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Springboro, Oh, Us

Ohio, United States

Experienced Data Retention Program Lead with a deep commitment to data privacy and regulatory compliance. I specialize in optimizing and aligning data retention schedules with evolving legal, industry-specific, and tax requirements at all levels – from federal and state to provincial. My approach ensures that all records are classified, managed, and retained in full compliance with current standards.

Dayton, Ohio

Responsible for the leadership of strategic projects for the US-based business, as well as initiatives to ensure compliance with all data retention, data privacy, and regulatory compliance initiatives across all North American Legal segments by developing and implementing data privacy policies, procedures, and training activities.

Dayton, Ohio

Led a cross functional team for the global effort to migrate all customer usage from redundant, and retired legacy products to the next generation Lexis Advance platform, or other suitable environments. In this leadership role, liaised with stakeholders from business, and functional units to develop migration plans for all customers, and systems and to then execute on those plans driving the removal of redundant systems, reducing dependencies on out-of-date systems, realizing multi-million dollars in cost savings.

London, United Kingdom

Senior leader for a London-based Global Product Management organization developing the next generation New Lexis legal research platform across all international markets - the UK, Canada, and Asia/Pacific. Responsibilities included the development of the international product roadmap; drove project prioritization across international markets in coordination with the US business on New Lexis planning, re-use, and phasing. In this role, I provided business owners with an understanding of system capabilities; define common or shared uses; develop business requirements and interpret them into functional requirements which are used by development teams in the creation of products which delight our customers. This strategic role strived for product consistency and assists product owners in aligning functionality at lower overall costs 

Dayton, Ohio Area

Executed on the product and content strategy ensuring alignment with the next generation New Lexis roadmap; coordinate with department leaders on requirements objectives and maintained oversight of the day-to-day execution of the New Lexis initiatives. Led the effort to guarantee the underlying New Lexis platform core infrastructure architecture and components were in place to meet U.S. market expectations.

Juris Doctor, Legal Studies, General

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Public Administration

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Criminal Justice

Minor, History