Data Analyst, Project manager
Resume:
SAMUEL L HARRIS
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SKILLS
E-Discovery (EDD)
Have performed all aspects of E-Discovery from analyzing and introducing industry-specific software and platforms to forensics including:
Data Analytics
• Responsible for the preserved copying of the “collection” to the network, importing the project into the discovery software, the complete text extraction/metadata extraction of the files, the processing of the files.
• Capturing e-docs using E-Capture, Captiva, Imanage, Opticon and the over-all manipulation of legal data to be mined, culled, analyzed, trasported into perspective data-bases and applications.
• QCing (Quality Assurance) the files afterwards for properly formatting, exporting of the files, file/load file creating and preparing the media for delivery utilizing the following:
Law 4.0, IPRO ( E-Capture), Captiva
Kasowitz, Benson and Torres, Bingham McCutchen
IKon, Inc
Planet Data
The Medleh Group (Houston, Tx)
EnCase
Philip Nizer
Software Proficiencies
ClearWell
Summation RingTail
Concordance JFS Notebook
IPro Suite( V-Code, E-Capture, E-Build) West Case Notebook
Iconnect, CaseMap
Opticon, Trial Director
LiveNote,
RingTail Coding/ Document Imaging programs and Legal data bases I.e. Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw, and CPI.
Monitoring policy and compliance methodolgies i.e KYC databases,
Project Manager
• Managed legal projects in Houston, Cairo, Egypt, Nairobi Kenya and Kuwait City, Kuwait law firms.
• Bringing firms up-to-date with compliance (SOX), EU (Safe Harbor), FISMA etc.
• Introductions to legal technological applications and transformations.
• Familiar with most EDD and ESI protocols.
Data Base Specialist
• Familiar with most databases used in law firms i.e. Access, SQL server, Concordance, Ipro, Summation, LiveNote, Iconnect.,EBSCO, RIC & ERIC Data Collections
• “Front-end” and “Back-end” experience.
Network Administrator
• Experience with TCP/IP and Netware protocols.
• Trained A Plus, Network Plus, MCSA (Certification for SQL Server 2005).
• E-commerce certified.
• Completed course for MCSE.
• Microsoft Professional Specialist with specialty in Database Administration.
I.T. Content Manager
DB2 (Data Base) software, including SQL, EIP multiplatform, Unix 20P4144 and DB2 Records management in Unix, AIX, and Linux environments.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
06/08- Present Rasna Enterprises, LLP; New York, NY
Commodities Broker/ Contract Specialist (cash market)
Currently run an home-based, online commodities brokerage and consultant firm arranging, reviewing contracts financial instruments (Letters of Credit and Bank Guarantees) for goods to be exported by bringing principals together with such commodities as iron ore, cement and fuel products.
Legal Contract work employed by Marathon International/ International Development Group
06/08-10/09
Litigation Project Manager/ Data Analyst
Contracted to AAB (African Arab Bank) Cairo, Egypt and Nairobi, Kenya spearheading, exploring new Litigation and E-discovery strategies. Duties included Litigation Data Analysis (Litigation Analysis), auditing and Extract-Transform-Load for Business Intelligence (ETL for BI, or data warehousing for business and legal data analysis) implementing some design and administration in SQL Server and Litigation software; loading and verifying data.
05/05- 07/05 Law Firm of Labeed Abdal; Kuwait City, Kuwait/ Cairo Egypt
Legal Project Manager
Worked with consortium of law firms in the Gulf region and Egypt as a consultant for new Litigation technology; exploring implementations of SOX Compliance laws regarding new Legal applications for that region.
04/02-08/02 IT MISR (Egypt); Cairo, Egypt
Project Manager
Worked with Egyptian information Technology (IT MISR) during a 3-month hiatus to Egypt in the deployment of web sites and training of employees for e-Commerce as Content Manager and paralegal consultant with specialty in Global Compliance laws.
Contract work employed by Esquire Legal Solutions, LLP
07/07-06/08 *Kasowitz, Benson, Torres and Friedman
Litigation Support Data Analyst
*Re-contracted back to KBTF to review, format, and manipulate data for case-specific projects stored in litigation support applications I.e. Concordance, Summation, Law 4.0 imported such data into SQL and Citrix servers, SharePoint Servers in correspondence to lawyer’s request e.g. Printing, scanning etc.
01/07-06/07 Kirkland and Ellis, LLP; New York, NY
Litigation Support Specialist/ Technologist/Network Administrator
Maintained, administered, and manipulated legal applications with SQL server utilizing T-SQL Server programming language and code. LiveNote and Iconnect were key applications for web casting and interfacing with clients; setting up these programs was important to my duties.
07/05 -09/05 Kasowitz, Benson, Torres and Friedman (Esqire Legal Solutions), Paramount Studio Tower; New York, NY
Litigation Technology Consultant
Contracted as a Litigation Technology Specialist, overseeing the workflow and analysis of various litigation software (Concordance, Ipro, Documentum, Filenet, Summation and Doculex.
Assisted in the favorable judgment for client in a highly profiled lawsuit.
02/05-05/05 Bingham and McCutchen; New York, NY
Litigation Support Technologist and Specialist
Over-seeing Litigation projects for legal firm; training lawyers on a variety of software I.e. Concordance, Live-Notes, Sanction, Summation and managing databases including MS Access, Concordance, Citrex servers and Elipsis.
03/06 -11/06 Kohn, Swift and Graf; Philadelphia, PA
Document Management Reviewing
Filing sensitive legal documents for litigation processes and preparing these documents to be loaded into litigation databases.
09/05 – 03/06 The Medleh Group (TFI – New Law, Inc.; Houston, TX
Litigation Support Specialist
Duties included Quality Control maintenance of those employed as coders and scanners; contract reviewing and creating reports for Litigation Department business and legal analysis.
06/04 – 01//05 Fanning Staffing; Brooklyn, New York, NY
Litigation Support Specialist
Contracted to Planet Data, a well- respected and prestigious company in the Document Imaging industry, preparing databases, coding, scanning sensitive government and corporate documents for clients.
01/04 -06/04 IKON, Corp; New York, NY
Litigation Support Specialist
Employed as legal Document Coder; coding and scanning sensitive Government and Corporate documents.
09/03-01/04 Paul Weiss Law Firm (Asset Staffing, Inc.); New York, NY
Paralegal and Litigation Support Specialist
Paralegal and Document specialist for prestigious, major law Real Estate law firm. Duties included abstracting leases and commercial holdings for corporate clients. Managing Real Estate data-bases including Eclipse.
05/03 – 09/03 Norvergence Corporation, Inc. (Nortel Corp); Newark, NJ
System Administrator
Assisted Senior Systems Administrator at entrance to mid-level capacity, overseeing the continued work flow of over 300 work-stations for a call center utilizing network-able telephonic applications.
01/03-05/03 State Office of the Attorney General of New York
Administrative Assistant
Worked in AA pool assisting lawyers in Brief and Motions development and Litigation Support.
05/01-12/02 New York State Department of Insurance; New York, NY
Paralegal
Paralegal for Office of General Council for the New York Attorney General’s Office. Duties included:
• Head of Department’s Law Library
• Paralegal duties assisting 29 lawyers, including research
• Taking depositions (non-steno) and proofreading
• Managed databases for abstracting licensing, Certificates of Insurance, and property abstractions.
• Opened and closed cases and files using these databases.
• Supervised team involved with bibliographical and inventory coding and indexing legal documents using split-screen imaging databases for IBM (in-house database), IPRO, Summation and Concordance.
05/98-02/02 Joel C. Katz Law Library (University of Tenn.); Knoxville, TN
Legal Researcher
Assisted head librarian and law students with obtaining legal materials utilizing latest state-of-the-art Data Capturing, OCR/Image Processors and microfilm/Fiche indexing, as well as Document coding software.( IPRO V-Code), Concordance.
Internet Content Manager
Established a comprehensive business plan and strategic objectives for web sites (IT MISR) Created and monitored budgets.
EDUCATION
Bishop College; BA Legal Applications (1987-’89); Dallas, TX
Los Angeles Community College; BA Communications (1985-’87); Los Angeles, CA
Data Flight, Inc/ Lexis-Nexis
Certification in process; Trainer for DataFlight Legal software (Concordance, FYI, CaseMap, Opticon).
NetCom Information Technology; Certification (03/03-08/08); Queens, NY
Completed A+, Network +, MSCA, MSCE, MDBA courses in preparation for certification. SQL Server 2005.
ICEC (International Center for E-commerce); Certification (04/02-07/02); Cairo, Egypt
Career Educational International Group; Certification (06/00-10/00); NY, NY
Global Compliance; International Business.
Firms Contracted to as Litigation Project Manager
Marathon International
International Development Group
Gilbert and Associates, International LLC; Denver, CO
The Medleh Group; Houston, TX
Esquire Legal Solutions; New York, NY
Law Firms Contracted to as Litigation Specialist Consultant/ Paralegal by
Marathon International
Arab-African Bank; Cairo, Egypt; Nairobi, Kenya
Labeed Abdel Law Firm; Kuwait City, Kuwait
Law Firms Contracted to as Litigation Specialist Consultant/ Paralegal by
Esquire Legal Solutions, LLP
Kohn, Swift and Graf; Philadelphia, PA
Kasowitz, Benson,
Torres, and Friedman; New York, NY
Bingham McCutchen; New York, NY
Stroock, Stroock and
Lavan; New York, NY
Phillip Nizer New York, NY
Paul Weiss; New York, NY
References provided on request.
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