Hi, I’m
Deepak Shukla
Project Manager
New Delhi,DL
Summary
Analytical E-Discovery professional with ~11 years of industry experience. Leadership-anchor ideas and involve all participants to achieve exceptional results. Excellent consultative, problem solving, research and analytical skills, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Stupendous communication, presentation and mentoring skills with distinguished abilities in developing procedures and service standards for business excellence. Multifaceted Professional with Exceptional negotiation & Relationship management skills. An organized, detail-oriented and conscientious self-starter, able to strategize and prioritize effectively to accomplish multiple tasks and stay calm under pressure. High energy confident professional with an infectious enthusiasm for technology and able to prioritize and delegate tasks effectively to ensure timely project completion within a team environment. An Experienced Professional able to explain information clearly and inspire team members to achieve their potential while working towards common goals.
Overview
2025
years of professional experience
2
Languages
10
Certificates
Work History
CS DISCO
Project Manager
04.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Providing daily support to clients with their various requests for litigation.
- Mentored junior team members, sharing knowledge and expertise to support their career development.
- Delivered exceptional results by consistently monitoring progress against established KPIs and adjusting tactics as needed for optimal outcomes.
- Developed comprehensive project plans, identifying key milestones, and resources needed for successful execution.
- Championed process improvement initiatives, driving increased productivity and cost savings across organization.
- Provided expert guidance during critical decision-making moments, ensuring alignment between strategic objectives.
- Facilitated clear communication among team members, stakeholders, and clients throughout all project phases.
- Established strong relationships with clients, fostering trust and promoting long-term partnerships.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Built relationships with customers and community to establish long-term business growth.
- Collaborated with upper management to implement continuous improvements and exceed team goals.
Unitedlex
Assistant Manager - Project Management
1 2020 - 03.2023
Job overview
- Leading a team of 15 members to provide project management support to clients across globe
- Providing Support to clients, counsels and project managers for all EDRM stages
- Getting the data downloaded, staged and backed up in coordination with data services team before processing
- Coordinating with processing team to get the data processed on NUIX/LAW
- Getting the data loaded into relativity
- Perform QC of loaded data
- Run post load scripts on data, indexing
- Prepare, format, run STRs on loaded data
- Create Highlighting set as requested
- Coordinate with counsel and review team to provide them admin level support
- Creating groups and providing access to users
- Run structured analysis like Email Threading, Name normalization, Textual near duplication, repeated content identification and language identification
- Perform clusterization, running CAL, building analytics index both conceptual and classification as a part of data analytics
- Managing multiple relativity instances for organization
- Preparing training modules for new joiners
- Providing training, designing goals, accessing performance of team
- Managing work between shifts
- Preparing attendance roster
- Delivering quality product to clients and counsels
- Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
- Improved customer satisfaction by addressing and resolving complaints promptly.
Conduent Business Services
Specialist
7 2018 - 1 2020
Job overview
- Working in a team of 12 FTE's to provide support and maintenance for CLCS in production environment
- Responsibilities included Business and operational support of internally developed and 3rd party applications on a distributed Linux/windows environment, stability monitoring and alert notification of application events, and solution to business production environments
- Troubleshooting client issues by analysing production data and replicating the scenario on staging environment to further investigate
- Working with Clients management teams to implement new client requirements
- Liaising with Business Stakeholders to capture Business requirements
- Identify and implement performance improvements of batch processes
- Execute performance tuned SQL queries on the database to extract business critical data
- Using scripts to verify traps, system monitoring, etc
- Pro-active awareness and response to all incidents with continuous improvement of processes
- Monitor batch jobs running on server
- Solve Problems related to failing of jobs, re-running of jobs
- Monitoring and accept JIRA issues
- Analyse and resolve the live incidents as per agreed SLA
- If necessary, escalate to the different dealer group and development team
- Identify areas of improvement and putting it across to the development team & business stakeholders
- Resolve client queries and issues
- Attend weekly delivery calls with CM Team, Scrum meeting & Interface team
KPMG
Consultant
12.2017 - 07.2018
Job overview
- Responsible for forensic acquisition and collection of data using various forensics tools.
- Responsible for forensic acquisition and collection of data using various forensics tools such as Encase, FTK Imager, F.Tech boot disk, Cellebrite UFED, Oxygen Mobile Forensics, and Magneto IEF.
- Verification of forensic image acquired using Encase and FTK Imager.
- Recovery of deleted data, non-deleted data, overwritten files, anti-forensic files, and mobile phone backups using Encase.
- Forensic acquisition of mobile data using Oxygen Forensic and Cellebrite UFED, along with the processing and recovery of mobile data using Oxygen Forensic Analyst and UFED Physical Analyzer.
- Once the forensic images are created, a backup copy and working copy are created, along with drive encryption using TrueCrypt or BitLocker encryption.
- Use of Magnet Axiom IEF and IEF for link analysis, cloud data, phone backup data, browser history, pornographic URL's searches, chat analysis etc
- Exporting relevant, deleted, and non-deleted data through Encase for performing indexing on NUIX to make data searchable.
- Once data is processed over NUIX, relevant deduplication is performed as per the client's requirement.
- Performing simple and complex searches over processed data using the keywords provided by the investigation team.
- Once the investigation team reviews and confirms the hit count of searches, these hit counts are exported/produced as per the client's requirements.
- PST production, Legal export on concordance, Email view export, metadata export, overlay export, native export, image export, and various other forms of export and production are performed.
- Once concordance export is complete, data is loaded on Relativity using RDC to be reviewed by the investigation team.
- Performing admin-level activity on Relativity, such as creating workspaces, clients, matters, users, providing access and rights to users as per their approved reviewer level, building layouts, creating fields, persistence highlighting, family propagation, and various other activities.
- Performing complex searches, saved searches, and dt searches on Relativity.
- Creating production sets on relativity, along with binding documents to be produced in native, slip-sheet for documents to be produced in native, privilege documents, stubs, document could not be processed.
- Stamping documents with various confidentiality stamps, bates numbers, or other custom stampings.
- Delivering high-end product to client.
Xerox Business Services
Sr. Analyst Client Services
02.2016 - 12.2017
Job overview
- Analyzing and Production of data received from various clients and ensuring that they are loaded on server as requested by client with given set of special instructions
- Supervising end-to-end eDiscovery processes for complex litigation and regulatory matters
- Performing special processing, productions and other defects using Bugzilla,jira as bug tracking tool
- Maintains Production information at back end using Sql and unix
- Maintains Production information at back end using Sql, unix, excel and Prepared and maintained custom reports
- Responsible for supporting the daily operation of litigation support databases
- Developed the new requirement for the change in the billing module of the loans
- Production Support for the Live Project
- Provide technical support to client in customizing the application to their needs
- Understanding new business requirements and documenting them
- Rich Experience in providing post-implementation technical support to the client
- Highly skilled in writing efficient code, debugging, manual-testing
- Organized training sessions for the members and new joiners
- Extensive knowledge of FTK Imager, Encase, LAW, Omnix, NUIX, MS SQL and MS Excel
- Handling different queries from different law firm who are engaged in a particular matter and working for the client
- Extensive use of JIRA for project tracking purpose
- Using Bugzilla as bug tracking tool for all the special processing, productions and other defects that occur in course of completing the request from the client
- Delivering high quality end product to client
Harman International
Consultant
10.2015 - 01.2016
Job overview
- Processing, Extracting and loading the data using the tool NUIX,LAW, Reativity and also using in house tool TRUE_ED
- Depending upon the size of the data received, loading/Ingesting the data using the tool NUIX, also using in house tool TRUE_ED
- Harman has got some very peculiar type of Processing from Language Vector Analysis to MP3 Processing
- Also, we do the Redactions of the MP3 records along with the Tiffing of the Sine Waves generated while playing a MP3 File
- Also working on the Predictive Analysis of the data is done
- Here, after the processing of the Records, Records with different Languages is separated and handed over to the Review Team
- Extensive use of MS SQL Server to fetch the intensive details of the data and also used for culling down the irrelevant data
- Further, before catalog/extracting the data, we use in house tool GRPM to eliminate the non-responsive data
- De-Duplication:- Both MD5 and SHA1, SHA2 and SHA256 key is generated by the in house tool
- But we use MD5 as per the industry standards
- Making HTML\Plain text for all the non-duplicate records
- This entire loading process goes through 2 stages of QC before Publishing
- Publishing and Hosting the data sets into GRPM (in House Review, Publishing and Hosting Tool)
- Updating the Information System (Used for Billing the Client) with all the information about each Dataset
- Generate the related reports and maintaining the dashboard
- Production of the Records is done under tight Deadlines
- In house Tools like Read Iris, 3rd Party Tool Acrobat Reader is use for OCR of the Redacted Records and annotation is also done by these Tools
- In Production PMs have certain demands which are much customized and we use robust in house tool which meets these demands, like Applying the Placeholder text for Different type of records depending upon whether they are to Produced natively/could not be printed/Previously Produced
- Applying Redaction depending upon the different security groups specified by the PMs
- Sort Order, Bates Number are done using SQL Server
- Also, the Bates number for the records in a set can be different depending upon whether the Records are previously produced ones or are to produce for the First time
- Also, sometimes we simply produce it by using DocIds
- The most crucial part is the Sort Order of the Records
- It can be varied from DocId, Custodian, Custodian Last_First, and Bates Number
- Delivering the project to the PM's
United Lex
Analyst
02.2014 - 09.2015
Job overview
- Identification and forensic acquisition of the pertinent set of electronic data
- Reducing the size of the dataset, while ensuring that all relevant and responsive data is included
- Identification of the individual files which comprise the dataset, each of which receives a MD5 hash tag identifier
- Ingesting the data into LAW
- Fetching the relevant data from SQL server
- Tiff/OCR the documents
- Endorsing the documents
- Generating Primary key's for the relevant set of data
- Exporting the natives, images and maintaining the database
- Publishing data work packages using Questio
- Generating Reports related to the process
- Maintaining the Dashboard
- Manually testing the processing and pre-processing software
- Familiar with testing environment, software development & testing life cycle
- Experience in test planning and authoring test documents
- Expertise in Defect tracking, reporting tools
- Defining test cases, test execution, database queries
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
Education
SR College of LAW , Ghaziabad, India
LLB from Legal Studies
04.2001
Guru Gobind Sing Indraprastha University , Delhi, India
B. Tech from Computer Science
04.2001
Skills
Client Services
Certification
DISCO Project Management Certification
Timeline
DISCO Project Management Certification
04-2024
DISCO Sales Professional Certification
04-2024
DISCO Data Management Certification
04-2024
DISCO Review Management Certification
04-2024
DISCO Search & Review Certification
04-2024
Project Manager
CS DISCO
04.2023 - Current
Relativity One Certified Pro
09-2021
Brainspace Certified Administrator
04-2020
Brainspace Certified Analyst
04-2020
Brainspace Certified Specialist
04-2020
Consultant
KPMG
12.2017 - 07.2018
Sr. Analyst Client Services
Xerox Business Services
02.2016 - 12.2017
Consultant
Harman International
10.2015 - 01.2016
Analyst
United Lex
02.2014 - 09.2015
Sales Force Developer and Force.cm
04-2010
SR College of LAW
LLB from Legal Studies
04.2001
Guru Gobind Sing Indraprastha University
B. Tech from Computer Science
04.2001
Assistant Manager - Project Management
Unitedlex
1 2020 - 03.2023
Specialist
Conduent Business Services
7 2018 - 1 2020
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