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I led Upwork’s Talent Solutions & Managed Services offerings, overseeing Talent Acquisition, Customer Success, Operations, and Classification & EOR Services for our Enterprise clients. My globally distributed team of 250+ included Sales, Talent professionals, Project & Program Managers, Expert Consultants, Delivery Teams, Classification & Payroll.

Upwork is the world’s largest marketplace for Agencies & Freelance Talent. As an increasingly connected and independent workforce goes online, knowledge work - like software before it - is shifting online as well. This shift is making it faster and easier for clients to connect and work with talent in near real-time and is freeing professionals everywhere from having to work at a set time and place. Upwork's vision is to connect businesses with great talent faster than ever (within minutes). Businesses find, hire, collaborate with and pay freelancers around the world via Upwork. Through Upwork businesses get more done, connecting with top talent to work on projects from web and mobile app development to SEO, social media marketing, content writing, graphic design, administrative support, and thousands of other projects. Upwork makes it fast, simple, and cost-effective to find, hire, work with, and pay the best professionals anywhere, any time.Upwork’s vision: To connect businesses with great talent to work without limits.Upwork's mission: To create economic opportunities so people have better lives.Upwork’s values: Put our community first. Inspire a boundless future of work. Build amazing teams. Have a bias towards action.

Led global eDiscovery and Document Review business with primary operations in US, APAC, and UK with focus on M&A and Litigation. FRONTEO is a publicly traded global technology and services company specializing in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Information Governance, Managed Review, and Litigation Consulting for the eDiscovery market.

Launched, managed, and scaled North American operations of Global Legal Staffing & Document Review Services business unit with oversight of Accounts, Project Management, Staffing & Recruiting, Facilities, Operations, Support, and Administrative teams. Worked with global law firms and Fortune 500 corporations with focus on large M&A, Product Liability, and Banking Litigation matters. Grew business from $3M to $100M in 3 years.Epiq Systems is a global provider of legal services and technology, serving law firms, corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies—helping them manage the complex data and logistics of eDiscovery, bankruptcy, and class action.

Managed legal services staffing team, temporary staff, and book of business servicing the Northwest US region. Day to day included Account Management, Business Development, Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Recruiting, Project Management, HR and Operations.

Managed staff of 5 and temporary payroll of 60+ working with top law firms and Fortune 500 companies to staff projects and place attorneys and paralegals. Responsible for all business development, project management and client relationships.

Worked with clients to plan and build in house legal teams. Representative clients included Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, Wellington Asset Management, State Street Global Advisors, Investors Bank & Trust, Liberty Mutual, Bain Capital.

Provided indigent criminal defendants total representation in all phases of the court process, including arraignment, bail hearings and reviews, suppression and discovery hearings, pretrial conferences and plea negotiations, trials and sentencing in the Boston Municipal Court, Dorchester Division and Suffolk Superior Court.