Sohaib Chaudhry

Springfield, VA ***** Email: ad37ue@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 703-***-****

OBJECTIVE

My background has given me hands on experience in all aspects of this position which would contribute to your organization goals and objectives by utilizing my exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, strong attention to detail, and unparalleled work ethics.

CLEARANCE LEVEL

Public Trust (Active)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Proficient with Microsoft Office applications – O365

Computer Hardware and software troubleshooting

Remedy

ServiceNow

Nessus Vulnerability scanning system

Linux OS for example Kali, Fedora, Red hat and Ubuntu

Rapid7 Metasploit (Penetration testing and site survey software)

Wireshark

Splunk

Airwatch for IOS devices

SCCM

Active Directory

Damware

SharePoint

Nuix

Relativity

Law

Eclipse

Nagios

Microsoft Purview

WORK EXPERIENCE

Niksoft (DOJ/OIG), Washington DC IT Specialist (E-discovery Project Coordinator) September 2019 to Present 40hr

Serves as the Litigation Support Specialist for the Eastern District of Virginia to provide E-Discovery support to our attorneys, paralegals, and investigators with partner agencies.

Coordinates with managers and supervisors to advise upper management of the requirements, priorities, and problem resolutions for the District’s business systems, the approval of the expenditure of funds for business-related systems, and the testing and acceptance of the products provided by our contractors or purchased by our main office to effect business goals and milestones.

Perform advanced search strategies like structured and conceptual analytical tools, including email threading, textual near duplication, clustering, keyword expansion, or similar document detection.

Partners with agency attorneys and high-power stakeholders to identify and develop specifications for upgrading E-Discovery tools, applications, and databases; budgets for future E-Discovery operations; and supervises the activities of contractors hired to assist in completing high volume E-Discovery projects.

Designs and executes search strategies and search terms for employing sophisticated E-Discovery tools to locate, recover, process, analyze, and organize potentially responsive electronically stored information (ESI), and ensures that procedures for the use of the E-Discovery tools are consistently followed based on industry best practices.

Develops and maintains databases that track the use of ESI, as well as produces reports associated with requests for and using ESI.

Provides agency attorneys, paralegals and team members with training and other technical assistance specifically dedicated to researching, reviewing, and retrieving ESI, including the operation of the E-Discovery tools.

Serves as technical expert in E-Discovery, process improvement and quality control roles for all criminal and civil cases.

Serves as eLitigation Technology Coordinator to the EOUSA, a subject matter expert role in E-Discovery to affect a transformative shift in the Department of Justice’s eLitigation proficiency.

Creates formal and informal documents, including standard of procedures, technology specific guide, lessons learned, and knowledge repository.

Coordinates with investigators from partner agencies, including, but not limited to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of State (DOS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DOD), and National Security Division (NSD) among others to standardize data transfer and to build trust and foster long term relationship and accountability.

Participates in industry specific and leadership trainings to advance both my knowledge and leadership skills.

Serves as a point of contact to resolve both internal and external stakeholder issues, concerns, and procedures.

Coordinates with attorneys and our technology team to satisfy court requirements for Grand Jury (GJ) materials that need processed and hosted in a review platform.

Maintains meticulous project tracking, project requests, and data tracking, including, but not limited to what data was received, processed, reviewed, and produced or withheld.

Performs data analysis and provides report to both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis.

Assists case teams in designing search terms to determine relevancy and responsiveness of ESI.

Identifies and applies applicable laws, best practices based on the EDRM model, policies and court requirements to process and produce ESI, including tiff conversion, load file generation, and data load to review platforms like Eclipse SE or Relativity as appropriate.

Advocates for team collaboration; instills team participation through active feedback and guidance.

Performs load file manipulation; creates custom fields, views, and layouts in review databases.

Coordinates with team members to enhance workflow for successful completion of projects.

Plans and coordinates short and long-term range plans and goals.

Conducts analysis and recommend resolutions of complex issues affecting the team and the office.

Champions DOJ process and procedures for E-Discovery related issues for defensible discovery of evidence.

Perform legal holds on outlook emails using PurView.

Perform outlook email purging using PurView.

CACI (SEC), Washington (DC) E-discovery Sr. Auditor March 2012 to June 2019 40hrs

Responsible for day to day litigation support functional needs of assigned cases, from case consultation on preservation, collection, processing and production.

Creates databases in Recommind and Concordance software.

Perform EDD work by using Recommind and put bates stamps once the EDD process gets completed.

Stage, ingest and perform QA for final product.

Populates and manipulates data which is provided in ANSI and UTF-8 format.

Perform overlay to correct the issues in the Database. For example, OCR overlay to correct the text issues in database and native overlay or image overlay.

Assesses incoming data as to size and formatting and generates scope reports.

Initiates pilot scenarios including sample/demo databases and testing/quality checking data.

Validates data and manages systems utilizing SOP as required.

Maintains orderly filing and organization scheme for media.

Over sees and coordinates with litigation support vendors.

Provides quality control on all aspects of data manipulation and production.

CSRA (NIH), Bethesda Senior Desktop Support Analyst Aug 2015 to June 2019 20hrs

Provided support for 800 users including desktop support functions, mapping printers, re-imaging workstations/laptops, fixing VPN issues Juniper or CISCO.

Setup and conducted VTC Video, teleconferences using Polycom equipment.

Added users accounts to active directory. Deploy workstations/laptops in Active Directory.

Activated RSA tokens through the RSA management server.

Managed the IPhone program that included activating users' accounts in Airwatch.

Troubleshooting problems remotely using Damwere or Bomgar. Supported the use of international Verizon cell phones.

Extensive use of Active Directory for adding/deleting workstations on the network, resetting domain account passwords, unlocking accounts, and enabling PIV Card in the directory.

Provides level 2/3 desktop support to the USDP and staff.

Created new Sites with Unique Permissions, List and Libraries, and included workflows and user groups

Performed troubleshooting SharePoint environments for resolving issues in production

Created and Managed SharePoint Groups and Permissions for Domain Users

Sets up Video Teleconferences (VTC's) based Tanberg VTC equipment through direct connection or through a Codian Bridge.

DOT, Washington DC Student Intern (IT Spec.) Aug 2014 to Aug 2015 40hrs

Providing second level support for the Information Technology (IT) Help Desk.

Working with the Tier 2 support staff to triage IT issues, and record them in ticket tracking system.

Push out patches across the organization network, maintain user account in Active Directory.

Prioritizing issues based on standard operating procedures and service level agreements.

Following standard operating procedures to resolve customer questions/problems concerning automation systems, software/hardware issues, password security violations, telecommunication troubles and work orders.

Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting hardware ensuring information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices are adhered to.

Maintaining an automated trouble ticket system.

Developing, coordinating and assisting in the operation of IT equipment organizing and distributing PC's.

Installing new software versions and updates and configures hardware and/or user systems for effective integration of software systems.

Interacting with users to ensure proper operation of computer systems, hardware, and software

Automating repetitive tasks such as ghosting software images and software.

Hewlett-Packard (DOD), Alexandria VA—DMDC Support Agent Tier 2 July 2011 to March 2012 40hrs

Answer all incoming calls in timely and professional manner.

Create tickets as per problem using “Clarify”, update information and troubleshooting process. If ticket remains unsolved, forwarded to next level team.

Resolve clients’ software and network issues using all available resources.

Remotely access client servers, PCs and/or network devices to troubleshoot issues.

Analyze captures to isolate network and performance issues.

Install new maintenance releases of the software.

Work with a team of implementation techs and other coworkers to accurately provide solutions to clients.

Work with a team of developers to research the existing issues in software and network for a better development of new software and patches.

Document all work in a professional manner as instructed.

Escalate unresolved issues as needed.

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

President’s Education Awards

Student Achievement Certificate in Biology

EDUCATION

Teacher Appreciation Award

George Mason Dean’s list Award

M.S in IT Cyber Security (2022)

George mason university Fairfax, Virginia

oWith 3.7 GPA

B.S in IT Cyber Security (2020)

George mason university Fairfax, Virginia

oWith 3.3 GPA

Robert E. Lee High School Springfield, Virginia

oWith 3.7 GPA

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