media Marketing

Kings College London

Buisness Management  

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS AND INSTITUTE OF CODING

COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS AT WORK 

RMIT UNIVERSITY

BUSINESS FUTURES: SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS THROUGH GREEN HR 

MSI - Management & Strategy Institute

  • Project Management
  • Management & Supervisor

Bond UNIVERSITY

DATA ANALYTICS FOR DECISION MAKING

Master of Projects Academy

  • Project Management
  • Business Management
  • Digital & Social Media Marketing

Mindluster

  • Operations Management
  • Quantitive Methods of Business Decision Making
  • Leading Teams
  • Leading Organisaztions

 

FutureLearn

Multiple courses on a wide variety of subjects. 

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Location

Currently, Located in Johannesburg, South Africa for the close relation between city and countryside. Though I am willing to relocate both countrywide and internationally. My ability to work remotely is accentuated by my history of freelance work. I look forward to location-independent opportunities.

Many people tell me that I am an old soul/mature beyond my years... and with many hobbies and interests extending to cultural anthropology, holistic medicine and fine arts, I can see why.

Though, one might add a hint of weirdness to the mix.