Brian Schmitz, Relativity Expert, Itil Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Principally responsible for:- coordinating with executive leadership on the overall global direction of RelativityOne with the various operational platform options and workflows Consilio has in the technology stack;- liaising with various global RelativityOne operational teams to gather and synthesize opportunities with the RelativityOne platform and.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Serves as technology expert and ambassador to industry related tools and applications leveraged by Special Counsel and across the eDiscovery space, including Relativity Server and RelativityOne. Works with Directors.
• Design, direct and evangelize innovation projects related to RelativityOne, working with internal resources or evaluating and partnering with external resources
• Lead and execute process improvement and strategic growth initiatives through cross-functional teams
• Lead and assist cross-departmental groups in evaluation and expansion of eDiscovery related technology
• Evaluate and maintain RelativityOne/Relativity Server first-party, second-party and third-party applications up to date and licensed; educate and promote usage of such applications
• Create and provide educational demonstrations, trainings, discussions and applicable documentation related to eDiscovery technology

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Serves as technology expert and ambassador to industry related tools and applications leveraged by Special Counsel and across the eDiscovery space, including Relativity Server and RelativityOne. Works with Directors.
• Design, direct and evangelize innovation projects related to RelativityOne, working with internal resources or evaluating and partnering with external resources
• Lead and execute process improvement and strategic growth initiatives through cross-functional teams
• Lead and assist cross-departmental groups in evaluation and expansion of eDiscovery related technology
• Evaluate and maintain RelativityOne/Relativity Server first-party, second-party and third-party applications up to date and licensed; educate and promote usage of such applications
• Create and provide educational demonstrations, trainings, discussions and applicable documentation related to eDiscovery technology

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Led rollout of RelativityOne’s new Aero UI update for internal and external clients, provided pre-sales demos and internal trainings related to the updated interface and workflows. Also provided support for Relativity.
• Evaluated new RelativityOne Aero UI update; engaged with Relativity to improve product prior to rollout; created documentation, training and demonstration materials for Aero upgrade; provided post-launch support and.
• Acted as primary point of contact for Special Counsel account at Relativity and other related software vendors
• Led competency evaluation for RelativityOne Data Migration Partner program
• Assessed Relativity Server patch upgrade and planning for next Server release
• Validated third-party plugins for Relativity Server and RelativityOne to extend feature set and service offerings

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Maintained and improved the firm's eDiscovery platforms and litigation support systems. Led cross-functional teams to implement critical initiatives.
• Successfully managed multiple large Relativity upgrades and server migration projects and worked with internal technology teams to test and validate expanded functionality, increased performance and improved.
• Reduced SQL utilization and network footprint up to 22% by properly maintaining and cleaning Relativity workspaces.
• Transitioned full CloudNine LAW platform from 21 Win7 virtual machines to Win10 VMs.
• Migrated 14 terabytes of data between Autonomy's Introspect and Recommind's Axcelerate platforms into Relativity with no data loss.
• Created reports on data usage and user activity to predict environment growth, utilizing Microsoft Office 365 (and started to build in Power BI), allowing for more rapid scalability.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• I was the primary point of contact between CTS, internal technology groups and vendors to ensure they are aware of CTS’s needs relating to software and hardware support. This role was also tasked with maintaining.
• Led project teams of 3-8 creating processes for data intake and processing, data destruction, data migration, and information governance, resulting in ISO-27001 certification.
• Evaluated firm resources and needs and ran proof of concept demos with vendors to integrate their products into the firm's technology stack.
• Tracked application licenses and negotiated contract renewals.
• Trained staff on software upgrades including: Relativity, CloudNine LAW, Compiled ReadySuite, Ipro TrialDirector, Thomson West Case Notebook, and IDM UltraEdit.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Led internal litigation support Data Management group fulfilling client and legal team database requests, including loading, searching, manipulating, reporting, exporting and producing data. Implemented customized task tracking tool to aid in monitoring requests and group project load, increasing efficiency while reducing errors.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Created customized surveys for government clients. Collected data and reported on milestones and insights. Led quality assurance on survey design and methodology. Reduced typographical and grammatic errors by 12%.