Christen Renna Email & Phone Number

United States

Renton, Washington, United States

‒ Senior level manager to a team of 5 managers and 36+ creative individuals across the Magic: The Gathering Creative team. Ensures the team can successfully deliver on targets and goals by directing resourcing, talent development, external vendor relations, and offering management guidance & and support.‒ Directs project resourcing across art and narrative teams for dozens of yearly products. Guarantees an accurate picture of current staffing plans and foresight on potential challenges and solutions. Ensures that workloads are balanced, projects are properly staffed, and employee morale is high by working closely with discipline-specific managers.- Ensures the success of Magic World Building by overseeing ongoing initiatives, brand goals, and workflow efficiency. Promotes employee growth and success through organized performance reviews, one-on-one coaching, career development, and team development.‒ Oversees workflows and communication with nearly 1000 freelance artists, writers, and consultants while leading the Magic Creative team's vendor management strategy. Enhances cross-functional processes while cultivating solid relationships with freelancers by working with finance, legal, and production.‒ Responsible for developing partnerships with outside art studios and agencies. Outlines project scope with directors and product leaders, creates project proposals, negotiates contract details, and forges strong connections with outside organizations.– Fosters cross-functional cooperation and process standardization by acting as a centralized advisor for numerous teams. Uses strong technical skills to identify inefficiencies in processes and develop ways to make them more efficient.

Visual Development Production Supervisor for Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of OzResponsibilities:‒ Fosters the visual development of the show by identifying creative needs based on the show's script and artistic style, and by driving strategic planning, scheduling, design reviews, and deadlines.‒ Leads a team of 15+ by overseeing day-to-day workflow and communication and by maintaining an organized work environment that fosters productivity, creativity, inclusion, and collaboration.‒ Tracks, manages, and implements creative notes, all while keeping a pulse on big-picture ideas and goals.‒ Directs design reviews and post-mortems by offering strategic and creative insight and by facilitating conversation.‒ Provides visibility into current priorities, team utilization, and creative processes by creating and maintaining concise weekly production reports.‒ Forecasts schedule impacts due to staffing changes, pipeline needs, or creative changes, strategizing and offering solutions to producers and production managers.‒ Collaborates with producers and the production designer to build staffing plans and identify external talent.‒ Delegates assignments to coordinators and PAs, providing task priorities, performance feedback, and mentorship.

Films: Nimona‒ Partner with Producers and Studio Leadership to strategically plan long-term and short-term show initiatives by analyzing production needs, headcount, quota rates, show schedules, and budgets. ‒ Manage, update, and present weekly show reports, ensuring Producers and Studio Leadership have an up-to-date overview that aids in decision making. - Supervise show bidding processes by comparing bids against budget parameters, providing Production Managers and Producers with a breakdown of left-to-do work, and an analysis of impacts to schedules.- Primary reporting resource for Production Management on the show, building show reports in Excel that are accurate, dynamic, efficient, and easy to understand.- Problem-solve with Producers and Production Managers by building scenarios that resolve budget overages, schedule changes, labor adjustments, or pipeline needs.‒ Manager and engineer of the Show Schedule, a robust, dynamic tracking system in Google Sheets that visualizes the run of show and hundreds of crew schedules. The Show Schedule is the primary tool used by Production Supervisors for forecasting schedules and sharing scenarios with Producers. - Mentor Production staff on how to optimize department reports and make processes more efficient.

Films: NimonaDepartments: Art, Animation, Production Finance Analytics- Partner with the Production Supervisor to evaluate inventory and plan crew schedules, ensuring production remains on schedule.‒ Track production assets and shots across the pipeline, coordinating the timely delivery of work.‒ Lead daily status meetings and confirm that team members have the resources and information needed to complete their work successfully and efficiently.‒ Mediate between departments and offer guidance to both artists and production staff, making sure the needs of multiple teams are met.‒ Manage production data within Shotgun, certifying information is up-to-date, accurate, and organized.‒ Facilitate workflows by tracking assignments and communicating delivery dates to teams.

Departments: Art, Character AssetsFilms: Spies in Disguise (2019), Ferdinand (2017)Responsibilities:- Coordinated daily reviews and provided support for presentations so meetings ran smoothly.- Organized, archived, and distributed digital artwork, ensuring up-to-date art was accessible to the Director and other filmmakers.- Supported external projects—such as The Art of Ferdinand—by routing and QCing deliverables to external partners, ensuring studio standards were met.- Plan team-building activities and milestone celebrations that cultivate a positive team atmosphere- Created resources like slideshows and art displays, which aided Art Directors with presentations and shared the vision of our films.

Greater New York City Area

- Authored 50+ online publications in categories such as lifestyle, humor, science & discovery- Crafted short and long-form copy that reflected both the tone and style of the brand - Brainstormed and pitched ideas for creative content that promoted the brand and maximized audiences- Designed graphics and created illustrations that supported creative copy- Staged and photographed content for promotional and creative use

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Selected to help manage, as well as mentor, over 300 student volunteers.• Volunteered over 60 hours during the duration of the conference.