Ricardo Brums is a digital forensics and eDiscovery professional with twelve years of consulting and in-house experience, based in Minneapolis, MN. In his current in-house role as an eDiscovery Forensic Technology Lead Ricardo leads preservation and collection efforts of unstructured data, from scoping to post collection processing and analysis, for a wide range of legal matters and investigations on behalf of Meta. As an eDiscovery subject matter expert, Ricardo advises and partners with merits counsel, outside counsel, and internal cross functional technical teams to ensure deliverables are accurate, compliant, relevant, and ship securely to meet legal docket deadlines. Ricardo also leads proactive process improvement initiatives alongside his fellow eDiscovery Forensic Technologists. This includes streamlining technical workflows and documentation, and testing and validating tooling and other platforms to ensure they best meet the needs of his team, and the Company more broadly.