Javier Padilla
E-discovery Case Manager
Summary
10+ years in the eDiscovery industry with experience in resource balancing, process management, and new process implementation based on changing business landscape and participating in cross-departmental process discussions to effectively and efficiently implement the changes. Never shies away from assignments and always goes beyond requirements to make lasting difference. Offers excellent multitasking and problem-solving abilities.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Ediscovery Case Manager
Brewer Attorneys And Associate
New York, NY
10.2021 - Current
- Offered tech support to case managers and attorneys.
- Uploaded data into Recommind for review and pre-processing.
- Trained new hire attorneys and staff in relevant software including Recommind and Relativity.
- Created searches with attorneys specifications in review database.
- Created, exports for productions, including imports for 3rd party productions.
- Created or added projects, users and fields for reviewers, searches and indexes.
- Assisted attorneys and support staff in navigating cases in review database, legal services and public benefits to gain access to valuable resources.
- Maintained litigation database and document organization for all cases.
Senior Practice Support Specialist
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
New York, NY
03.2019 - Current
- Worked on various projects consecutively by executing productions in Relativity and reporting needed information within assigned deadlines
- Utilize a range of sources, systems, and tools to ingest, process, search, recover, sort, and organize large amounts of electronic information in all phases of an electronic review or litigation matter in Relativity
- Set up new Relativity Workspaces, Users, Groups, and Review Panes in preparation for Attorneys reviews
- Assist attorneys with any inquiries regarding Relativity searches, productions
- Worked on non-standard Productions request using Adobe and Nuance
- Convert 3rd party production to the firm's standards and load to Relativity Workspace, ensuring the accuracy of data loading by doing quality control.
Senior eDiscovery Analyst
D4 Discovery LLC
New York, NY
07.2016 - 02.2019
- In charge of evaluating, establishing workflow, and rolling out relativity processing to my team
- Establish workflow for job intake and distribution using web-based tracking software IS-A-TASK
- Managed work proactively loads and PM expectation keeping them updated and relaying any issues that resulted and therefore resolving them quickly
- Perform ESI Data analysis and generate reports
- Follow through on the progress of team tasks
- Led Morning status calls and planned project prioritization for the day
- Handling of special/non-standard project requests
- Handle productions using Viewpoint and Relativity
- Provide technical expertise on ESI data formats and processing
- Troubleshoot issues, prepare summaries, document processes, and workflows, propose solutions, and collaborate and communicate with internal team members
- Perform a full range of eDiscovery processing tasks- Media intake, data ingestion, processing, culling, exporting, Production from Viewpoint, and custom data manipulation
- Performed Import to Relativity from Viewpoint
Acting Tech Lead / eDiscovery Analyst III
RVM Enterprises Inc
New York, NY
08.2011 - 07.2016
- Follow through on the progress of team tasks – escalation to Lead Quality Assurance
- Morning SCRUM and project prioritization for the Morning Shift
- Handling of special/non-standard project requests
- Creating Documentation
- Handles escalated / priority client projects - RUSH jobs and Review of system errors and data discrepancies before escalation to Development
- Troubleshoot issues, prepare summaries, document processes, and workflows, propose solutions, and collaborate and communicate with internal team members
- Work proactively with PM Leads to prioritize work in queue daily
- Approves progressive reports, activity logs, and kws syntax logic
- Extraction and Extraction QC using RVM's proprietary tool and E-capture
- Assist Image QC department and troubleshooting data that fail to process using SQL
- Perform export according to the given instruction using EES
- Image File Manipulation using IPRO tool (Endorsement, OCR, Conversion)
- Data Processing, Culling (De-NIST, De-duplication, Date Filter, Keyword Search), and exporting to Relativity
- Perform Tiffing (Imaging) and image conversion
- Coordinate with the project team to respond to any project related queries and work with others to provide solutions
- Understand culling trajectory
- Understand GDD concept
- Firm understanding of exporting concepts (table relationships, JO instructions relationships, BATES)
- Understand field mapping concepts and relationships to load files
- Firm grasp of metadata fields
- Upload, export, create workspaces, and save searches from Relativity.
Lead Document Service Representative
Merrill Legal Solutions, LDSR
Newark, NJ
04.2007 - 04.2011
- Support sales reps in opening new accounts and upgrading existing service
- Quickly and effectively solve customer challenges
- Function as imaging and reproduction operator
- Oversee production floor and supervise operators within the department
- Examine media for content to ensure project deadlines and constant communication with the production manager and sales representatives to meet those time constraints
- Responsible for loading and processing native (PST, NSF, loose, and compressed files) data using LAW PreDiscovery
- Set up data intake, de-duplication options using section or project-wide, indexing and searching, print formatting for native files, run OCR on files that did not extract text, create productions, and load file deliverables different review platforms
- Quality control on all projects before deliverable by checking against project specifications and randomly checking images for quality.
Education
Associate Degree - Science: Web Administration
Gibbs College
10.2003 - 07.2005
Skills
Effective management, technical, and supervisory skillsRecognized for dedication, attention to detail, professionalism, and follow-up
Key member in training department in Recommind eCapture and Relativity
Supervisory experience with developed leadership skills, foster teamwork, motivates coach and develops staffOversee multiple tasks simultaneously with the knowledge to prioritize appropriatelyCollaborated on the management of daily operations within the organizationExcellent analytical and troubleshooting skillsStrong verbal and written communication skills to effectively communicate with internal staff and senior managementOffice 365 (with an emphasis in MS Access & Excel) Adobe, IPRO, Irfanview, Summation, True Crypt, Robocopy, SQL, Equivio, Relativity, ViewPoint and Recommind
Certification
E-capture Administrator
Timeline
Axcelerate Data Processing Certification
07-2022
Axcelerate R&A Case Manager Certification
05-2022
Ediscovery Case Manager
Brewer Attorneys And Associate
10.2021 - Current
Senior Practice Support Specialist
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
03.2019 - Current
Relativity One Certification
10-2018
Senior eDiscovery Analyst
D4 Discovery LLC
07.2016 - 02.2019
E-capture Administrator
01-2016
Acting Tech Lead / eDiscovery Analyst III
RVM Enterprises Inc
08.2011 - 07.2016
Lead Document Service Representative
Merrill Legal Solutions, LDSR
04.2007 - 04.2011
Associate Degree - Science: Web Administration
Gibbs College
10.2003 - 07.2005