Giuseppe Tarantino

Experience

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  Studio Legale Melpignano

  May 2004 - Aug 2005

  Trainee solicitor

  > Trained in a law practice; gained experience in Italian civil litigation, commercial law;> Carried out legal researches and drafted court applications and letters;> Responsible for organising bundles and filing to be served to courts and counterparties;> Attended courts for hearings and for ad-hoc administrative duties client meetings, interviewed clients, and reported to the Partner.

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  Council of Rome: Citizens Advice Bureau for Consumer Protection

  Apr 2005 - Oct 2005

  Paralegal

  > Provided legal advice to citizens on issues related to consumer law;> Negotiated successful mediation between the parties;> First point of contact for clients, requiring discretion and good interpersonal skills;> Developed good problem solving attitude while delivering practical advices to the public;> Assisted with ad-hoc administrative duties: filing and creating precedents database.

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  Legal Advice Centre at the College of Law

  Apr 2011 - May 2011

  Legal Advisor

  > Provided legal representation in employment law disputes;> Critically analysed case papers and advised on the drafting of a witness statement.

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  Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

  Mar 2012 - Apr 2012

  Paralegal

  > Worked on a high profile project revising documents for the preparation of the standard disclosure in a claim involving issues of international law;> Applied analytical skills, attention to details, team work.

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  Bond Solicitors

  May 2012 - Sept 2012

  Senior Legal Assistant

  • Assisted Partners in analysing and setting out the legal basis for litigation;• Drafted legal documents requiring analytical and highly accurate written skills; • Managed private client’s employment law cases with good organisational skills;• Interviewed clients, requiring ability to develop good relationships in a professional environment, excellent intellectual capacity, ability to handle confidential information;• Prepared and attended internal meetings, conferences with barristers, case hearings;• Supervised the work of the legal assistants’ team;• Carried out academic legal research to support the preparation of professional trainings. Show less

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  RR Donnelley

  Apr 2014 - Apr 2016

  • Managing performance of teams based in London (up to 15 members) and off-shore in India (up to 30 members), leading, overseeing and coordinating the day-to-day shift activities including jobs planning, estimating and prioritising to ensure the requests’ accuracy and timely completion;• Managing efficiently the department’s operations, deploying a proactive attitude blended with excellent organisational skills and ability to multi-task;• Managing all Document Centre Administration; • Communicate daily with the Office Secretary to effectively allocate resources and help minimise problems across the office;• Develop and manage the overtime rotas and create a Document Centre pool of employees to contact when resource issues arise;• Attend weekly/monthly meetings to report/highlight progress or any issues;• Liasing with requestors, team members and PA’s regarding timely completion of work, and developing good working relationships, understanding their needs and concerns. Show less • Project Manager advising on a global auditing project for Goldman Sachs International;• The project entailed creating a contracts’ database to simplify the control over the Firm's existing commercial and legal relationships with its vendors around the globe;• Oversaw the project from inception to completion ensuring all time-lines and tasks were achieved to plan while acting as main point of contact and direction for all key stakeholders, e.g. Goldman Sachs Executive Director, RR Donnelley Head of Account;• Scoped, budgeted, set up project phases, created project plans / timelines and followed up regularly throughout the project’s duration;• Developed a solid understanding of the services provided by RR Donnelley and ensured the staff had the ability to complete all tasks effectively;• Identified stakeholders and established a communication plan while conveying between client's requests and available resources;• Attended weekly management meetings to report the project’s progress and review with the client to ensure adherence to performance and management processes; • Developed a cohesive and well-informed team with a consistent can do attitude;• Created a brand new document checking system and lead upcoming transition into a new working process via liaison with circa 100 vendor’s managers employed by GS globally;Delivered a new Target Operating Model allowing the new implemented process to be comfortably in use with the client. Show less

  • Assistant Manager - IBD Presentation Centre

    Apr 2006 - Apr 2016

  • Project Manager

    Apr 2014 - Jan 2015
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  Williams Lea

  Apr 2016 - now

  • Head of the London document centre team, triaging and allocating all inbound document requests, scoping tasks and liaising with clients to manage expectations and negotiate deadlines.• Responsible for the day-to-day operation including managing capacity against demand whilst delivering to tight deadlines.• First point of contact for stakeholders requesting work carried out by the document production team. • Day to day management of the document production team, including supervising the day shift team, with ability to deliver excellent client service via strong interpersonal skills and a high level of technical and business understanding. • Working ‘hands-on’ delivering daily organization / training of the team, creating PowerPoint client templates, improving documents’ graphics and layouts, quick amendments. • Working with team based in the US to evolve processes, develop best practice and procedures.• Working alongside management to identify opportunities to enhance service’s efficiency of delivery.• Adopt a client orientated approach, ensuring excellent client experience at all times and identifying opportunities to add value wherever possible. Show less • Managing the day-to-day operations of the DTP team; work allocation,quality control, escalation, holiday and absence management;• Management of resources, including temporary contractors, weekly staff scheduling;• Conducting annual and mid-year performance reviews;• Formatting PowerPoint presentations to clients’ templates. Identifying and initiatingimprovements to graphics and layouts;• Providing MS Office support and troubleshooting – assisting team members with Word /PowerPoint / Excel queries;• Working on PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat Pro – including editing, watermarking andredacting;• Strong sense of client delivery, establishing solid working relationships, and advising clientson the best and most appropriate solutions to their visual communication needs;• Supported systems’ migration to Windows 2016 systems: testing, setting-up new tools;• Constantly focusing on improving service quality and optimising workflow. Show less

  • Creative Service at Piper Sandler Limited

    Nov 2022 - now

  • Manager - DTP Graphics Dept. at Lazard & Co Ltd

    Apr 2016 - Jan 2023