This candidate is currently Senior project manager in the Client Services group of a major electronic discovery firm with a strong background and knowledge of litigation and discovery processes, document management, and document production. Professional background includes litigation consulting and management of document repositories and electronic discovery, as well as experience with imaging, coding, trial consulting, and extensive work in client and customer-focused environments.
Experience
Senior Project Manager February 2007-Present
New York, NY
Global eDiscovery Vendor
- Oversee the collection, processing/culling, review, and production processes for numerous Fortune 500 clients and AmLaw 100 law firms.
- Manage internal and external project resources, including Operations group resources and outside scanning, coding and printing vendors.Provide strategic consulting perspectives to clients in the early eDiscovery phase.
- Advise clients on best practice solutions for cost-effective and efficient workflows throughout the course of eDiscovery.
- Manage and design custom reporting methods for clients during large electronic document reviews.
- Extensive internal collaboration with Client Services and Operations team leads to solidify a standard reporting offering for clients as part of an effort to offer proactive solutions to enable clients to more effectively manage the review process.
- Conduct regular on-site trainings to contracted and full-time attorneys working on document reviews.
- Consistently hold meetings with clients’ core eDiscovery teams to reevaluate current review strategy and to proactively identify potential issues with next steps or areas that may be improved using the various tools/offerings our platform and Client Services/Operations teams can offer.
- Actively participate as a lead in an internal mentoring program for new project managers; help guide and educate new team members in terms of internal and external best practices.
- Recipient of multiple internal awards/formal recognition for dedication to high profile projects, extended efforts/support, and creative solutions aimed at increasing client satisfaction.
Senior Manager, Client Services June 2005-Febraury 2007
New York, NY
Global eDiscovery Vendor
- Oversaw the loading, review, and production processes for document media collected in major corporate litigations and stored on company’s online document repository.
- Managed a staff of three professionals working on a major corporate civil litigation with a document repository exceeding 50,000,000 pages.
- Collaborated with Operations Group team managers in design, implementation, and maintenance of tracking systems for hard copy and electronic documents.
- Responsible for managing internal and external project resources and coordinating multi-group efforts towards a common project; acted as a liaison between clients and Operations and Development teams.
- Communicated with and managed outside vendors providing contracted litigation support services.
Coordinated various aspects of the collection process, including the indexing of collected document media and deliverables to and from litigation support vendors for scanning, coding, and forensic analysis. - Prepared and reviewed regular project status reports; designed and presented project planning proposals to clients.
- Extensive experience in managing tiff and native online document reviews.
- Conducted regular training sessions for attorneys and paralegals who worked on the online document repository.
- Provided litigation consulting in regard to collection, online document review, and production strategy.
- Promoted internally for consistent track record of innovation and success.
Litigation Support Specialist June 2000-August 2003
Rochelle Park, NJ
eDiscovery Vendor
- Managed off-site and on-site document coding and scanning projects as well as other various processes, including OCR, stamping, and tiffing, in advance of document production.
- Created and maintained databases in Summation iBlaze; created and processed document exports and productions from these databases.
- Coordinated “video digitization with transcript synchronization” projects in preparation for on-site multimedia presentations in the courtroom.
- Delivered multimedia presentations at trial and engaged in trial consulting and strategy meetings with legal staffs of attorneys and paralegals to determine the best ways to present electronic evidence in the courtroom.
Computer Skills/Certification
• Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP.
• MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, MS Publisher).
• Xerox Litigation Services Litigation Manager.
• Summation Legal Software.
• DocuLex Imaging Software.
• inData's TrialDirector Suite.
• LexisNexis Concordance Software.
• **Concordance Certified Professional Certificate (CCP).
Education
Bachelor of Arts in History
State University
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