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ANAGHA PATANKAR RAY

Burnaby,BC

Summary

An eDiscovery Analyst with expertise in document review and key document identification to support large scale complex litigations. Scope, design, and execute information-retrieval services for law firms and corporate clients, using proprietary search and analytics tools. In contexts of litigation, internal investigations, and information governance, support the team’s goals by leading teams in the use of complex methodologies, protocols, and tools for identifying key or responsive documents.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Consultant

Lighthouse EDiscovery (acquired H5 Tech In 2021)
07.2013 - 04.2024

Consultation & Solutions Design

  • Primary responsibility for scoping client needs and designing a service-specific solution, workflow, and deliverables on large scale eDiscovery projects.

Project Management

  • Responsible for the day-to-day execution of project work and ensuring that deliverables meet the project's quality standards and delivery deadlines.

Technical & Process Expertise

  • Mastery of the in-house proprietary search and analytics tools functionality
  • Knowledge of other eDiscovery software's like Relativity and Concordance
  • Analyze email chains, metadata, subject matter, and sentiment to identify crucial themes, identify key players and potential witnesses, establish timelines, and understand who communicated what to whom and when—as a part of early case assessment during litigation
  • Search for key/hot documents amongst huge volumes of electronically stored information, in order to support testing case theories, creating fact chronologies, identifying new witnesses, and uncovering previously unknown facts as a part of case preparation during litigation
  • Review and analyze large volumes of data as a part of technology assisted review for document production during the eDiscovery phase of litigation

Project Communications & Information Management

  • Make sure the team members have the information and resources they need to do their jobs.

Leadership & Mentorship

  • Support and serve the project team as coordinator, coach, communications chief, and leader.



Analyst - Senior Manager

H5 Asia Pacific Pvt. Ltd
04.2007 - 06.2013

Analyst

  • Work with interdisciplinary teams and play active roles in all aspects of large-scale eDiscovery projects from scoping requirements to delivering results.
  • Document review and coding, information analysis/synthesis, subject matter research/modeling, and knowledge transfer.
  • Lead team in the capacity of a Team Lead and a Project Lead during the development of the eDiscovery projects.

Manager/Sr. Manager

  • Managing workflow, reporting progress, risk identification and mitigation on large scale eDiscovery projects and being a point of contact between the team in Asia Pacific and the project team in North America.
  • Identifying project specific training requirements and coordinating the training sessions with the trainer’s.
  • Coordinating lessons learned sessions after every project in order to work towards better integration of team in Asia Pacific with the team in North America.
  • Conducting feedback sessions with the document review analysts on a project team.
  • Leadership development of a select set of up & coming leads &/or junior managers.
  • Conducted performance evaluations, compensations and hiring to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.

Education

Master of Arts - Clinical Psychology

University Department of Applied Psychology
Mumbai, India
05.2002

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

University of Mumbai
Mumbai, India
06.2000

Skills

  • Strong organizational and documentation skills with the ability to initiate, manage, and report task independently, as identified
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively and clearly to both technical and non-technical staff
  • Highly detailed oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Ability to track metrics and report up to management
  • Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
  • Ability to work well in a small team with shared responsibilities
  • Proficiency in MS Office suite
  • Working knowledge of industry standard eDiscovery tools and systems like Relativity and Concordance
  • Knowledge of data collection, data storage, and chain of custody best practices

Languages

English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Marathi
Full Professional

Timeline

Consultant

Lighthouse EDiscovery (acquired H5 Tech In 2021)
07.2013 - 04.2024

Analyst - Senior Manager

H5 Asia Pacific Pvt. Ltd
04.2007 - 06.2013

Master of Arts - Clinical Psychology

University Department of Applied Psychology

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

University of Mumbai
ANAGHA PATANKAR RAY