SHELLY COVINGTON Houston, TX *****
*********.*********@*****.*** 702-***-**** (cell)
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• More than 7 years professional experience in providing project, research and administrative support,
document review and coding, contracts administration and management, academic and legal research
• Certified Paralegal and Litigation Electronic Discovery Analyst with technical and legal experience in
the Engineering and Oil & Gas industry emphasizing Oil and Gas lease and title documents,
contracts, large data handling, document production, quality assurance and records management
• Excellent research, writing, communicative and analytical skills
• Experience reviewing and coding Oil and Gas title documents, title opinions, agreements and
contracts, division orders, Oil and Gas leases and plats.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Relativity • MS Access Advanced • SharePoint
• Summation • MS Word Advanced • Livelink
• Concordance • MS Excel Advanced • Visio
• Introspect 6 • MS Outlook • Acrobat X
• Document Review • Document Management • Indexing/Coding
EDUCATION
• Paralegal Studies Certificate, University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV 2011
• M.A., International Affairs & Development, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 2005
OIL AND GAS EXPERIENCE
DOCUMENT TECHNOLOGIES INC (DTI-PROVIDUS), Houston, TX 7/2013-Present
Document Coding Specialist (Oil & Gas Contract project)
• Conduct Tier 1 objective coding by review and analysis of scanned electronic Oil & Gas documents
for specific predefined metadata within Relativity database
• Code and maintain a production rate of no less than 30 documents per hour on every batch of 50
• Maintain an accuracy rate of at least 90% on all coded document batches
• Identify and escalate documents with scanning errors to Quality Control team
• Support Quality Control and Team Leads to ensure coding completeness and accuracy of data entry
and compliance to project standards and protocol.
• Implement rule changes to data entry from coding protocols to meet client quality expectations
• Work a minimum of 50 hours per week
KBR (AllStates Technical), Houston, TX 01/2013-7/2013
eDiscovery Document Reviewer (Contractor)
• Reviewed and tracked electronic documents for large scale and high volume litigation discovery
• Reviewed native documents in TIFF, PDF, HTML and applications with redaction and coding
capabilities
• Accelerated document production by reviewing up to 700 electronic documents per day for issue
responsiveness and non-responsiveness and attorney-client privilege
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Maintained protocol and compliance with project guidelines and confidentiality agreements
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Executed quality control, confidentiality and attorney work product privilege reviews
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Performed troubleshooting on litigation support applications
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SYNERGY LEGAL, Houston, TX 6/2012-12/2012
Document Reviewer (Oil & Gas Contract Project)
• Analyzed and reviewed a large volume of E&P files for a major Fortune 500 Energy corporation for
litigation discovery and production
• Indexed an average of 10 boxes per day containing between 50 to 100 files into client database
• Conducted data checking in client internal records management database
• Lifted boxes up to 50 lbs. to chest height for moving physical boxes of E&P records and files
PROJECT SUPPORT AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Ethiopian Community Development Council, Las Vegas, NV 2010-2011
Intake Coordinator
• Managed all clerical support to case managers including proofreading, filing and compiling reports
• Maintained sensitive refugee client information in a FoxPro database
• Managed all administrative support to case managers including proofreading, filing and compiling
reports
CARE-Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance Unit, Atlanta, GA 2003-2005
Research Assistant
• Designed and implemented new search interface for CARE USA monitoring and evaluation section
on a Livelink portal
• Promoted lesson-learning and institutional development by liaising with cross-functional staff
members to collect, store and manage evaluative studies of recent and current humanitarian action
projects
• Successfully maintained and updated file name nomenclature for easier and more efficient searches
• Prepared written and electronic training materials for overseas field and office staff
• Prepared weekly statistical reports to Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Advisor using Microsoft Excel
• Analyzed data and wrote reports on pre-war and post-war funding trends for an Iraq Crisis Real Time
Evaluation
1890 Research & Extension-South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC 1999-2002
Research Assistant
• Organized statistical data using SPSS and Microsoft Excel
• Transcribed and coded information from project interviews
• Measured impact of state welfare reform legislation on former TANF recipients under direction of
Principal Investigator
• Gave presentations at several forums on International Politics and Diplomacy
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