Talent Showcase – May 2013
May 21st, 2013
The Davidson Group is a leading recruitment agency serving the legal, technical, and financial industries. Each month we highlight some of our best candidates. Our May 2013 Talent Showcase includes:
Candidate #6033 – Litigation Consultant/Project Manager – Northeast Region
Relevant Experience:
- Serve as mentor to project managers. Assisting and guiding the development of project managers.
- Utilize consultative skills to provide guidance to legal case teams in the areas of data identification, forensic collections, data processing, document review/production, and project budgeting.
- Create and implement initial project scoping, planning, and budgeting with legal case teams in an effort to set expectations accordingly from onset of projects.
- Implement and document best practices in an effort to foster defensible repeatable processes.
- Ability to use inherent excellent communication and cognitive skills to analyze and communicate legal case teams’ requests and needs to various parties.
- Expert on logic and implementation of predictive coding.
- Responsible for tracking and reporting project status and progress on a daily basis.
- Proactively provide data reports, financial statistics, etc. to legal case teams.
- Nimble and flexible “out of the box” thinker able to accurately meet all project needs and deadlines.
- Self motivated project manager responsible for managing key corporate, law firm, and vendor relationships.
- Expertise in most litigation support software.
Relevant Accomplishments:
- Managed many 2nd request matters, international matters, internal investigation matters, Joint Defense Group matters in all types of litigation.
- Identified de-duplication error and was pivotal in altering algorithm to resolve de-duplication error.
- Consistently minimize cost impacts to clients by identifying best practices and solutions.
- Ensured that client did not lose $100 million by mitigating risk to meeting stringent production deadlines while providing on time and accurate deliverables.
- Pivotal in creation of litigation hold software which automated litigation hold process.
For more information regarding this candidate or other candidates with similar qualifications, please contact us by sending email to jobs@davidsongroup.com or call us at 415-893-1020.
Candidate #18787 – Senior Director Discovery/Information Risk Management – Northeast
Relevant Experience & Accomplishments:
Award winning, results driven leader with senior-level experience in all aspects of business management, including, P&L, program/project management, process development, cross-functional team building and management, professional services and operational management. Expertise in the areas of information risk, eDiscovery, data privacy and regulatory compliance. Experience in both mature and start-up environments in addition to consumer and regulated industries including, the financial services, technology and biotechnology arenas.
eDiscovery
- Developed global, in-house eDiscovery practice that aligned with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). Recognized 80% annual cost savings.
- Supported litigations, internal investigations, regulatory inquiries and other eDiscovery requests. Established end-to-end defensible business and IT processes and formalized cross-functional eDiscovery operational and maturity models.
- 2010 STAR of Excellence award winner. Recognized for leading the cross-functional business and technical aspects for global information/records management and eDiscovery initiatives.
Global Information Risk Management & Consulting
- Provided oversight and governance for all global risk & regulatory domain activities for a financial services firm with $40B in annual revenue; reported to the chief information risk officer.
- Served as partner and liaison for compliance, privacy, legal, and IT stakeholders. Integrated requirements/controls defined by stakeholders into the development of policies, processes, methodologies, standards, metrics and emerging technology; co-developed global information protection strategy and program.
- Delivered risk consulting and subject matter expertise for emerging technology initiatives such as, cloud computing, collaboration, BYOD, and mobile device strategy development.
Professional Service Management
- Catapulted professional services to $9M in annual revenue within 18 months and built a 43-person staff.
- Managed P&L of up to $20M within a diversity of businesses ranging from startup to multibillion-dollar corporations.
- Elevated project revenue from $3M to $20M while recognizing a 40% profit margin by identifying additional revenue opportunities and tightening project management controls and processes.
For more information regarding this candidate or other candidates with similar qualifications, please contact us by sending email to jobs@davidsongroup.com or call us at 415-893-1020.
Candidate #8270 –Business Development Executive – Northeast
Results-driven, decisive, business development executive with a successful track record of closing enterprise-wide solutions in the information, publishing and legal industries.
Relevant Experience:
- Top-ranked business development executive with 10+ years of sales success
- Broad legal background including in-house and litigation experience
- Recognized for contributions to record-setting sales figures, territory startup/expansion and new account development
- Offer an in-depth understanding of the sales cycle process and remain focused on customer satisfaction throughout all stages
- Effective concept selling to “C” level Fortune 1000 executives
- Excellent negotiator and communicator -quickly establish rapport, build credibility and cultivate lasting relationships with major accounts.
Accomplishments:
- Consistent track record of exceeding quota for the past 8 years by identifying, developing and managing complex sales opportunities and introducing new strategies to gain entry to C-level decision makers
- Winner of several major sales awards, including Circle of Excellence, President’s Club, National Sales Rep of the Year and Consultant of the Year
- Successfully penetrated over 100 of the Fortune 500 companies including energy, oil and gas, financial, pharmaceutical
- Successfully created and implemented sales strategies for two startup legal and compliance organizations
For more information regarding this candidate or other candidates with similar qualifications, please contact us by sending email to jobs@davidsongroup.com or call us at 415-893-1020.
