DONNA L. KENNEY
Glen Burnie
Summary
Comprehensive project management experience in federal government and legal environments with the proven ability to lead technical, case, and client support initiatives, streamline processes to achieve efficiencies, and manage support teams to attain peak performance levels.
Highly skilled in managing attorneys, paralegals, and staff to meet critical deadlines, develop and produce key presentations and documentation, and effectively organize workflows.
Possess a working knowledge of the litigation and eDiscovery processes with a strong understanding of the use of technology to support litigation efforts, with special emphasis on presentation/document production and document management.
Well-versed in managing multiple project initiatives simultaneously, prioritizing implementation phases, analyzing critical support requirements, identifying deficiencies and potential opportunities, and developing innovative solutions for improving the support function's reliability and productivity across multiple locations.
Proven ability to independently diagnose and correct system and software issues, as well as interface with IT staff and vendors; extensive understanding of computer hardware and software, including installation, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and support.
Client Manager dedicated to assisting account executives and account teams by performing administrative and client support duties associated with maintaining client accounts. Focused on ensuring excellent service standards and maintaining high customer satisfaction. Experience providing product and services information and resolving any emerging problems clients might face with accuracy and efficiency.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Practice Group Administrator
Brown Rudnick
Washington
07.2023 - Current
- Responsible for managing, supervising, and coordinating white-collar group and staff to provide quality, cost-effective care to clients while meeting goals and objectives.
- Reviews and processes invoices, monitors practice group's budgets, and all litigation resources. Forecasts practice group's expenses, reconcile practice group's AMEX accounts, and identifies cost-saving measures.
- Assists practice group with the creation of eDiscovery specifications and QC of production requests.
Project Manager
Deloitte
Rosslyn
12.2021 - 07.2023
- Provides eDiscovery litigation support assistance to the United States Attorney's Offices for the Department of Justice.
- Organizes and maintains Electronically Stored Information (ESI) within the Relativity eDiscovery platform.
- Responsible for loading new data and creating document productions in Relativity.
- Works with case managers on developing workflows and search strategies. Creates fields, choices, layouts, imaging, production and OCR sets. Runs structured analytics on workspaces.
- Retires cases and ensures proper disposition of data.
Project Manager
PAE
Falls Church
05.2020 - 11.2021
- Provided eDiscovery litigation support assistance to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, Eastern District of New York, Western District of New York and the Southern District of New York.
- Organized and maintained Electronically Stored Information (ESI) within the Relativity eDiscovery platform.
- Responsible for loading new data and creation of document productions in Relativity.
- Oversees and manages an average of 80 cases per month in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.
- Communicates client requirements and work instructions to PAE's Operations Team.
- Submits project specifications into the Jira workflow system, including but not limited to, hard drive shipments, new data uploads, production exports, and new user accounts.
- Tracks progress of work requests to ensure project deadlines are met. Performs quality checks and data analysis on all client deliverables. Manages user access requirements and database permissions.
- Works with case managers on developing workflows and search strategies. Creates fields, choices, layouts, imaging, production and OCR sets. Runs structured analytics on workspaces.
- Retires cases and ensures proper disposition of data.
Director of eDiscovery/Government Contracting
Analytic Focus, LLC
Washington
01.2012 - 05.2020
- Worked with clients on assessing eDiscovery needs and developing strategies.
- Led projects through the electronic discovery lifecycle.
- Worked with case managers on all aspects of the electronic discovery process, including collection, processing, analysis, review, and production of electronically stored information.
- Performed analytics on large datasets to evaluate for relevancy and validity.
- Developed presentations and reports to facilitate project evaluation and process.
- Prepared budgets and project plans, outlining scope, project milestones, and deadlines.
- Used analytical tools to gain insight into data to detect patterns and relationships.
- Maintained familiarity with various eDiscovery platforms and provided support to case teams.
- Developed search techniques, defining syntax and parameters.
- Assisted satellite offices involved in litigation with database searches in client eDiscovery platforms (e.g., Relativity, DocuMatrix, Axcelerate, Orcatec, etc.).
- Served as SME for writing portions of proposal responses, attended pre-proposal meetings, and conducted post-award debriefings.
- Implemented comprehensive tracking processes to monitor project performance.
- Maintained project budgets and timelines to keep teams on-task and achieve schedule targets.
- Analyzed projects to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment, software, and staff.
- Spearheaded new eDiscovery business initiatives.
Education
M.S. - Data Analytics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD04-2026
B.S. - Information Management Systems
University of Maryland
College Park, MDSkills
- Windows
- Unix
- Linux
- Java
- C
- HTML
- XML
- SQL
- SDLC
- EDRM
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- Outlook
- MS Project
- CaseMap
- IManage
- DocsOpen
- DocXTools
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Premiere
- Publisher
- Visio
- Relativity
- ViewPoint
- DocuMatrix
- Axcelerate
- Orcatec
- Law
- Venio
Languages
- Java
- C++
- HTML
- XML
- SQL
Timeline
Practice Group Administrator
Brown Rudnick
07.2023 - Current
Project Manager
Deloitte
12.2021 - 07.2023
Project Manager
PAE
05.2020 - 11.2021
Director of eDiscovery/Government Contracting
Analytic Focus, LLC
01.2012 - 05.2020
M.S. - Data Analytics
University of Maryland
B.S. - Information Management Systems
University of Maryland