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Background

Three careers. One through-line.

Most professionals build depth in one discipline. Mine has built depth in three — and each one is load-bearing for the next. The thread connecting them: I have always worked where process discipline is inseparable from outcome quality.

Sean Hanson

I'm a solo consultant based in St. Joseph, Minnesota. I work directly with law firms to automate document workflows, client intake, and the repetitive administrative work that quietly consumes attorney and staff time.

I use Anthropic's Claude to build practical automations that fit into your existing workflow — no rip-and-replace, no new software your team won't use. You'll see results quickly, and you'll understand exactly what's running.

What I bring to that work is a background in environments where process discipline wasn't optional — military intelligence, medical device manufacturing, large-scale energy infrastructure. The instincts those environments build transfer directly to the work of making a law firm run more precisely.

SeanMHanson@hotmail.com  ·  (980) 221-5702  ·  LinkedIn

Life 1 — The Foundation

US Navy & Jabil Healthcare

Military Intelligence · Precision Medical Device Manufacturing

I began my professional life holding two distinct roles simultaneously inside the United States Navy. Both shaped the way I think about process, accountability, and precision in ways no classroom could have.

CTI2 / E5 — Russian Linguist, Military Intelligence
I interpreted and analyzed foreign communications, producing intelligence reports used at the highest levels of U.S. policy. Intelligence analysis demands something directly transferable to process work: the ability to take incomplete, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory information and produce a coherent, defensible conclusion. That is root cause analysis. That is gap analysis. That is problem-solving under pressure.
Classified Materials Documentation Librarian
Concurrently, I supervised and trained a junior Petty Officer in the management of classified materials — chain-of-custody, physical security, end-to-end document lifecycle, auditing, discrepancy resolution. In this environment, "close enough" was not a standard. It was a security breach. This was my first supervisory experience, and it happened in a zero-defect compliance context.

After the Navy, I arrived at Jabil Healthcare in Asheville, North Carolina — a facility producing precision pharmaceutical delivery devices including insulin pens and asthma inhalers. The stakes were different, but the standard I held myself to was the same: errors affect people.

As Quality Engineer and then Quality Project Manager, I built and owned:

Errors affect people. That standard follows you — into every industry, every role, every workflow you touch.

Life 2 — The Architecture

ERP Consulting & Blattner Energy

Standards Adoption · Enterprise Process Improvement

If Life 1 taught me what good standards look like, Life 2 taught me how to build standards that organizations actually adopt. That is a harder problem — and it requires a different skill set.

Software Trainer & CRM Consultant — Key-Logic / Electrolux North America
I designed and implemented standardized templates and training programs, maintaining tight alignment with enterprise governance requirements, customer constraints, and style guide standards simultaneously. The measure of success was never whether the templates were technically correct — it was whether people used them. Adoption is the only metric that matters in standards work.
E-Commerce Manager & Corporate Trainer — Education Community Credit Union
I came in without platform expertise, learned a new technology stack, built standard operating procedures from scratch, and kept the operation running. The lesson it reinforces: domain fluency is learnable. Process thinking is transferable. The instinct to find the broken handoff, define the standard, and make it stick works whether you're in military intelligence, a clean-room medical device facility, or a financial services back office.
Process Improvement Analyst — Blattner Energy
At Blattner I worked inside the operating system — learning how work actually flows across teams, understanding how the technology ecosystem connects, and building the cross-functional trust that is the real lever for standard adoption. You can have the best template in the world. Without trust, it sits on a shared drive.

Specific project work at Blattner included:

The gap between a well-written procedure and a well-followed one is not a documentation problem. It's a trust and communication problem. Knowing that changes how you build.

Life 3 — What It Produces

Legal Process Automation

Where three careers converge

Put these experiences together and a particular kind of professional emerges — not a credential set, but a way of operating. Someone who has worked in environments where process discipline was not optional has a different relationship to standards than someone who learned them in a classroom.

They don't need to be convinced that documentation matters. They already know what happens when it doesn't.

For law firms, that translates into three specific capabilities:

There is a difference between understanding a process and having lived inside one. Having created procedures under deadline, watched adoption fail for reasons that had nothing to do with the template, and built cross-functional relationships from scratch rather than from authority — that experience tends to change how you approach the work.

It makes you slower to assume the standard is wrong and quicker to ask why it isn't being followed.

Let's find your five minutes a day.

Book a free consultation and we'll identify one thing slowing your team down — and show you what fixing it looks like.

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or email SeanMHanson@hotmail.com or call (980) 221-5702