July 2007
Your eDiscovery Needs are Constantly Evolving
EED's Operations Team is Always One Step Ahead
According to a recent survey by IDC1, the amount of digital information created, captured, and replicated in 2006 totaled 161 exabytes or 161 Billion gigabytes. The previous estimate came from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, who totaled the globe's information production at five exabytes in 20032. The IDC survey predicts that by 2010, while nearly 70% of the digital universe will be created by individuals, organizations (businesses of all sizes, agencies, governments, associations, etc.) will be responsible for the security, privacy, reliability, and compliance of at least 85% of that same digital universe.
EED's Operations Team understands the impact of this ever-growing universe of data on your litigation.
In 2006:
- EED's Processing Team managed 1.24B documents in preparation for loading into Discovery Partner® (DP).
- EED's Analyst Team reduced client's data by an average of 48% prior to review through de-duplication. EED's search and selection tools and advanced reduction strategies enabled a further reduction of clients' data by an additional 40% prior to review, saving approximately 57 years of attorney review time (assuming 12 hr. days/7 days a week).
- EED's Production Team exported approximately 100 Million TIFF images and 5 Million items in native format. If printed, these would fill nearly 11,000 standard 4-drawer filing cabinets.
- EED's Technology Team increased online storage to 350TB. That's enough online storage to hold the estimated print content of the Library of Congress more than 17 times.
For the past 20 years, EED has remained one step ahead of our clients' and the market's constantly evolving eDiscovery needs. From collection to review, our Operations Team continuously adapts our processes and technology to meet your needs before you even anticipate them.
Meet the Operations Team
(from left to right)
Patrick Par - Director of Operations
As Director of Operations, Mr. Par oversees EED's processing and production units, focusing on operational efficiency to enhance throughput and ensure the highest level of quality. In this role, Mr. Par is responsible for the overall management of EED's operations centers in Kirkland, WA, New York, NY and Washington D.C.
Brian Lennstrom - Director of Business Process Engineering
As Director of Business Process Engineering, Mr. Lennstrom heads the group responsible for EED's operational tools and processes, including business process management, process automation and re-engineering, coordination with software engineering, configuration management, release management, training and metrics.
Tim Ryan - Vice President of Operations
Tim Ryan leads EED's Operations Team. Drawing on his extensive experience in policy development and standardized process management techniques, Mr. Ryan builds and implements EED's overall processes and procedures to ensure that client data is handled quickly, efficiently and confidentially.
Chris Mashburn - Director of Technical Consulting
As Director of Technical Consulting, Mr. Mashburn provides clients with technical expertise on the overall e-discovery process including scope definition, forensic collection/preservation, best practices, processing, review and production operations. In this role, Mr. Mashburn is responsible for managing client data solutions that require any aspect of remote operations including worldwide collections, remote data hosting and operations (EED MobilizedTM), and tape remediation.
Brandon Leatha - Director of Data Analysis
As Director of Data Analysis, Mr. Leatha leads a team of analysts to provide industry leading eDiscovery services including searching, culling, data analytics and reporting.
Zach Peerand - Manager of Application Hosting
As Manager of Application Hosting, Mr. Peerand oversees the hardware infrastructure and security aspects of hosting our 24x7 EED suite of applications for both internal and external clients in EED's three operational centers.
For more information visit www.eedinc.com
1 IDC, "The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010," 2007. Accessed March 27 2007 Retrieved from http://www.emc.com/about/destination/digital_universe/