Vennela Reddy - Ence, Rcu Email & Phone Number

Issaquah, Wa, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Manage global eDiscovery Portfolio of complex litigations and investigations collaborating with legal subject matter experts, third-party vendors, and cross functional partners. • Identify best eDiscovery solutions, develop project roadmaps, identify key stakeholders, coordinate with internal and external partners for successful implementation of identified solutions.• Act as a strategic advisor to Chief Legal Officer with respect to continuously improving eDiscovery and Legal operations effectiveness.• Advance existing processes, share best practices, develop playbooks and training to improve efficiency and productivity of the team. • Oversee mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures from an eDiscovery perspective, ensuring that relevant data is properly identified, preserved, and collected.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Work with case teams, client representatives, and vendors to devise and implement plans to preserve, collect, process, review, and produce ESI in a defensible manner.• Able to identify gaps (in-house or at vendors/Outside Counsel/Review teams), propose solutions, and take ownership of projects while balancing time, quality, cost, and risk.• Be a key contributing member of the Legal Innovation team and create and drive relationships with other key company functions including IT, Data Privacy, InfoSec, OEC.• Work in close coordination with responsible attorneys/paralegals to comply with ESI protocols and identify key concepts as part of early case assessment; refine the custodian questionnaires and propose required data analytics options.• Manage the process for case closure at the conclusion of a matter.• Liaise with Records Management team to develop and refine processes to facilitate defensible destruction of ESI and physical assets.• Provides input on technology options to respond to specific discovery needs including but not limited to recommendations for products to perform early case assessment, handling data systems (SharePoint, Teams, Hard drive, Scan copies), collection & processing tools and document reviews in the most efficient, timely, and cost effective manner. • Contributes to regular briefings on new technology and process improvements about electronic discovery.• Present monthly data hosting and legal hold metrics reports to leadership team, to plan the strategize handling the cases with low data risk and cost effective.• Partner with litigation team to improve invoice review process by leveraging best practices and technology.• Standardize metadata profiles, ESI protocols, On-Boarding workflows etc. across all vendors and outside counsels.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Responsible for promoting and ensuring the effective use of current Litigation Technology to firm litigation matters. This includes, but not limited to, engaging with legal team, and providing technical support and assistance with the planning, design, development, application, and implementation of technologies.• Support Office of Ethics and Compliance team in internal investigations and litigation management.• Standardize current workflows and enhance process methods to forensically sound procedures. Also, document procedures and practices for future reference. Own the on-boarding process and train any new hires with standards and procedures. • Organize project kick off calls with internal paralegals, hosting vendors, and outside counsel to understand the scope of the project, timelines, expected deliverables etc.• Facilitate working relationship between Legal IT and third-party vendors, to assess the security of hosted data.• Perform forensic collections, process and host data using tools like NUIX Collector, FTK Imager, NUIX, Microsoft Security and Compliance portal, Relativity, and Legal Hold Pro.• Conduct and document custodian interviews (to identify data source locations and other potential custodians) with legal hold custodians, as and when needed.• Generate reports for annual data and statistical analysis.• Collaborate with stakeholders, Client Services, and Information Technology teams to analyze, collect, and/or preserve data from various structured systems• Created or drafted multiple workflow documentations such as Chain of Custody forms, How to Pre-process with AbbVie standards, Data Disposition Forms etc.

Worldwide, Oo

• Lead the Computer forensic team at the E-Discovery Solutions Center in Deloitte Hyderabad, conducting e-discovery/forensics examinations for multinational corporations in sectors such as technology, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, insurance, and financial services.• Led training initiative at Deloitte for eDiscovery- Process and Hosting. Main streams include, computer hardware, basics of Operating Systems, standard Computer Forensic tools, Artifacts etc.• Strong knowledge on EDRM model with experience in executing all eDiscovery projects end to end.• Delegated automation requirements to respective teams and identified process automations in multiple stages of eDiscovery process. Increased efficiency by designing automated workflows around laborious tasks.• Managed the team by assigning them with roles and responsibilities.• Reviewed work products and deliverables and assisted in quality review of deliverables.• Conducted regular project review meetings with internal Deloitte teams and put the plan into operation

Worldwide, Oo

• Performed extractions and conversions of Forensic Images using Forensic Tools like FTK, Encase.• Frequently requested examinations included deleted file analysis, internet history analysis, deleted email recovery, and file deletion recovery.• Responsibility also included crack password protected and encrypted files using methodologies such as rainbow tables, custom dictionaries, and brute force.• Has setup process environments for new projects according to client specifications.• Engaged in the field of E-discovery, involving designing and implementing processes for data processing and hosting.• Processed huge terabytes of data, both emails and user files. Creating the data sets and processing according to the client specifications.• Developed EnScripts in EnCase for custom jobs delegated by client.• Performed testing for all the new upgrades that happen on any tool and reported issues with concerned tool development team for fixes.• Scripted many SQL queries to generate reports about meta data, tool efficiency, missing custodian data tabs etc.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

• As an analyst most of the responsibilities included, Incident Response and forensic acquisition of digital evidence following forensically sound procedures ensuring evidence integrity.• Maintained Chain of Custody and Evidence Storage.• Worked on a wide variety of cases such as corporate financial fraud investigations, malware investigations in corporate networks, evidence recovery and analysis in tax evasion cases, mobile device evidence extraction for law enforcement agencies and log analysis for telecom companies.• Duties also included - Collection and Analysis of Volatile Data and Volatile Memory (RAM).• Recovered data from disks that may have been deleted, hidden, encrypted or damaged.• Performed data carving & recovery techniques on handheld device forensics like• PDAs, POS, padlock devices, pagers etc.• Explored various digital forensic tools and evaluated them to understand which works better in different situations as per case.• Being worked on multi-disciplinary projects, that helped in drafting standard operating procedures, checklists, and case documentation.• Drafted Chain of Custody Form and Evidence Seizure Memo for organization.• Performed Software Compliance Auditing of large-scale corporate networks.• For any Network Intrusion Attacks - Understanding the organizations network architecture and analysis of network device logs for identifying suspicious activity were the main duties.• Reported findings to detectives and other officials to evaluate its relevance to the case under investigation.