JAVI LOPEZ

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Victor, NY 14564 Mobile: 917-***-****

PROJECT MANAGER / OPERATIONS / ANALYST

Dedicated professional offering a unique combination of cross-functional skills that include several years of experience in the Litigation Support field managing and working on litigation projects from concept to completion, consulting clients and case-teams on budget, managing vendor relations, collection, reviews, as well as provide training for the successful completion of each project.

Skills: MS Office – Expertise in MS Word, Access, PowerPoint, Project and Excel; Content and Litigation Support Applications – iManage, Documentum, SharePoint, Concordance, Summation, Relativity, Eclipse, Lit iView, LAW,IPRO Ecap, IPRO Suite, CaseMap, LiveNote and TextMap

Personal Attributes: Resourceful / Team Builder / Interpersonal / Organized / Positive / Analytical

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Special Counsel, New York, NY 04/2011 – PRESENT

Setting the tone and rhythm for top-of-the-line products and solutions and providing first-class service

SENIOR LITIGATION SUPPORT PROJECT MANAGER

●Supported clients (legal, medical, corporate, financial and pharmaceutical fields) responding to regulatory, investigative and litigation requests in the proper collection and handling of highly sensitive information

●Serve as a single, point-of-contact for clients

●Prepare and execute project assumptions and estimates collected from RFPs and transactional clients

●From project initiation, created work orders and schedule appropriate staff hours to reflect services and work to be performed

●Create project summary statements and validate negotiated project scope for Statement of Work based on meetings with Client

●Act as liaison between clients and internal teams when resolving issues and/or implementing case/project specific requests

●Expedite the transfer of information (answers questions/requests in a timely manner) between all project stakeholders

●Maintain project tracking, reporting and metrics to ensure that all project stakeholders are current on the status of specific case requests

●Manage hosted review databases as well as support end users in planning, executing and closing of projects

●Create, organize and maintain files, including chronological files and indexes containing case files along with discovery documents, pleadings and correspondences (email or otherwise) using iManage, Documentum and/or SharePoint within law firm setting

●Prepare specifications and provide recommendations for filtering, processing and database administration

●Review search term list and provided suggestions on best terms to yield essential results within document and content management systems

●Train and mentor new Project Managers as well as managed Jr Project Manager group

F.E.G.S Health and Human Services System, Brooklyn, NY 05/2008 – 04/2011

Helping individuals achieve greater success, independence and dignity – at work, school, home, and in the community by a diverse network of cost-effective health and human services

SENIOR EMPLOPYMENT OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

●Worked with departmental managers to learn and understand their staffing needs and requirements for recruiting purposes

●Stayed within department and/or cost center overhead budgets when vetting and hiring individuals

●Provided onboarding training and schedules for new employees

●Hired individuals by working with staffing agencies, networking and posting job descriptions on job boards online and at local universities

●Provided in depth knowledge of company services, departments and its marketplace in the field to prospects

●Performed background and reference checks for all new hires

●Kept track of recruiting metrics (e.g. time-to-hire and cost-per-hire) as well as maintained a database of candidates

●Participated in job fairs and career events

Xact Data Discovery, New York, NY 11/2006 – 05/2008

International Data Discovery and Management company providing streamlined Forensic, Processing, Hosting, Document Review, Project Management, Imaging, Coding and Paper Discovery services to law firms, corporations and government agencies

OPERATIONS MANAGER

●Managed day to day operations including budgeting and payroll; managed a staff of 40 employees

●Served internally as the primary liaison between legal, IT, outside counsel and other business partners for purposes of coordinating and preparing for discovery in litigation and investigations

●Drafted and reviewed agreements for external IT services as they relate to E-Discovery and compliance

●Assessed, enhanced, developed, and documented discovery policies, best practices and procedures

●Imported and exported data, performed searches, generated reports, and prepared production sets

●Prepared recommendations, forecasting, budgeting, and project timelines

●Designed a program to track and monitor company inventory and property

●Reduced labor by 57% without sacrificing service and quality and reduced office spending by 36%

Pitney Bowes Management Services, New York, NY 09/2001 – 11/2006

Providing business communication software, mailing systems and services that integrate physical and digital communications channels

OPERATIONS MANAGER

● Provided forecasting, budgeting, and staffing capacity for projects

●Project managed all in house projects as well as projects outsourced to third-party vendors

●Oversaw the delivery of standard and custom load files along with images and natives files to be loaded to client’s database

●Established change control panel to have a systematic approach to manage and control changes within our processes

●Tracked production rates for all employees to ensure high productivity quotas

●Tracked cost of all material to maintain minimal operating cost

●Strictly monitor all labor, material, revenue and gross profit for departments daily

EDUCATION Kingsborough Community College / Brooklyn, NY 11235 / Associates in Applied Science, Business Administration / Degree Awarded 1998

Inter-American University of Puerto Rico / Guayama, Puerto Rico / Bachelors in Communications / Degree Awarded 2000

COMMUNITY / VOLUNTEER WORK

Archdiocese of Brooklyn and Queens, Brooklyn, NY 09/2007 – 06/2009

Most Precious Blood Parish

Goal was to establish community base efforts to keep Parish’s Catholic School doors open

● Chaired fund-raising communities

Through varies committees raised over $125,000 in a matter of 2 months to pay down school debts

● Chaired Finance committee

Recruited financial advisors to volunteer their time in developing a financially stable plan and budget that would support the continued operations of the school

● Chaired Enrollment committee

Sought to increase enrollment numbers thru targeted marketing to further support our established financial plan

● Media Relations point of contact

Provided print and televised interviews to obtain support and increase awareness for our cause

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