Paul C. Powers Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA

• Manage all organization-wide records retention and destruction efforts
• Principal advisor to senior management on records management policies and practices
• Provides leadership to all Records and Information Management Coordinators
• Partner with Information Technology to develop best practices related to electronic information
• Maintain corporation's offsite storage collection of over 100,000 cf
• Review all activity, invoices and contract negotiations for corporate records program

• Manage 70 employees in Records/Conflicts Research and Business Intake departments
• Oversight responsibility in implementation of new records management/imaging workflow and system
• Develop and implement records management policies, procedures and retention schedules for retrieving, storing, distributing and indexing of records
• Provide operational support and manage departmental needs for information and records management
• Provide analysis and reports, including business process improvement metrics, to estimate efficiency and productivity of records program and staff
• Authored multiple process improvement documents including a Records Management Strategy

• Administer firm’s conflicts database
• Manage conflict-of-interest research and process and procedures to ensure risk mitigation
• Work directly with firm partners and Director of Risk Management on conflict recognition/resolution
• Liaise with vendor to implement system changes/enhancements
• Ensure and maintain highest level of confidentiality of client and firm information

• Administered application that managed company’s document workflow related to regulatory requirements, audits, and inter-company moves
• Coordinated with records storage vendor in overseeing off-site archival storage and monitored activity for over 10,000 cubic feet of document storage space
• Developed and maintained multiple databases that handled corporate files, documents, company/client information
• Worked closely with 250 internal clients to support billing adjustments, cost allocations, project cost negotiations and management reporting for all department software and hardware issues and upgrades

Greater Boston Area

• Supervised and trained six associates
• Maintained all imaging equipment and hardware, and updates
• Managed production and quality control standards of more than four million micro-imaged corporate documents
• Assisted in designed and implementation of a computer assisted retrieval application on a CICS mainframe system
• Administered security policies for company’s client data retrieval system

Education record

Business Management; Management Information Systems