Rob Hicks Email & Phone Number

United States

Provide design leadership, oversight, and mentorship of the Graphic, Branding, and Visualization team. Build strong relationships internally, with new and existing customers, and promote Tena's brand and capabilities. Work closely with many aspects of Tena business - creating proposals for consulting projects, leading customer facing branding programs, driving internal initiatives for updated marketing and social media collateral, as well as executing deliverables for Re:Build HQ Marketing. Responsible for managing the top line consulting and intercompany revenue.

United States

3400 Tech Circle, Kalamazoo, Mi 49008

Providing design leadership and oversight in the development and creation of assets, including print, web, digital-storytelling, advertising, and other collateral.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Identity, brand strategy, package design, web design, photography and video. Design Twenty3 (D23) — Design that communicates.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Student Mentor at KIDS HOPE USA. Providing love and guidance to an at-risk student. Just seeing my student's eyes light up when I walk through the door, makes my day.

524 E Milham Ave, Portage, Mi 49002

Hopefully making a difference in peoples lives that are in need of emegency blood.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Leading and directing creative staff in the production of all branding, packaging and marketing collateral; ensuring all visual communication standards are met across various media; meeting with clients or upper management to explain branding strategies and solutions. I have nearly 18 years of design experience, including over 12 years of management, people and process leadership, communication, project management, problem solving, art direction, design and production skills.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for establishing and maintaining budgets on all client projects; monitoring and reviewing all projects from a branding communication, design and implementation perspective; participating in creative sessions, developing concepts and pencil roughs/comprehensives; presenting creative concepts and design directions to clients when necessary with the account managers and/or principals; art direction of photography and illustration; always trying to improve client vendor communication to ensure on time delivery and quality; attend press approvals when applicable.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for developing concepts, participating in creative sessions, designing and implementing pencil roughs/comprehensives for client projects; art directing photography and illustration; managing pre-press and print production when applicable on the various visual communication material. During this time, I was involved in such projects as the Harley-Davidson Genuine Motor Parts and Accessory catalogs, the Harley-Davidson Annual Report, various identities, binders, promotional and collateral material.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for creative concepts, layout and production. At Karnes Prickett Design I went from being a naive student of design to a designer able to handle various visual communication challenges. Under the direction of a very talented principal and senior designer I was introduced to the many options design has to offer, from photography to illustration, paper and print processes.