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New York Bar (2003) |New York Real Estate Brokers License (2008) |FINRA Series 63 B/D
Regulation (2009)
Managing Director Business Development, Interfor Inc, New York, NY October 2010 to present
Goals & Objectives:
• Promote expand & develop the business/product line of a fully licensed & regulated international
investigation & intelligence group
• Conduct enhanced Due Diligence (DD) & Know Your Client (KYC) investigations that are back
of office/wire house staff, trading & sales desk personnel and counter-party selection/vetting
oriented
• Provide asset location & transactional verification services for the derivatives & ISDA risk
management professional
• Develop litigation/corporate/ financial intelligence that is both real world & real time
Consultant & External Project Manager Electronic Evidence Discovery July 2008-Present
Goals & Objectives
• Assess & assure universal project consistency (EED platform: Concordance/Relativity, review
staff, facility adequacy, outside vendor contractual arrangements) with client expectations,
requirements & resources
Translate/negotiate all outside-counsel requests for EED into feasible, reasonable and
manageable evidentiary database queries based upon the in situ observations of the review
team, document with substantive & technical specificity all EED objections/reservations in a
clear concise memorandum to opposing counsel, maintain/update all discovery correspondence,
judicial decisions with required database chain of evidence documentation in hard copy & PDF
format
• Assume immediate Six Sigma responsibility for project administration, logistics, achievement
of date/time milestones and deadlines (internal & external), overall costs (especially overruns),
productivity benchmarks or anomalies or sudden changes in the electronic document database &
staff morale, prepare daily/weekly project situation reports (SITREPS) to suit client needs
• Act as client conduit to all outside vendors (personnel, material or electronic document services)
maintain and manage a positive dialog with vendors while fairly representing client’s best
interests in the timely execution of contracts, under the negotiated terms, represented by fair &
accurate invoices, consult vendors as “educators in advance” to possible project problems or
solutions
• Develop case specific search terms & coding techniques of exceptional discrimination to yield
high-value exculpatory or inculpatory information of litigative or regulatory interest and “batch”
eliminate erroneous “junk” documents or irrelevant digital artifacts
• Proactively manage review onboarding by creating simple, concise coding protocols, protocol
annotation logs & frequent dissemination of case/coding updates in “review group” emails
• Use review platform embedded productivity & quality control (QC) metrics to aggressively
identify, retain & encourage valuable human capital, those who require remedial
training/supervision to achieve project standards & individuals with skill sets incompatible with
the requirements of the project
• Instruct & train assigned personnel in efficient, effective techniques to manipulate the specific
database and associated review platform that optimize software architecture to achieve client
regulatory or litigation objectives/requirements
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Real Estate Practice & Underwriting Group Securities Litigation & Securitization Analyst:
Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP, New York, NY March 2003-June 2008
Conduct ISDA contract verification/analysis, & derivatives documentation
review/EED/trial Support on behalf of global investment bank subject to constant state, federal &
international litigation/regulation
Federal Public Defenders Office New Orleans, Louisiana (Law Clerk) January 1995– December 1995
• Conduct case research, audio & video evidentiary review & trial transcript analysis
• Memoranda preparation for money laundering conspiracy trial
• Writing appellate briefs & habeas corpus writs
Associate, American Bar Association, Central and Eastern European Law Initiative (CEELI),
Moscow, Russian Federation May 1994 - September 1994
• Conduct survey of intellectual property (IP) law legislation and anti-piracy initiatives in the
Russian Federation
• Regulation & monitoring of Informal Value Transfer Systems (IVTS) of former USSR Republics
• Monitor the Development of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) White Collar Crime Legislation
MAJOR PROJECTS:
• M&A Assessment/Analysis: due diligence and reputational & regulatory audit of potential
acquisition of a viaticals company by a major investment bank during a period of heightened
industry scrutiny by New York State AG Office
• Bankruptcy: Clawback issue involving a multibillion dollar Ponzi Scheme allegations of
banking fraud and money laundering requiring look back reviews of international bank wire
transfers over a 10 year time span (Ringtail/Relativity)
• FINRA/ Broker Dealer Compliance & Regulation: investigative review of charges of brokerage
misconduct, to include misrepresentation of account status, churning, caps, violation of know
your client rule, comingling, market timing and late trading in investment bank sell side
operations, conducted exhaustive analysis and cross referenced over 600 Dealer/Rep “Dummy”
codes that were being misused by brokerage member (Concordance)
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance: on behalf of internet sector mutual fund, conduct
“prospectus post mortem” analysis-investigative fact checking & review allegations of market
timing and late trading by a major investment bank (Concordance)
• Commodities Trading Fraud: Due Diligence review involving energy futures, options and complex
derivatives trading strategies analysis of trader compliance documentation & correspondence with
regulatory agencies & SROs (CBOT/ CMEX) (NICE Audio Review)
• Breach of Investment Advisor Fiduciary Duty & ISDA Compliance: Due Diligence review in the
marketing, sales, trading & Documentation of interest rate swaps for municipalities and foreign
exchange based derivatives by a major investment bank (Stratify)
• Antitrust Application of Waiver: contemplated M&A action of several Transfer Agent and wire house
facilities by a top tier investment bank, involving extensive review of SEC Filings: TA-1 & TA-2’s to
determine relative market share (Bloomberg & EDGAR)
• Securities 10-b Action: involving major investment funds, investment banks, subprime mortgage
company & rating agencies involving, complex analysis of GAAP accounting rules, securitization
instruments & artifacts (loan tapes) & issues or ultimate culpability & proximate causation
• Subprime litigation: involving the due diligence review of documentation concerning the
securitization, tranching, rating & trading of mortgage backed securities & related derivatives for a
major investment bank, mortgage companies and related rating agencies (Relativity)
• Securities Litigation: supervise, train, & provide QC support for 80 attorneys & 30 paralegals on
a 9 month project in complex, multidistrict, class action, securities litigation representing a major
Internet media company, handled logistical, administrative as well as substantive review and
analysis (Concordance)
• Hedge Fund Compliance: supervise, train and provide QC for 25 attorneys for a 3 month project
addressing a complex multi-jurisdictional dispute involving substantive issues of The Bank
Secrecy Act (BSA) and the Patriot Act between a major international hedge fund and federal
regulators in commercial bank de-mutualization litigation (Relativity)
• Complex, Multidistrict, Class Action, Securities Litigation: representing a major internet media
company, supervised 80 Attorneys for over 9 months handling logistical, administrative as well as
substantive review and analysis. Assisted in the preparation of witness binders, evidentiary & privilege
spreadsheets, maintained & updated electronic document and privilege log with over 10,000 entries
Intellectual Property/Patent/Pharmaceutical