Whitney M. Spigener
Niantic, CT 06357
Home: 860-***-****
Email: *******.********@*****.***
Objective: To utilize my education and experience in Project Management
in the capacity of long term, permanent employment. I am a
result-driven project management professional with excellent
skills in managing diverse, complex, high-profile projects with
proven ability to deliver substantial improvements in revenue,
productivity, and quality assurance through well-managed, on-time
projects.
Education: Bachelor of Science, Workforce Education Training &
Development
Southern Illinois University Carbondale 2006 - 2007
Associates of Science, General Studies
Three Rivers Community College 2001-2007
PMP Certification Class, Northeast Indiana Chapter of PMI 2008
Experience: September 2008 - Present: Stroz Friedberg, LLC - E-
discovery Project Manager
. Goal oriented Project Manager responsible for the successful
planning, documentation, implementation, support and
completion of hundreds of E-discovery and Litigation Support
projects.
. Dynamic leader responsible for projects ranging across
multiple industries and all client sizes including Local,
State and Federal Government agencies, multi-nationals and
NGO's.
. Responsible for planning, handling and execution of
confidential and classified data.
. Responsible for the successful forensic harvesting of
hundreds of terabytes of data across thousands of client
systems.
. Manage the daily activities and work load of up to seven
individuals pulled from a Matrix environment depending upon
project budget, timeline and requirements.
. Provide relationship managers and clients with cost
estimates; cost analysis, work flows, data requirement
manuals, design manuals, technical specification s and time
to completion estimates.
. Collaborate with programming to generate PERL, SQL, PL-SQL,
and VB scripts based upon the abstract data and specific
data flow requirements.
. Communicate with our clients to create the right workflow,
address changes to the scope, size, charter or project plan,
understand client deadlines and deliverables, work within
the set budget for each project and establish the frequency
of updates by the team.
. Support sales in product demonstrations, explanation of
technical issues and capabilities with existing and
potential clients.
. Responsible for converting data and creating load files for
client specific software packages such as Opticon, IPRO,
Summation and Ringtail, sqlldr etc.
. Provide detailed tracking and breakdown of billing
associated with individual projects by all matrixed members
of the effort.
. Work directly with software development team in order to
enhance the project management workflow system and user
experience. Act as client advocate for changes or
enhancements to proprietary SF systems.
. Create project user manuals, training guidelines and
tutorials for clients using proprietary project management
workflow systems.
. Train clients, staff and outside vendors on the use of the
proprietary production and review tools.
. Mentor junior project managers and assist in the recruitment
and continuing success of a diverse and talented workforce.
October 2007 - February 2008: Daegis - Senior Project Manager
. Goal oriented Project Manager responsible for the successful
planning, documentation, implementation, support and
completion of E-discovery and Litigation Support projects.
. Act as single point of contact for numerous clients.
. Provide relationship managers and clients with cost
estimates; cost analysis, work flows, data requirement
manuals, design manuals, technical specification s and time
to completion estimates.
. Designed and Delivered Quality Control methods and
procedures intended to improve the client side graphical
user interface and performance of backend database systems.
. Worked closely with senior staff managers in various
departments to ensure schedules are met.
. Convened and hosted project initiation meetings, data design
and data stewardship sessions with new and existing clients
to determine the most cost effective technique to process
their data.
. Managed all projects from start to completion, including
design meetings, specifications, and the formulation of
client driven status reports.
October 2002 - October 2007: Daticon, LLC - Senior Project
Manager
. Goal oriented Project Manager responsible for the successful
planning, documentation, implementation, support and
completion of E-discovery, Paper scanning and Litigation
Support projects.
. Managed one of the company's largest accounts involving a
top 10 Fortune 500 client.
. Acted as the client's single point of contact for overall
project status and successful project delivery.
. Worked closely with senior staff managers and relationship
managers across the enterprise to ensure schedules were met.
. Coordinated project team activities.
. Designed and implemented client start up procedures and best
practices within the given industry type and requirements of
the litigation involved.
. Successfully led projects exceeding a quarter of company
revenue totaling in value more than $250 million USD over a
five year period.
. Designed solutions for multiple clients using Concordance,
and Summation.
. Prepared monthly invoicing, cost estimates and plan vs.
actual budget allocation reports for all clients.
December 2001 - October 2002: Daticon LLC - Project Coordinator
. Managed subsets of data for various project managers.
. Compiled reports, charts, and graphs for projects based on
data mining requests.
. Provided in depth data analysis and forecast projections.
. Managed project schedules and maintained project
documentation records.
. Filed data and related information, as well as maintained
and updated various SQL databases.
. Designed and implemented multiple data validation workflows,
sub-routines and SQL scripts designed to scrub raw client
data and extract or identify specific issues with data prior
to processing.
March 2001 - October 2001: Daticon LLC - Project Management
Assistant
. Assisted project managers with daily activities of projects.
. Worked as an asset within a matrix environment and responded
to requests from Project Managers and the PMO for support.
. Completed form letters in response to requests or problems
identified by correspondence.
. Maintained files and control records to show correspondence
activities. Prepared data and boxes for shipment by armed
courier.
August 1999 - March 2001: Daticon LLC - Document Analyst
. Compiled, sorted, and verified the accuracy of prior to
processing and loading.
References Furnished Upon Request