Certified Professionals

Relativity Certified Administrators

Linda Sumas
Web Hosting Manager

Linda has 5 years of experience in mission critical e-discovery matters containing complex data sets. She has been at iDiscover for 3 years and leads the Relativity® administration team. Linda is one of the first Relativity database administrators to be certified by Relativity, she is also certified in iConnect and Concordance administration.

Erik Griego
Senior Technical Analyst

Erik has been a litigation technology professional for 7 years including experience in IPRO, Doculex, Relativity, iConect, Discover-e, Concordance and Invariant. Erik has a broad background in litigation support enabling him to bring unique problem solving expertise and experience to complex e-discovery matters.

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Relativity Certified Sales Professionals

Deena Smith, Esq.
Director of Professional Services

Deena brings her extensive background in both managed review and litigation to her role as Director of Professional Services. Having formerly practiced at one of the country's top law firms, Deena understands the important role E-discovery plays in litigation; from early data analysis through review and production. Deena is uniquely positioned with both an attorney and ESI consultant's point of view to provide strategic and cost-effective solutions tailored to each client's needs.

Prior to joining iDiscover Deena specialized in large-scale document reviews for Fortune 500 companies. She previously practiced employment law at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Deena is licensed to practice law in California. She earned her JD from Santa Clara University and is a Relativity Certified Sales Professional. 

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EnCase® Certified Examiners

Chris Wiley
National IT Director

Chris Wiley has devoted most of his 25+ year IT/security career to the technological advancement of secure IT and management solutions. His accomplishments are widely recognized by IT professionals and top consultants throughout the country. Chris was instrumental in designing and implementing the core backbone structure for the Enron Web Repository. This repository handled thousands of online databases containing over 24 million documents. This allowed cross collaboration within the Enron Joint Defense Fund, a group consisting of multiple law firms. Chris has managed the IT mergers and integration of 12 corporations. He has achieved a 16-year record of impregnability to multiple viruses, hackers and worms. He directly managed network/internet security for clients including IBM, Toshiba, Sony, Xerox, Acer and Direct Alliance Corp, successfully deterring 2+ million external attacks per month per company. In addition, Chris served as sole contractor responsible for the redesign of the DOD Commissary Agency’s global financial transactions security network.

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