Ed Lawrence

Ed Lawrence has a strong background in IT operations and management. Ed started their career as a Network Technician at Jupiter Medical Center, where they provided support for network connections and installed desktops in various medical departments. Ed then became the PACS Administrator, responsible for supporting servers and desktops for picture archival and communications systems.

After that, Ed joined ScriptLogic Corporation as a Server Engineer before transitioning to DataNet Resources Corp as a Systems Engineer. In these roles, they installed, managed, and supported servers, networks, and telecom for small to medium businesses. Ed also provided technical support and recommended solutions for data storage and retrieval goals.

Ed's experience continued to grow when they joined Clerk and Comptroller Palm Beach County as an IT Infrastructure Manager. In this role, they communicated updates and statuses to senior leadership, managed vendor relationships, developed IT governance standards, and supported the data center environment.

Ed later moved on to Discovery Inc as a Manager of IT Operations. Here, they led a global team of IT Systems and Network Engineers, AWS/Cloud Engineers, Administrators, and Technical Operations staff. Ed also assigned and managed projects, implemented staff consolidation and technical migrations, and employed Agile and Waterfall methodologies for IT and business application projects.

After Discovery Inc, Ed joined DAVACO as the Systems Engineering and Administration Manager. Ed led a team supporting various systems, including Windows, VMware, Linux, Nutanix HCI, Storage, Cisco Data and VoIP networks, Azure, and Active Directory. Ed also designed and implemented IT security strategies.

Currently, Ed is working as the Vice President of Cloud Operations at Omnigo, where they are responsible for overseeing cloud operations and compliance. Ed leads a team of cloud engineers and is involved in reducing and managing cloud spend, overseeing cloud migrations, and automating IaaS and SaaS deployments and upgrades.

Overall, Ed Lawrence has demonstrated consistent growth and expertise in IT operations and management throughout their career.

Ed Lawrence holds an Associate of Science degree in Computer Science. Ed obtained the degree, but the specific start and end years and the name of the school are not provided. In addition to their degree, Ed Lawrence has pursued various certifications throughout their career. These include the CISSP Cert Prep series, with each segment obtained in April 2020. Ed also holds the ITIL Foundation certification, achieved in October 2016. Ed Lawrence obtained the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification in June 2020 and the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification in March 2018. The institution for the ITIL Foundation certification is not mentioned, while the CISSP certification was obtained through (ISC)² and the AWS certification through Amazon Web Services (AWS).