Karl Mortensen

About Karl Mortensen

I sit at the intersection of creative strategy and operational discipline. My…

Experience

1. Photo Studio Manager

   Quad

   May 2022 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Manage the ecommerce and content studios for Academy Sports and Outdoors. Repaired and maintained a stellar relationship with the client while growing our service offering.• Currently lead a team of 9 in-house photography and supporting associates, in addition to 7 offshore retouchers. Facilitate performance reviews, growth initiatives, periodic work quality audits, and role evolution.• E-commerce imagery, branding imagery for in-house collections, campaign imagery for national brands.• Work with client’s art directors to help define and evolve style guides and lighting direction for new brands.• Create video content for broadcast advertising, corporate communications and quarterly business updates with C-suite executives.• Project management of large-scale photo and video shoots.• Sample management.• Equipment management: research emerging equipment and software trends, maintain existing assets, implemented duty cycle cadence for equipment replacement.• Balance and manage on-site and offshore retouching teams.

Education

• University of Southern California

  Music

• Harvard Business School Online

  Business Management

• Brooks Institute

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Commercial Photography, Marketing

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Marketing
• Social Media
• Social Media Marketing
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Editing
• Web Design
• Customer Oriented
• Image Manipulation
• Adobe Photoshop
• Commercial Product Photography
• Digital Photography
• Portrait Photography
• Art Direction
• Mac
• Commercial Photography
• Graphics
• Advertising
• Portraits
• Graphic Design
• Dreamweaver
• Illustrator
• Image Editing
• Photography
• Creative Direction
• Photoshop
• Editorial