Rina Murray
Design Studio Manager at Nixon | Creative Services & Project Management Leader
San Diego County | US
Interests
Yoga
Running
Travel
Reading
Animal welfare
Nutrition
Industries
Bike
Creative Agencies
Moto & Powersports
Skate
Snow
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Summary
Activity
Work experience
Nixon
Design Studio Manager | 09/2021 - Current
★ Serve in a multi-faceted strategic, creative, and project leadership role with responsibility for establishing, prioritizing, and managing the project workload of a 10-member design studio comprising designers, photographers, and copywriters.
★ Lead the selection and implementation of best-in-class creative design, media production, and project management tools to optimize project execution.
★ Develop and manage annual studio budgets and individual project budgets as well as project marketing calendars and on-site/location-based photoshoot schedules to ensure company-wide alignment on the production of digital campaigns and assets.
★ Establish and maintain vendor relationships to facilitate the timely completion of digital campaign/asset production projects, including sourcing cost-effective solutions for retail point-of-purchase.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Project Manager | 08/2021 - 10/2021
Cvent
Project Manager | 05/2021 - 07/2021
Bonnier Corporation
Group Production Director - Bonnier Media | 11/2007 - 11/2020
Bonnier Media Group (2017 to 2020)
Bonnier Motorcycle Group (2013 to 2017)
Transworld Media (2007 to 2013)
★ Progressed through multiple production leadership roles across Bonnier Corporation's various media groups and franchises, with eventual responsibility for leading company-wide digital/print media production and pre-press teams.
★ Provided strategic and creative direction, operational oversight, and project management leadership for 20 national magazine titles and various ancillary projects.
★ Guided and supervised a cross-functional team comprising production managers, pre-press managers, imaging specialists, art directors, copy editors, and production and marketing designers.
★ Devised and implemented high-level production strategies/roadmaps, processes, and best practices to ensure consistency, cost-efficiency, and quality for creative production projects across multiple groups/teams.
★ Collaborated cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to manage multiple project schedules and facilitate seamless, on-time, and on-budget completion of project milestones while maintaining alignment with brand guidelines.
★ Fostered effective communications across multiple departments to ensure cross-functional alignment on project goals and action plans and enable proactive identification and resolution of roadblocks.
★ Oversaw the end-to-end project lifecycle for media production projects, including project planning and scheduling, budgeting and resource allocation, task tracking and prioritization, stakeholder communications, and progress/status reporting.
★ Supported hiring and onboarding of personnel for production teams, in addition to coaching and mentoring production teams and cross-disciplinary leads on production and project management methodologies/best practices.
Education history
UC San Diego Extended Studies
| 2016 - 2018




