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Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Direct, manage, and mentor a team of analysts and investigators.
• Develop standards, procedures, and success metrics for the TAT program.
• Partner with Human Resources, Employee Relations, Global Security Operations, Asset Protection, Organized Retail Crime, Fraud Prevention, Ethics, and other investigative functions across the company to ensure the.
• Advise the company on the findings of investigations and liaise with law enforcement, as necessary.
• Lead and support highly sensitive, complex, and confidential threat investigations regarding workplace violence, harassment, brand/reputational risk, property damage, and fraud.
• Lead a team of threat assessment experts to identify, disrupt, and protect against any undermining of business operations and assets.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

• Develop and implement eDiscovery/Forensic/Insider Threat response plans; and evaluate and select e-discovery technology tools, including identification and collection, searching and culling, early case assessment.
• Responsible for identifying, evaluating, recommending, and promoting technology products and services.
• Overseeing day-to-day operations for insider threat investigations, Digital Forensics, and DLP monitoring.
• Support the Executive Protection Program and Threat Assessment Matrix with Travel Assessments, creating Travel Briefs and coordinating alerting and monitoring of executives and senior leaders when traveling.
• Ensuring continuous enterprise-wide insider threat monitoring is conducted within the designated detection and response times.
• Manage the development and implementation of global insider threat monitoring surrounding data exfiltration, internal fraud, and privilege escalations.

North Chicago, Illinois, US

• Provided management for enterprise solutions associated with the implementation, configuration, administration, and ongoing support of Nuix, EnCase and Atlas.
• Accountable for the successful completion of data processing jobs from intake to completion.
• Functional Lead for assessment/re-engineering of all processes surrounding the litigation hold and data collection functions.
• Served as the primary operational support for the AbbVie Legal Record Tracking system and subject matter expert in the Legal Hold & eDiscovery collection process.
• Coordinated the fulfillment of electronic file requests with the appropriate domestic and international personnel in AbbVie Information Technology Organizations (ITOs).
• Participated in the development of recommendations and proposals for the delivery of IT projects in the Legal Hold & eDiscovery area.

Deerfield, IL, US

• Lead and accountable for the day-to-day oversight and execution of the company's Legal Hold and eDiscovery program to include administration, monitoring, compliance, reporting, and training.
• Provided work direction and assignments in eDiscovery to ensure work balance and relevant information collection and storage necessary for litigation, investigations, and inquiries are completed within requisite time.
• Responsible for supporting the company's Legal Hold program relating to discovery collections, including, but not limited to: identification, preservation, collection, retention, and storage of required documents and.
• Prepared discovery materials for review by legal counsel and ensures that all required materials are included in the final request.
• Conducted searches for information to identify potentially relevant ESI information, which may be required by attorneys, investigators, paralegals, etc.
• Monitored and maintained compliance with the Legal Hold program, policy and procedures.

• Provided legal support, research, and case management regarding Auto Liability and General Liability, Employment, Bankruptcy, Collection, Product liability, and Insurance defense matters.
• Performed legal research and drafted memoranda of findings regarding legal analysis and application for issues relating to employment and corporate matters.
• Conducted employee investigations and interviews regarding employment discrimination and harassment.
• Summarized and translated Spanish interviews as part of internal employment investigations.
• Assisted outside counsel, internal clients, and in-house attorneys in reviewing and completing pleadings and discovery responses in all matters. Review, modify, and assist in the drafting and development of discovery.
• Assisted and managed the responses to subpoenas and request for information, ensuring compliance with all applicable state and federal laws.

Attended trial, conference, and mediations with attorneys to provide legal support.Identified and prepared demonstrative exhibits and deposition designations.Abstracted medical records and created memos to attorneys regarding changes in injury.Drafted subpoenas requesting medical and employment information. Reviewed deposition transcripts and drafted.

Facilitated filings with State, Federal, and Appellate court. Generated and edited voluminous discovery and pleadings for multimillion-dollar class action cases.Integrated technology and streamlined high volume document organization, bate-stamping, and assemblage of evidence via, Summation, Excel, and Access. Reviewed deposition transcripts and drafted.

Prepared documents and organized materials for civil trials. Researched factual and legal issues. Docketing US and foreign prosecution deadlines.Creation, preparation and management of patent and trademark files.Managing and updating status reports to track the progress of all US and foreign patent and trademark related deadlines.Assist in the preparation.

Certificate, Paralegal Studies; Civil Litigation

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications

Bachelors, Management

Philosophy