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California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Sf Bay Area

Led eDiscovery Operations: Built and implemented efficient eDiscovery processes for a fast-growing legal department.Technological Expertise: Utilized and evaluated eDiscovery platforms like Exterro, Relativity, and Google Vault to optimize workflows.Project Management: Managed complex data and technology projects, ensuring timely and successful completion.Vendor Management: Negotiated contracts, reviewed invoices, and maintained strategic relationships with eDiscovery vendors.Cross-functional Collaboration: Partnered with Legal, Security, and IT teams to drive legal technology initiatives.

Palo Alto, California

Manage global eDiscovery program and projects, such as creating and managing litigation holds, collecting emails, documents, and other data, and liaising with internal organizations like HR Business Partners, IT and InfoSec leadership along with outside partners such as eDiscovery vendor(s), in-house counsel, and outside counsel to ensure defensible data recovery and preservation across the CompanyCollaborate with internal teams and outside counsel to support litigation matters, pre-litigation disputes, Ethics and Compliance investigations, law enforcement data requests, and privacy data subject access requests (DSARs)Conduct forensically-sound collections of various types of electronic data (e.g. email, user-generate laptop data, SaaS-hosted system data such as Confluence/Jira)Conduct and manage the tracking of internal investigation review of email data responding to potential IP theftGenerate reports and analyze litigation hold data from various databases and system platforms to identify trends and continue to create interdepartmental process improvementsEvaluate and provide input on eDiscovery vendors, processes, and technology roadmapsManage and partner with internal Sourcing and Finance teams to conduct an industry wide RFP of eDiscovery vendors to select scalable and technologically advanced service/product providersBuild and develop rapport with other organizations within the CompanyAdvisor to business colleagues on a broad range of legal - litigation subject areas demonstrating expertise in risk and data preservation management across multiple platformsLead resource for peers in the Legal group

Palo Alto, Ca

Palo Alto, Ca

Work closely with Legal Compliance to add value and support to the Project Manager and the Head of eDiscovery in a wide variety of tasks and projects. Also working heavily with outside vendors, I coordinate to help streamline the legal hold process as well as company email retention policyPartner with multiple teams across the globe to focus on litigation hold tasks and duties as well as migration and centralization of litigation relevant data in order to mitigate data sprawl, litigation risk, and closely align with Federal complianceThis cross-functional role is central in conducting and executing vital and regular tasks and duties in order to be defensible and engage in proper litigation holds and preservations of company data. This role is essential to staying within company and governmental compliance, the benefit of which cannot be overstated(Contract through Discovia)

San Francisco, California

Delivering project management assistance and collaboration with Operations Dept to provide clients with high level eDiscovery services.

Menlo Park, Ca

• Analyze legal process to ensure protection of user data and prevention of unnecessary disclosure• Investigate and inspect high level content abuse• Manage workload and responsibilities while on the law enforcement response triage team• Trained new hires for the headquarters• Provide feedback and coaching for my direct reports on process errors• Develop and distribute new policy and procedures for the department• Respond to law enforcement requests• Perform high level data entry with utmost accuracy through internal systems• Performed the preservation of accounts requested by law enforcement under Federal law

San Francisco Bay Area

TERIS is a full-service litigation support solution provider. We work with leading law firms and corporate legal departments to provide sophisticated consultation-based solutions, state-of-the-art technologies and highly experienced project management. • Litigation Support to Law Firms in the San Francisco Bay Area, ensuring projects are successfully produced (either conventionally or electronically), bound and delivered within specific project requirements within budget and schedule constraints• Coordinate with outside vendors or other firm-wide resources • Develop new and existing business relationships• Month end Billing/Invoicing • On site price quotes

Sunnyvale, Ca

• Reviewed and responded to legal requests as custodian of records for Yahoo!’s Law Enforcement Compliance Team• Retrieved and produced documentation in response to subpoenas, search warrants, and preservation requests in accordance with the Electronic Communication Privacy Act (ECPA) and other relevant statutes and case law• Submitted reports to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Mountain View, Ca/ Hyderabad, India

• Instrumental in developing policy, methods, and quality control techniques to implement across global offices• Utilize software program/tool to perform effective data quality assurance for Google Maps reporting• Directly managed two month [process/application] training program of 200+ operators in Hyderabad, India

Palo Alto, Ca

• Litigation Support to Law Firms in the San Francisco Bay Area, ensuring projects are successfully produced (either conventionally or electronically), bound and delivered within specific project requirements within budget and schedule constraints• Coordinate with outside vendors or other firm-wide resources • Develop new and existing business relationships• Month end Billing/Invoicing • On site price quotes

Woodside/Santa Barbara, Ca

• Teller lead for over 20 full and part time tellers• Operational officer of the bank for duel control procedures• Chief safe deposit box officer; responsible for maintenance, accuracy of customer information, and rental of new boxes• Coordinated with branch and operations manager to streamline an efficient and easy sales system for customers within the branch• Wire transfer specialist for customers • Trainer/mentor for new hires; responsible for coaching, training, grading, and evaluating new tellers of the team

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business Economics

Business/Managerial Economics

Activities and Societies: Cross Country Team. Track & Field Team.