Project Manager Data
Resume:
ROGELIO VARGAS, JR. (Roger)
Brooklyn, NY 11220
917-***-**** cell
EDUCATION:
BBA, Marketing Management Lotus Notes R5 Domino
Baruch College (New York, NY) New Horizons Computer Learning Center (New York, NY)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Kroll Ontrack (New York, NY)
Case Manager January 2012 to October 2015
Collaborated with clients to define and manage execution through the e-discovery life cycle of the project including collection, processing, review and document production through initiating a project, conducting needs assessments, organizing deliverables, maintaining project costs and deadlines.
Served as the primary point of contact for clients leveraging e-discovery processes and technology resources to manage projects to meet scope, cost, and quality of the project and deliver on time.
Coordinated with internal resources to achieve desired outcome in regard to database customization, custom reporting, processing of data, collection resources, document review resources, and production output.
Worked closely with clients in multiple markets to help convert a client’s e-discovery needs into cost effective and scalable solutions.
Provided thorough, accurate and timely communication to clients ensuring they understand the status of a project including but not limited to deliverable and financials; set and refined client expectations as project scope changed.
Successfully managed multiple concurrent e-discovery projects from initiating to closing.
Effectively led and utilized team to meet the needs of a project through communicating of work direction and efficient delegation, monitoring and inspection of tasks.
Provided collaborative support to clients on company products and services such as system access, search creation, problem resolution while developing strong client relationships through consultative service aligned with the broader needs of the client ensuring a superior client experience.
Managed multiple projects/databases, deadlines and relationships with clients and/or law firms.
Assisted and as necessary performed technical database management activities such as: ran searches in database applications, built production subsets, managed user accounts and database maintenance.
Reviewed, conducted quality control and determined discrepancies pertaining to data loading, such as with load files, data corruption and invalid loading specifications on client’s data.
Merrill Legal Solutions (New York, NY)
Senior Project Manager October 2008 to December 2011
Served as Senior Project Manager and internal liaison between Consultants and Sales, and outside clients.
Direct responsibilities to support, scope, oversee, coordinate and track e-discovery project progress and workflow from inception to hosting and communicated status back to Manager, Sales team, Consultants and clients.
Consulted with and advised clients and multi-location case teams regarding FRCP rules, preservation, collection, review, and production of electronic documents.
Assisted Sales Engineers and Consultants with developing and managing the tasks on a project including set up, project management and delivery.
Oversaw and managed quality of e-discovery, scanning, coding, printing and hosting projects.
Managed support staff relationships to ensure the delivery of client projects on time and within budget.
Supervised and monitored staff in order to plan, direct and monitor case-specific litigation projects, and reported to Consultant or Director regarding project status reports and urgent issues that arose.
Strove to foster and facilitate a team environment.
Developed recommendations, plans, status reports, procedures, and specifications for case-specific projects.
Assisted and as necessary performed technical data management activities such as: data loading into database applications, image loading into imaging viewing applications, CD-ROM creation, building production subsets, and database maintenance.
Reviewed, conducted quality control and determined discrepancies pertaining to data loading, such as with load files, data corruption and invalid loading specifications on clients’ data.
DOAR Litigation Consulting (Long Island, NY)
Associate, Litigation Support Consultant July 2006 to October 2008
Served as project manager and internal liaison between consultants/directors and operational teams.
Direct responsibility to oversee, coordinate and track project progress and workflow from inception to trial and communicated status back to consultant.
Assisted Consultants with developing and managing the tasks on a project including design, set up, project management, delivery, and quality of scanning, coding, printing, e-discovery and repository projects.
Managed support staff relationships to ensure the delivery of client projects on time and within budget.
Supervised and monitored staff in order to plan, direct and monitor case-specific litigation projects, and reported to Consultant or Director regarding project status reports and urgent issues that arose.
Developed recommendations, plans, status reports, procedures, and specifications for case-specific discovery to trial.
Strove to foster and facilitate a team environment.
Coordinated projects with programmers and Litigation Operations Department.
Lovells (New York, NY)
Litigation Support Specialist & Sr. Litigation Legal Assistant December 2002 to July 2006
Provided litigation support and legal assistant services to Lovells’ attorneys in the New York office.
Served as the single point of contact for case team attorneys and paralegals for all assigned cases employing litigation support technology and services.
Performed technical data management activities such as: data loading into database applications, image loading into imaging viewing applications, CD-ROM creation, building production subsets, and database maintenance; primary applications used were Ringtail.
Resolved discrepancies pertaining to data loading, such as with load files, data corruption and invalid loading specifications.
Maintained and troubleshot litigation databases (performed data normalization, global edits, removed duplicates, overlayed or merged data into existing records, index and pack databases).
Prepared attorneys for travel by transferring data from the network onto laptops.
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (New York, NY)
Litigation Legal Assistant March 1998 to December 2002
Performed cite checking and shepardized documents.
Performed on-line document searches for litigation attorney.
Assisted in preparation of depositions and briefs.
Managed caseload involving several different litigation projects.
Extensive experience on cases involving large document productions.
Participated and assisted with attorneys on document reviews.
Assisted in coordinating and preparing client documents for case database.
Utilized litigation support technology to manage case related evidentiary materials.
Used and maintained databases on JFS Litigator's Notebook and JazzNotes.
Selected, worked with and managed outside service bureaus, which provided imaging and database services.
Maintained and organized on-line client document files.
Performed on-line document coding, redacting and indexing.
Trained and supervised new temps for litigation support projects.
LITIGATION SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE:
Concordance Summation Kroll Inview JFS Litigator's Notebook
MS Access IPRO Kroll EDR JFS JazzNotes
Lextranet Lexis-Nexis Ringtail Catalyst
Opticon MS Excel Relativity Adobe Acrobat
MS Word MS Outlook Text Pad CD Writer
MS PowerPoint UltraEdit Lotus Notes Kroll Advanceview
References available upon request.
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