Senior Director, Digital Forensics

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Practice Overview:

At Bright Labs, an Ankura Company, we tailor our services to support our clients’ requirements across a variety of matter sizes and types. Our team of eDiscovery and digital forensic advisors provide consulting expertise and end-to-end project management across the full information lifecycle from identification through production, including managed review for investigations, or litigation. Our consultants work collaboratively with clients to design efficient workflows, proactively identify and mitigate risk, apply quality control checkpoints, solve technological challenges, and provide cost-effective solutions. Our eDiscovery and digital forensics advisory team have significant experience with a broad range of industry-standard technologies and procedures. Also, our professionals have served in some of the largest and most globally recognized eDiscovery investigations. For every unique engagement, we carefully customize our approach to ensure an efficient and well-planned deployment of resources and technology.

Role Overview:

As a Senior Director, you will be work closely with the project team to become familiar with the clients' big-picture objectives and challenges and execute on critical project deliverables to ensure these objectives are met on time and with the highest quality.  With this knowledge you will be responsible for designing and executing efficient, innovative analytical workflow solutions to address their issues. 

Responsibilities:

• Preservation and analysis of electronically stored information (“ESI”) using industry standard tools and practices
• Secure transfer of digital evidence while maintaining chain of custody;
• Maintain integrity of electronically stored information for admission in a court of law;
• Proactive research and recommendations of technology solutions and process improvements that will ensure continued defensibility;
• Day-to-day client engagement activities, including interaction with client personnel, internal Ankura team members, and other stakeholders involved in a given engagement;
• Providing project support to team leads and clients:
• Delivering daily updates of projects engagements to team leads;
• Responding to client requests and setting clear expectations to internal and external stakeholders;
• Conducting quality control checks to ensure accuracy of tasks/deliverables related to searches, review workflow, productions, processing and exports;
• Work with team leads to learn and take ownership of project tasks.
• Coordinating with client contacts to provide project deliverables, progress, timelines and advise on strategy, workflow and best practices;
• Designing and implementing intelligent workflow solutions to quickly identify the key facts, details, and merits of the case.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree. Preferred degree digital forensics, engineering, computer science, information technology, data analytics, or work experience in a related field
• 12+ years of experience working in the Digital Forensics and related space
• Experience with forensic software: EnCase, Access Data Forensic Toolkit, Cellebrite , Linux-based forensic tools, Magnet Axiom, Blackbag or similar forensic toolkit
• Email Systems: Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, eVault, email archive platforms
• Cloud-based storage and chat collaboration platforms such as SLACK, Dropbox, Box, etc.;
• Experience with eDiscovery Review/Processing Platforms is a plus: Relativity, Brainspace, Disco, Nuix, Law, MindsEye

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