Charles L. "Lynn" McGuire
Chief Information Officer
Lynn is responsible for all aspects of Information Technology for this international law firm including Help Desk, PC Techs, Network Services and Infrastructure, Application Development, PMO and Training.
While at Andrews Kurth, Lynn has accomplished the following:
- Rebuilding the team for all departments while consolidating six different and disparate operating systems into one supportable environment on Windows- and Intel-based platforms. This involved migration of the firm’s GroupWise system to MS Exchange and Active Directory across all U.S. offices.
- Managed the conversion of the document management system from SoftSolutions to iManage, developed change control procedures for servers and applications along with consistent user communications and notices regarding IT activities, and implemented a model office for staging development and moves to the production environment.
- Created a Project Management Office concept to promote project consistency and reporting not only in IT but across multiple departments within the firm.
- Created complete Disaster Recovery manual and procedures along with redundancy for the firm to ensure continued operations should a disaster impact the primary data center on key systems.
His efforts allowed Andrews Kurth to lead the legal industry in both staffing ratios and IT to gross revenue while improving quality and delivery of IT services.
Lynn successfully integrated IT departments and multiple locations of a merger of equal firms to a single entity while maintaining operational integrity and continued delivery of legal services to clients.
Prior to working at Andrews Kurth, Lynn worked in a variety of senior and executive IT roles at EDS, Perot Systems, Equifax and Fish & Richardson.
Publications
- "Moving 100,000 E-Mails a Day: Andrews Kurth mounts a strong defense to help avoid e-mail outages," Law Firm Inc. (November 2004)
