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Charles "Chas" Meier

Charles "Chas" Meier

Glendale,CA

Summary

Charles “Chas” is a dedicated and hands on Information Technology professional with a proven history of meeting company goals by aligning with business stakeholders to develop ideas into solutions and drive solutions to scale in order to delight clients and drive results. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Advisory Managing Director

KPMG US
Los Angeles, CA
05.2002 - Current
  • Led a team of 65 onshore and offshore resources responsible for operation, support, and optimization of a portfolio of hosted solutions supporting over 2,100 engagements and over 7,000 users.
  • Led service delivery optimization initiative for unstructured data processing leveraging principles of process standardization, offshoring, and automation resulting in unit cost reduction of 90% while increasing annual processing volume by 200%.
  • Led client facing service management team and maintained 90% resolution time target SLO for critical and severe tickets.
  • Introduced system monitoring tools (Uptrends / Datadog) for application uptime tracking and proactive monitoring of incident precursor issues.
  • Led application portfolio cost transparency initiative that consolidated over 200,000 general ledger records for technology expenses, tagged each by solution, and type (consumption, labor, expense, license, and professional service). Run and operate charge codes were created for each application seeded with results and refined over subsequent fiscal years to provide application TCO and further optimize costs by rightsizing infrastructure, license, and labor.
  • Cloud transformation champion for technical evaluation, security, and risk assessment process to evaluate Relativity One SaaS eDiscovery platform and migration of on-premise Relativity estate engagements to cloud.
  • Led evaluation of Microsoft O365 (Compliance Center and Advanced eDiscovery) for preservation, collection, processing, and ingestion into document review tools.
  • Presented “Understand Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery in the Real-World” at Microsoft's 2016 Ignite Conference.
  • Participated in O365 client technology briefings and go to market.
  • Champion for on-premise buildout and ongoing operation of KPMG's Dallas and Montvale Data Centers for hosting eDiscovery tools Nuix, Brainspace, and Relativity.
  • Responsible for ongoing operations, service management, and compliance management (SOC2) for those environments.
  • Client Facing Software, Led a team of 40 onshore and offshore developers responsible for architecture, design, development, quality, and L3/L4 support for a suite of proprietary eDiscovery solutions.
  • Leveraged Agile software development methodology using Microsoft Team Foundation Services and established automated release pipeline to build, package, release, test through automation.
  • Executive sponsor and chief architect for 5 generations of Discovery Radar (hosted SaaS offering with over 1200 external users and hundreds of millions of pages managed) since acquired from Arthur Andersen and rebranded.
  • Significant milestones include: integrating enterprise scale document processing and early case assessment, unsupervised clustering, supervised relevance classifier, and near duplicate and email thread analysis.
  • Development sponsor and chief architect for KTrace and KDAT structured data analytics platforms. These products support large libraries of tests to be executed against structured data and aggregated in a scoring system influenced by a battery of scoping questions.
  • Development sponsor and chief architect for KPMG's Evidence Tracker system which tracks source media from collection/receipt through production.

Director

Arthur Andersen
Los Angeles, CA
04.1999 - 05.2002
  • Led team of 15 developers responsible for architecture, design, development, quality, and L3/L4 support for a proprietary eDiscovery solution (rebranded as “Arthur”).
  • Managed transition of technology and team after acquisition from Hennigan, Mercer, and Bennett in April 1999 and scaled quickly to support Andersen's growing portfolio of eDiscovery Advisory Services.
  • Supported Andersen / Enron Litigation and was referenced in the WSJ Article ( https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1021946441550454120 ).
  • Grew technology and support teams and addressed scalability needs of Andersen's portfolio of clients in Tobacco Litigation, Insurance, and Manufacturing.
  • Created and maintained public and plaintiff websites for a leading tobacco company as required by the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

Lead Software Developer

Hennigan, Mercer, & Bennett
Los Angeles, CA, CA
03.1995 - 04.1999
  • Led Architecture and development for document conversion, review, and production systems.
  • Designed and developed initial versions of Voyager document scan, import, index, review, OCR, and export utilities.
  • Adapted document conversion systems to support large scale claims processing used in support of the Orange County Bankruptcy.
  • Created video deposition management system that synchronized time encoded transcripts with digital video. The system supported search and retrieval, bookmarking, and snippet editing.

Lead Developer

Stone & Webster Engineering / LADWP
Los Angeles, CA
07.1987 - 03.1995
  • Lead Developer for enterprise wide records management system ( EZRA ) that supported search of bibliographic citations and managed retrieval of documents stored as physical hardcopy in retention centers, 16mm microfilm, and document image viewing on desktop computers.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Louisiana State University And A&M College
Baton Rouge, LA
05.1987

Skills

  • Team building
  • Decision-Making
  • eDiscovery / Non-Structured / Structured Data Processing
  • Agile Application Software Development Lifecycle
  • Scaling and Optimizing Technology Solutions
  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Written Communication
  • Microsoft Net Application Development Team Leader
  • Service Management and Operations Leader
  • Product Owner / Product Champion

Work Availability

monday
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Timeline

Advisory Managing Director

KPMG US
05.2002 - Current

Director

Arthur Andersen
04.1999 - 05.2002

Lead Software Developer

Hennigan, Mercer, & Bennett
03.1995 - 04.1999

Lead Developer

Stone & Webster Engineering / LADWP
07.1987 - 03.1995

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Louisiana State University And A&M College

Musician

Lead Guitar player in Classic Rock Cover band ( http://5feetunderband.com ). Experienced in live performance and recording technology (Avid Pro Tools) and media (Adobe Illustrator, Premiere, and Photoshop), Website creation, Logo creation, Music licensing, Submission to streaming services, Promotion, and Merchandizing.

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