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Lighthouse eDiscovery
Felicia Wang is a technical project manager for an Lighthouse, an eDiscovery company. The company is responsible for preparing, organizing and searching all types of electronic evidence for court cases. The evidence types include all electronic communications (email, messengers) and documents and data files, and information stored on laptops, phones and cloud services.
Felicia went to high school in Vancouver, Washington. When Felicia left high school she hadn't planned on heading into a technology job. In school she had always been described as being logical and organized. She was accepted into the University of Washington's Foster School of Business and had already selected a major in accounting.
During her freshman year she took several classes that helped her realize that she didn't like her accounting major as much as she thought she would. There was more writing involved in the classes than she had anticipated. She decided to stick with options within the Foster School of Business and switched her major to a finance and take a minor in information systems. Information systems is a field that focuses on technologies for business. She enjoyed these subjects and the focus of thinking about how businesses needed to think about their budgets, and how financial information is used to make business decisions. Other aspects of business school that she liked was the number of classes and speakers that helped her build basic business skills, like resume creation and interview skills. She says that even if you're not in the business school many of these presentations are still available to you and are worth taking advantage of.
She has a couple of regrets from college. She wish she had studied abroad but by the time she her friends were telling her how good the experience was she didn't have enough room in her schedule to fit it in and make the credits count towards her degree. She also didn't do internships during her breaks as she was sure what she wanted to do. This made it a little harder for her at the end of her degree program to find a position compared to her friends who had completed internships and had received early job offers from the companies they had worked for. She found her position with Lighthouse during her final months at college. She has been extremely happy with her choice.
Felicia didn't know exactly what type of work she wanted to do as she headed towards the end of her degree but she knew she wanted to work for a smaller company rather than a large corporation, as she was looking for a place where she could make her voice heard and make a difference. She loves working at Lighthouse because it’s a moderate size company and if she suggests changes to processes, they can be adopted more rapidly than if she worked in a large company.
During her information system classes at UW she had learned to use a SQL data base, and Lighthouse was looking for people who could understand SQL queries, which she did. She started in the database group which was a good place. Her job involved gathering all the electronic evidence needed for a court case and providing it to the legal team. After working in this group for a while she realized she missed the business side of the work. Her work in the database team was to fulfill the requests from program managers who were working with the client to understand the problem being solved. Felicia missed the how and the why of the work.
She asked her boss about switching to a different team, and as it happened her boss had already realized that Felicia would be good at the business side of the work so it was an easy switch. Felicia's advice to others, is to make sure you let your boss know what you like doing and ask for opportunities to move to something new if that is what you'd like to do.
Today her work involves working with clients and with teams with her company. Their company works mostly with big corporations who have internal legal departments. Her role is to understand what her clients need and then figure out the work flows to get the information and prepare the electronic artifacts for the client to use in court.
Her days are mostly filled with emails, calls, and meetings. She has been able to travel to meet clients in New York, and London. Lighthouse has office in both these locations.
Felicia has been working at Lighthouse for about 5 years. Her advice is to keep learning, and not just learning more about the area you're currently working in. She likes to build up many different skills in new areas as you don't know what the future may hold.
One skill she knows she uses all the time in her work is keeping good relationships. She says that everyone at work need things all the time, so if she has good relationships with different teams and knows what's important to them, and what their priorities are, it makes it easier for her to negotiate what she needs and hopefully keep people inside the company and clients outside the company happy.
Her closing piece of advice to you is to create a Linkedin Profile now if you don't already have one. Even high-school students can find it a useful tool to start to connect with people who meet, and to start posting your work experience and special projects.
Lighthouse eDiscovery
Felicia Wang is a technical project manager for an Lighthouse, an eDiscovery company. The company is responsible for preparing, organizing and searching all types of electronic evidence for court cases. The evidence types include all electronic communications (email, messengers) and documents and data files, and information stored on laptops, phones and cloud services.
Felicia went to high school in Vancouver, Washington. When Felicia left high school she hadn't planned on heading into a technology job. In school she had always been described as being logical and organized. She was accepted into the University of Washington's Foster School of Business and had already selected a major in accounting.
During her freshman year she took several classes that helped her realize that she didn't like her accounting major as much as she thought she would. There was more writing involved in the classes than she had anticipated. She decided to stick with options within the Foster School of Business and switched her major to a finance and take a minor in information systems. Information systems is a field that focuses on technologies for business. She enjoyed these subjects and the focus of thinking about how businesses needed to think about their budgets, and how financial information is used to make business decisions. Other aspects of business school that she liked was the number of classes and speakers that helped her build basic business skills, like resume creation and interview skills. She says that even if you're not in the business school many of these presentations are still available to you and are worth taking advantage of.
She has a couple of regrets from college. She wish she had studied abroad but by the time she her friends were telling her how good the experience was she didn't have enough room in her schedule to fit it in and make the credits count towards her degree. She also didn't do internships during her breaks as she was sure what she wanted to do. This made it a little harder for her at the end of her degree program to find a position compared to her friends who had completed internships and had received early job offers from the companies they had worked for. She found her position with Lighthouse during her final months at college. She has been extremely happy with her choice.
Felicia didn't know exactly what type of work she wanted to do as she headed towards the end of her degree but she knew she wanted to work for a smaller company rather than a large corporation, as she was looking for a place where she could make her voice heard and make a difference. She loves working at Lighthouse because it’s a moderate size company and if she suggests changes to processes, they can be adopted more rapidly than if she worked in a large company.
During her information system classes at UW she had learned to use a SQL data base, and Lighthouse was looking for people who could understand SQL queries, which she did. She started in the database group which was a good place. Her job involved gathering all the electronic evidence needed for a court case and providing it to the legal team. After working in this group for a while she realized she missed the business side of the work. Her work in the database team was to fulfill the requests from program managers who were working with the client to understand the problem being solved. Felicia missed the how and the why of the work.
She asked her boss about switching to a different team, and as it happened her boss had already realized that Felicia would be good at the business side of the work so it was an easy switch. Felicia's advice to others, is to make sure you let your boss know what you like doing and ask for opportunities to move to something new if that is what you'd like to do.
Today her work involves working with clients and with teams with her company. Their company works mostly with big corporations who have internal legal departments. Her role is to understand what her clients need and then figure out the work flows to get the information and prepare the electronic artifacts for the client to use in court.
Her days are mostly filled with emails, calls, and meetings. She has been able to travel to meet clients in New York, and London. Lighthouse has office in both these locations.
Felicia has been working at Lighthouse for about 5 years. Her advice is to keep learning, and not just learning more about the area you're currently working in. She likes to build up many different skills in new areas as you don't know what the future may hold.
One skill she knows she uses all the time in her work is keeping good relationships. She says that everyone at work need things all the time, so if she has good relationships with different teams and knows what's important to them, and what their priorities are, it makes it easier for her to negotiate what she needs and hopefully keep people inside the company and clients outside the company happy.
Her closing piece of advice to you is to create a Linkedin Profile now if you don't already have one. Even high-school students can find it a useful tool to start to connect with people who meet, and to start posting your work experience and special projects.