Chris Lawrence

About Chris Lawrence

Combine a strategic senior leader with business, sales, and product development. C-Level management and project management with a 25+ year track record of business consultancy and analysis enabling accelerated revenue and profit growth.Product Management: consult and advise multiple board and product teams soft and hard product development prior to initial market release.Compliance - HIPAA, PCI, 9001,+ITIL Processes, Standards and PoliciesAutomation, DevOps, SecOpsBudget (P&L) ResponsibilitiesVendor and Contract ManagementThis career has provided the opportunity to lead teams through extensive design, implementation, audits, standards, processes, procedures, sales & security initiatives. Service provider, enterprise & global requirements for compliance, compute, analytics, UC and CCAt Cisco, sales and product dev for Multimedia ML and translation services for communications with Cisco TelePresence, UCaaS and CCaaS, FIRST codecs for integrating WebRTC and H.264 with SIP or other signaling. At Vonage Business I led as a senior contributor to multiple projects creating a portfolio of solutions generating over $100 million annually in 5 years versus $2 million in that sector two years prior. Company had transition to VPN for 80 sales in-plant offices in the Americas saving the company over $5M Cost avoidance in TCO. Closed Airborne Express tech acquisition by DHL. The effort involved a data center migration (mainframe included) and solely led the shutdown of the data center consolidation effort while maintaining active growth at the new data centers. We must have routers, switches, firewalls, sniffers, security, management tools, load balancing, proxies, MPLS, VPNs, WAN Circuits (T1, DS3, OC3 all the way up to OC192) and more. Design, Implement DC compute, IaaS,(LAN/MAN/WAN), NICE, BroadSoft BroadWorks, Cisco UC versions 3-10+, UCCE Call Center, voice gateways, SBCs and QoS over MPLS.

Experience

1. Chief Information Officer, Chief Information Security Officer

   Positivity

   Feb 2018 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

   Platforms, Playbooks, Policies, Standards and Processes to exceed compliance and enterprise requirements with almost 30 locations, employees and approximately 15 technical staff. Manage a team of engineers, database, development, and BI to enable the business development growth. Design, implementation and support for infrastructure, cloud services and customer care contact center. Vendor and partner relationship development and management leading to over $5 million in annual cost avoidance.

Education

• University of Phoenix

  Business Administration

  2007

Skills

• Qos
• Ccnp
• Telecommunications
• Network Engineering
• Network Architecture
• Wan
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Sdlc
• Bgp
• Unified Communications
• Switches
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Cisco Technologies
• Eigrp
• Cisco Call Manager
• Vpn
• Ospf
• Project Management
• Mpls
• Networking
• Executive Management
• Ccna
• Voip
• Routers
• Data Center
• Routing
• Disaster Recovery
• Telepresence