Official Court Reporter
Pulaski County Circuit Court, 6th Judicial Circuit (Arkansas) · Little Rock, AR
Mar, 2020 · Present
Serve as official reporter for a felony and civil trial division, capturing 650+ hearings and 38 jury trials per year with 99.2% realtime translation accuracy.
Produce 18,000+ certified transcript pages annually for appeals to the Arkansas Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, meeting 100% of statutory filing deadlines.
Provide realtime feeds to the bench and counsel via CaseViewNet, cutting judge read-back requests by 40% and supporting 6 ADA accommodation requests.
Cleared a 1,200-page appellate transcript backlog inherited at hire within 5 months by building a scopist workflow and job-defined dictionary.
Maintain a 92,000-entry Case CATalyst dictionary with forensic, pharmacology, and firearms terminology; mentor 3 student interns from local reporting programs.
Freelance Deposition Reporter
Arkansas Valley Reporting Associates · Little Rock, AR
Jun, 2016 · Feb, 2020
Reported 1,150+ depositions, arbitrations, and EUOs for 60+ law firms, insurers, and state agencies across Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi.
Delivered 96% of expedited and daily-copy orders within 24 hours, helping the firm grow expedite revenue 35% over three years.
Launched the firm's remote deposition offering on Zoom in 2018, handling exhibits, breakout rooms, and secure recordings for 300+ remote sessions.
Captured complex medical-malpractice and product-liability testimony from 140+ expert witnesses with near-zero errata requests.
Built shared Eclipse job dictionaries for 4 reporters, reducing average scoping time per page by 22%.
CART Captioner
Natural State Captioning Services · Conway, AR
Aug, 2014 · May, 2016
Provided realtime CART for 900+ hours of university lectures, public meetings, and conferences for Deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers.
Maintained 98.5%+ verbatim accuracy at sustained speeds above 200 wpm across STEM, nursing, and legal-studies courses.
Captioned 45 city council and county quorum court sessions per year, publishing cleaned transcripts within 48 hours for public records.
Prepared topic-specific prep dictionaries of 3,000+ terms per semester in collaboration with 12 faculty members.