Highly adaptable and collaborative team leader with a background in law enforcement, demonstrating strong investigative skills and proven troubleshooting abilities. Proficient at managing high-profile clients, tackling complex issues, leading special projects, transcending barriers between technology, creativity, and business, and responding to disruptive or unexpected emergency situations affecting stakeholders, employees, customers, and revenue. Guided by servant leadership principles, committed to fostering an environment of trust, empathy, and empowerment within the team. Excel at inspiring action, igniting momentum, and creating intentional systems that support, sustain, and propel teams to accomplish organizational goals and guide decision-makers toward proactive, creative solutions. Recognized for efficiently leading distributed teams, adeptly managing projects through research and analysis, exceeding expectations, and leveraging data-driven decision-making in high-pressure, fast-paced environments. Equipped with certifications in hostage negotiation, crisis intervention, disaster & trauma psychology, multi-disciplinary investigation, and conflict mediation, enabling a comprehensive analysis of facts, risk assessment, and efficient resource deployment to meet critical client and case team needs.SIGNATURE ACHIEVEMENTS:- Prepared for and supported over 30 state and federal product liability trials. Key components of this role include identifying and interviewing fact witnesses, analyzing discovery materials, preparing exhibit lists, preparing expert dossiers, preparing outlines for direct and cross examinations, and directly supporting attorneys throughout the trial process.- Led the development and implementation of a digital notebook and shared-drive system for trial support resources, transcripts and exhibits, resulting in a cost savings in excess of $360,000 over 5years versus traditional hard copy and shipping costs.- Served as a member of a Critical Incident Stress Management (C.I.S.M.) Team in response to the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. C.I.S.M. is a formal, highly structured intervention protocol using integrated, multi-component crisis intervention strategies specifically designed to prevent or mitigate the effects of excessive stress, trauma, and high-stakes decision making that occurs among emergency services professionals and first responders during critical incidents.
Listed skills include Litigation, Litigation Support, Civil Litigation, Product Liability, and 8 others.