Lawanda Jennings M.A.
About Lawanda Jennings M.A.
Title
Lawanda Jennings, M.A., currently holds the position of Senior Associate Data Security Incident Management at Alight Solutions. In addition, she serves as a Cloud Security Architect for Go Cloud Careers.
Company
Lawanda Jennings is associated with multiple organizations, including Alight Solutions where she works on data security incident management. She is also involved with Go Cloud Careers as a Cloud Security Architect.
Education and Expertise
Lawanda Jennings holds multiple degrees and certifications. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Phoenix between 2008 and 2012. She furthered her education at Argosy University, achieving a Master's in Human Services from 2016 to 2018. Jennings has specialized credentials in cybersecurity, having studied at Baxter Clewis and completed a program as a CyberSecurity Assurance Specialist. She is also a certified Cloud Security Architect from Go Cloud Architects.
Background
Lawanda Jennings has an extensive history in the field of security and data management. Earlier in her career, she worked at Publix Super Markets as an Internal Assessor for 14 years. Following that, she joined Baxter Clewis Consulting as a Security Analyst for 7 months in 2022. Currently, she holds positions in data security at Alight Solutions and cloud security at Go Cloud Careers.
Achievements
Throughout her career, Lawanda Jennings has designed and deployed security solutions for financial and healthcare clients. She has extensive experience with next-generation firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, VPN concentrators, and endpoint protection. Jennings has also designed and implemented IAM systems and led multi-cloud environment deployments using AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP. Her technical skills extend to developing and deploying containers for microservice applications and implementing VMware ESXI for server virtualization. Additionally, she regularly interfaces with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver presentations on cloud security architectures.