at PhotoMerchant
Sydney Area, Australia
- Current
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- Creative & Marketing Director at PhotoMerchant
- Digital Creative Strategist at Advertising Energy
- Past
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- Digital Creative Strategist at Energy Interactive
- Creative Director at MassMedia Studios
- Creative Director at MN8 Creative (Self-employed)
- Interactive Producer at Southern Star Endemol
- Producer at Bomb Productions
- Interactive Designer and Producer at Singtel Optus
- Digital Interactive Designer at Singtel Optus
- Presenter at 3D Radio (Triple M FM)
- Education
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- Australian Film Television and Radio School
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Kain Tietzel’s Summary
Digital Creative with 15 years experience in interactive media, video, animation and photography. Specialise in creative direction, strategy and multimedia production techniques. Thrives in start-up environments, is creative in problem solving, constantly engaged in latest digital media trends and solutions.
Kain Tietzel’s Specialties:
Creative direction, strategy, concept design, interface design, brainstorming, project management, video production, podcasting, vodcasting, social networking and "other duties as required".
Kain Tietzel’s Experience
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Creative & Marketing Director
PhotoMerchant
(Photography industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
PhotoMerchant is an exciting new online tool for photographers enabling them to go from no web presence to having a complete website in 30 minutes flat. It provides photo albums, a shopping cart, a ready-to-use merchant facility, automated print & shipping fulfilment and a full suite of e-commerce tools.
The service is currently in development and we're looking for photographers in Australian and the USA to join our Beta program.
Website: http://www.photomerchant.net
Blog: http://blog.photomerchant.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/photomerchant
Awesome Photography Blog: http://photomerchant.tumblr.com/
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Digital Creative Strategist
Advertising Energy
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
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Digital Creative Strategist
Energy Interactive
(Online Media industry)
2008 — 2009 (1 year)
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Creative Director
MassMedia Studios
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 2004 — October 2008 (4 years 8 months)
Description about my time at MassMedia to come. For the time being, be assured that I did, mostly digital, creative stuff.
Former positions held at MassMedia Studios:
- Managing Director
- Creative Director
- Communications Director
- Producer
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Creative Director
MN8 Creative (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)
July 1996 — June 2006 (10 years)
Freelance video and web production for a range of companies including e-Learning video production for Singtel Optus, film clips for Sony Music, broadcast design for Magnet Post, Zealot and PixelMill Films, websites for Vision-X, Locher and interactive consultancy services for Cobalt Media, Southern Star Interactive and Rufan-Redi.
Essentially I project managed, consulted, coded, video edited, compressed, streamed and designed for web and broadcast.
For some examples visit the (now tragically out of date) website: http://www.mn8.com/ -
Interactive Producer
Southern Star Endemol
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 6 months)
Website content and interactive production for the Australian Big Brother, seasons 2&3 as well as interactive concept development for Deal or No Deal, the Secret Life of Us and other SSE properties.
- Manage development of sponsored interactive elements
- Communities Manager
- Games Development
- Copywriter
- Website and Graphic Design
- Broadcast Design
- Video Production (pre and post)
- Team Lead
- Concept Development
- Project Management
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Producer
Bomb Productions
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
June 1999 — May 2001 (2 years)
One of the greatest places I have ever worked, BOMB was a leading interactive agency that rose to prominence in the UK during the dot com era. My role was Producer and deemed an honourary Designer. Together we developed interactive projects for:
- Channel4
- FilmFour
- Lego
- Fightbox (BBC)
- Nickelodeon
- and more...
Special mentions:
"Fighbox" interactive television and game show where virtual robots, controlled by human players, fought it out on a virtual set in front of a live studio audience.
"Dots" an interactive television pilot developed for Channel 4 where websites and internet phenomena were reported upon, and the audience at home were able to access the links through their telephones.
"Two Minutes" two-minutes.com was an interactive murder mystery set in Cornwall during the eclipse of 1999. It was truly ahead of it's time. A more illustrative writeup can be found here: http://www.ruritania.co.uk/web/videovlogger-videoid-3261053015724283397 -
Interactive Designer and Producer
Singtel Optus
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
March 1997 — May 1999 (2 years 3 months)
Developed and ran a video production studio and edit suite within Optus' head office. The facility was used for:
- Live video broadcasts to retail stores and offices across country
- Distance learning education services
- Video production
- Graphic design
- Broadcast design
- Web & CD-ROM based eLearning
- Internal marketing communications
- and as a special mention, we were one of the first (read: second) to deliver a live video stream over the web from Australia. -
Digital Interactive Designer
Singtel Optus
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SGT; Telecommunications industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
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Presenter
3D Radio (Triple M FM)
(Online Media industry)
1990 — 1993 (3 years)
Kain Tietzel’s Education
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Australian Film Television and Radio School
Digital Media 1995 — 1997
- Activities and Societies:
- Founding Member of the "Five Cent Movement"
Additional Information
Kain Tietzel’s Websites:
Kain Tietzel’s Interests:
Improvisation, creative thinking, boundary and envelope pushing, experimentation, quantum physics, alternative music, changing perceptions, driving down costs, thinking outside the box, hedging my bets, putting my nose to the grindstone, letting the cat out of the bag, taking one to know one, raising the roof, defcon 2, gaming, comedia (del arte), character voices, acting, making a boob of ones self, articulating the improbable, seti, the search for spock, new technology, gadgets, the future, the past and everything in between.
Kain Tietzel’s Groups:
Lomographic Society of Australia
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Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals -
AIMIA NSW State Chapter -
Australian New Media -
Stereoscopic 3-D Professionals Worldwide -
Professional Photography -
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Photography Industry Professionals -
Designers Talk -
Professional Photographers of America -
Canon EOS Digital Photography -
Adobe Photoshop Group -
Linking Nikon ® D-SLR Camera Users -
Silicon Beach Australia -
Online Advertising Group -
Local Search Optimization -
Digital Media Group - Australia and New Zealand -
BOMB Alumni -
Change2 -
Band of Entrepreneurs -
AtomicSearch
Kain Tietzel’s Honors:
2008 AIMIA Award Finalist // Inlite
http://www.inlite.com.au
2008 Bronze Echo Award // Audi S3 website http://www.notforeveryone.com
2007 ADMA finalist // Audi S3 website http://www.notforeveryone.com
2006 AIMIA finalist // Audi Quidam website
Honorable Mention // "Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence"
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