Don Williams

Senior Technical Analyst

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Up Nately, England, United Kingdom

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Timeline
About me
IT Solutions Architect and Security Consultant
Education
- Rondebosch Boy's High School
  1976 - 1980
  Matric
- University of Cape Town
  1986 - 1986
  B.Sc.(Hons) Applied Mathematics
- University of Cape Town
  1983 - 1985
  B.Sc. Computer Science
Experience
- Unix Information Systems
  Jan 1986 - Jan 1990
  Senior Technical Analyst
- Byte the Bits
  Jan 1990 - Jan 1991
  Senior Analyst Programmer
- Capgemini (then Hoskyns Group)
  Jan 1992 - Jan 1993
  Technical Consultant
- RWE npower (then National Power)
  Jan 1994 - Jan 1999
  Support and project implementation for scientific research and commercial trading systems. Support of Unix Systems (SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, OSF/1, Apollo), and numerous scientific applications for Research and Development Department.
  - Unix Team Leader
    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999
  - Unix System Administrator
    Jan 1994 - Jan 1996
- Virgin Media (then ntl)
  Jan 1999 - Jan 2004
  Wholesale Internet Product Development, VISP products Internet Technology Group. Co-ordination, installation, configuration, hardening and tuning of systems and applications for release of the ntlworld ISP.
  - Head of Infrastructure
    Jan 2002 - Jan 2004
  - Senior Systems Architect
    Jan 1999 - Jan 2002
- KSec Associates
  Jan 2004 - now
  Owner
  IT Consultancy
- Openwave
  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
  Senior Consultant
  Customer facing on-site support at ntl of migration to 5 million mailbox installation of Email Mx6, Edge Gx2 and McAfee Anti Spam. Development of logging and reporting infrastructure. Writing site specfic best practice operations guide.
- VISA
  Jan 2006 - Mar 2009
  Technical Specialist
  Deployment specialist, automated deployment script development, 3rd line support for production and test systems (Card Authorisation & Regional Clearing and Settlement Systems)
- Vodafone (then Cable & Wireless)
  May 2009 - Jul 2010
  Security Consultant
  Analysis, Design & Implementation of PCI DSS Compliance Solution for an Interactive Voice Response system
- BSkyB
  Aug 2010 - Oct 2011
  Technical Specialist / Security Analyst
  PCI/DSS Compliance, Infrastructure Delivery, Customer Business Systems
- Royal Bank of Scotland
  Jan 2012 - Oct 2014
  Solutions Designer, Infrastructure Architecture
  Creating Reference Architecture Building Blocks for use in designing PCI DSS compliant IT solutions. Working at many levels across the organisation with Business Stakeholders, Change Managers, Infrastructure Architects, Security Technologists, and Application Engineers to design, evaluate, test and implement PCI DSS Compliant Business Solution Architectures for Secure Information Processing.
- Vodafone
  Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
  PCI DSS Consultant
  Security Architecture Consultancy for NIVR platform. Developing security configuration standards for a range of system components, and scanning scripts to check and report on configuration for compliance auditing.
- NCC Group
  Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
  PCI DSS Consultant
  Providing security consultancy to NCC Group clients
- Nationwide Building Society
  Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
  Infrastructure Solutions Architect
  Providing Architecture and Consultancy Services for Cyber Security Programme. SIEM, SOC, Identity & Access Management, Privileged Session Management and Network Access Controls. Ensuring designs are fit for purpose and comply with Card Data Protection Programme (PCI DSS)
- Enterprise Blueprints
  Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
  Solutions Architect
  Providing Architecture Excellence to Enterprise Blueprints' Financial Clients
- Royal Bank of Scotland
  Oct 2015 - Aug 2017
  Senior Project Manager
  Delivering Infrastructure Security projects including security management tools for protection of customer and company information to ensure regulatory compliance including PCI DSS.
- ECS Security Ltd
  Feb 2018 - Sept 2018
  PCI DSS Consultant
  Providing security consultancy to ECS Clients
- Barclays
  Feb 2018 - Sept 2018
  PCI DSS Consultant
  PCI DSS advisory and approval role, Chief Information Security Office
- Centrica
  Sept 2018 - Nov 2020
  Information Security Risk and Assurance Consultant
  PCI DSS Compliance, Information Security Risk and Assurance
- Bramfitt Technology Labs
  Jan 2021 - now
  PCI DSS Consultant
  Providing security consultancy to BTL clients
- Centrica
  Jan 2021 - now
  PCI DSS Consultant
  PCI DSS Consultancy, Information Security Risk and Assurance
Licenses & Certifications
- PCIP (Payment Card Industry Professional)
  PCI Security Standards Council, LLC
  Feb 2013
- CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
  (ISC)2
  Sept 2004