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Chicago, IL, US

• Maintained executive oversight of Forensics, Information Governance, and Legal Compliance practice groups with P&L responsibilities of a global business with 70+ associates.
• Propelled expansion of solution portfolio to include privacy management, information protection, Microsoft Teams compliance, and communication surveillance.
• Cultivated and matured formal sales channel partnerships with Microsoft, OneTrust and Relativity Trace as a certified professional services partner, resulting in hundreds of net new corporate relationships.
• Presided over the development and global launch of proprietary technology products (eGovern, Epiq Compliance Connector for Microsoft Teams), providing solutions addressing emerging challenges in data governance.
• Led acquisition of Controle Inc. in 2018, and its integration with Epiq’s Information Governance practice, resulting in a 100% increase in service delivery and sales capacity and recognition as the Microsoft Compliance.

• Lead a build out of a national client services program from 20 to more than 100 eDiscovery project managers, project coordinators, and technical specialists.
• Owned pre-sales function of Solution Architect and RFP analyst team, ramping from four to 12 dedicated associates.
• Delivered executive oversight for Technology Assisted Review practice group comprised of six dedicated associates. Presided over a roll-out and credentialing of modern analytics platforms from Equivio, Brainspace.
• Oversaw Litworks, a national training practice serving more than 200 individual associates annually.
• Performed bridge assignments managing DTI’s eDiscovery Managed Services, Document Review, and Forensics practice groups that provided the company extended time to select and place the best permanent leader.
• Served as a key contributor to the integration of acquired companies to existing functional practices: Daticon-EED in 2010; Bridge City Legal in 2011; Fios, Providus, and Data Forte in 2012; Global Legal Discovery in.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Led the launch of DTI’s eDiscovery processing and hosting offerings to the Chicago market. Directed eDiscovery operations, client services and sales support functions delivering services to hundreds of local law firms.
• Expanded the Chicago book of business +$10M in annual revenue
• Presided over the implementation of a common set of service delivery practices utilized across all of DTI’s regional eDiscovery centers, enabling the company to rapidly scale its service delivery capacity while.
• Established and formalized DTI’s eDiscovery sales support function with a common playbook and standards for the Solutions Architect position which improved the company’s ability to execute successful project outcomes.

US

• Managed litigation support operations centers in Chicago and New York, delivering eDiscovery, bibliographic coding, document scanning, and document printing services to law firms and corporate legal departments.
• Ramped staffing capacity to 25 dedicated associates in project management, data analyst, document management, coding analyst, and machine operator positions.
• Managed P&L for a $6M business serving hundreds of clients.

Mba, Operations Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

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