About
Winston Lawrence
Currently a CISSP certified cybersecurity consultant and former Senior Project manager with more than 15 years experience in Information Technology Projects.
More than 25 years working with Information technology from Application Developer and Systems Administration
to Systems Architect and then project management.
I also love combining photography with technology which lets me play around with everything from
VR and 360 panoramas to Drone imaging.
Market Data and Real Time Market Data Support
Two year project to manage Data center circuit and Market Data application migrations including:
Algo Analytics; BGCantor Market Data; BT Global Financial Services; Bloomberg; DTCC; Fidessa;
IPC; KPMG; Liquidnet; MarketAxess; Teradata; Thomson Reuters; Zayo Group; Zephyr
Client facing ecommerce portal (Insurance)
Successful client-facing web-portal implementation. As part of the implementation a recommendation was made and demonstrated to provide claims history to subscribed clients. This resulted in a cost-savings of more than $250,000 in leased line costs per year and changed a cost-center operation into a seven-figure profit center as clients moved to a paid subscription model for claims history.
KYC, KYP, AML and other regulatory compliance programs
client engagements have implemented FINSEC regulatory and industry standard compliance programs in the Insurance, Investment Banking and Financial Services industries. Working closely with senior business stakeholders, IT Security and Application Technology teams these projects have implemented:
- Know your Partner (KYP), Know Your Client (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) services.
- Identity Verification and Management systems
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Transaction Monitoring services
- Fine Tuning of AML Transaction Monitoring Rules
- SARBOX remediation programs
- Supporting Threat Analytics and Risk Management teams to identify, review and mitigate current & future high-risk AML activities.
Datacenter Infrastructure and Technology support
Experience in working with remote engineering and support teams
- Global network card swap across more than 40,000 servers and 7 countries.
- Virtual desktop deployment to more than 20,000 North American users.
- Secure (external) internet gateway build to support 48,000 employees
- Secure (inbound) network/internet gateway to internal enterprise applications
Information Security Support
Experience working with IT security teams. Analyzing Firewall logs and implementing Firewall Rules
- Buildout state-of-the-art Internet Gateway for employee remote access to the internet and secure employee remote access to the internal network (Citrix).
- Multiple Symantec anti-virus deployments from 200 to 50,000 desktops
