Bill has over thirty years of
executive management,
consulting, auditing and
hands-on software engineering
experience. As an IT Governance,
Audit and Privacy Specialist, his consulting
practice has concentrated on IT
security and privacy issues in
large public sector systems. He
has built a reputation among
CEOs, CIOs and members of the
audit community as a mentor and
source of good counsel with
unmatched integrity and
confidentiality.
A master of big vision and small details, he
brings in-depth technical IT knowledge and experience to
aligning computing power and resources with the business vision
and goals. Bill is also an expert in mastering the challenges of
corporate governance, organizational design and management
control in today's dynamic business and technical environment.
He brings astute analysis,
workable solutions and risk
mitigation strategies for the
daily problems faced by public
and private sector executives
struggling with governance and
privacy control challenges in the
increasingly invasive, complex
and rapidly changing technical
environment of the internet,
collaborative software and
business intelligence.
MIXED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR
EXPERIENCE
Bill has extensive mix of public and private
sector experience. Bill is the Senior Privacy Advisor for
M3AAWG, an
international organization focused on industry collaboration,
technology, and public policy to successfully address the
various forms of abuse, such as malware, spam, viruses,
denial-of-service attacks and other exploitations. As Chief Privacy Technologist for the Office
of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Mr. Wilson lead the
Technology Analysis Branch. In this role he was responsible for
increasing the technical capabilities of the OPC by teaming
together the brightest and best research technologists and IT
auditors and building the
technology lab into a world leading privacy research
facility. Prior to holding the position of Chief privacy
Technologist Mr. Wilson held the role of Senior Advisor where he
was responsible for defining, conducting and reporting on the IT
components of audits related to the protection of personal
information for both public and private sector organizations. As Senior Strategic Technology Officer for
the Bank of Montreal's e-commerce subsidiary, Cebra Inc., he
designed and managed the implementation of major portions of the
MERX on-line billing and public tendering system used by the
Government of Canada.
Driven at all times by the business
imperative, Bill developed overall enterprise plans, proposed
basic technology philosophies, architectural and infrastructure
vision. He planned the acquisition of computer hardware,
operating and application software systems, as well as conducted
technical due diligence assessments of potential corporate
strategic partnerships. Upon recognizing a risk management gap,
he developed a risk analysis and assessment methodology for
conducting developing system audits at the Bank of Montreal, now
part of its risk management policy.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bill developed the Privacy Risk Oversight
Framework used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to ensure
sufficient privacy risk analysis and ongoing privacy oversight
was implemented for their Biometric Enrollment project going
into 138 Visa Application Centers world-wide. Bill created and implemented WinExports, a
Canadian business database running on a secure network in all of
Canada's trade offices and diplomatic posts throughout the
world. Funded by World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and
the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), he led a development team in
computerizing the internal revenue system for the island of St.
Lucia, and, funded by CIDA, analyzed business requirements and
developed a computerized ledger system for the Caribbean
Development Bank (CDB).
Other international development IT initiatives
have taken Bill to Canadian embassies and consular locations to
implement highly secure systems. He has worked in Beijing, Taipei
and Hong Kong as part of a privacy audit of the Canada Passport
Office for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. He
also conducted, for the Privacy Commissioner, an evaluation and
performance audit of the impact of the Treasury Board
Secretariat's policy on Privacy Impact Assessments. His report
"PC"s at the Posts" is considered a landmark on computer
security and on the benefits of introducing personal computers
at CIDA posts.
He has conducted IT security audits using
COBIT and similar standards of the British Columbia Lottery
Corporation and the Canadian Pharmacists Association. He has
reviewed the configuration management used by Public Works and
Government Services Canada (PWGSC) for the federal government's
computer and telecommunications holdings.
He has spoken
and presented on the topics of
privacy and security at
conferences all over the world.
EDUCATION
Bill has a Diploma in Computer Sciences
(Herzing College, Ottawa) and is a Certified Information Systems
Auditor (CISA) and Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT
(CGEIT), both received from the Information Systems Audit and
Control Association (ISACA). He has extensive teaching
experience including developing and delivering Computer Crime
Investigative Techniques, for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
and a computer audit and security course developed and delivered
to the Canada Revenue Agency. He is a much sought-after speaker
in the privacy and IT audit and security community.