Our Services
Healthcare: Strategic Comercial Consulting for the Life sciences sector
Kingston Ward has provided state-of-the-art Bioinformatics and Biostatistics solutions not only to the FDA and NIH but also to the top ten pharmas in the industry including Glaxo, Merck, and Pfizer.
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Revolutionary approach to solutions discovery using custom data visualization applications that integrate proprietary data with a groundbreaking interactive data analytics platform, creating new technology that lead to the discovery of insightful solutions for a broad scope of business and government challenges.
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Kingston Ward commercialized a live cell assay strategy for the application of their product in drug safety testing for the FDA. This strategy provided a sound approach for pre-clinical testing assays to help improve the safety and efficacy of drug candidates, including Federal/Industry safety consortium studies and additional project work for the FDA’s 21st Century Toxicology Initiative.
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Kingston Ward has also been heavily involved in Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web technologies, using both tools to gather data and mine topics of interest for identifying drug risks using pharmacogenetics knowledge bases. These efforts have included the development of strategies and concepts for the FDA and others in the industry.
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Most recently, Kingston Ward partnered with a Silicon Valley startup, winning a major SBIR Contract with the NIH- NHLBI for the development of a new web-based, cloud-hosted, data analytics platform for the analysis of multiparameter, single cell biology data, overseeing the deployment of the SaaS to nine of the ten leading pharmaceutical firms and fifteen of the country’s largest research universities involved in cancer immunotherapy research and the Federal Cancer Moonshot program.
Financial Services
Kingston Ward specializes in providing Business Services to Federal Agencies for the management of programs requiring Accounts Receivable, Payables, Financial Accounting, and Reporting.
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Experienced Team of senior managers with proven Management Consulting, Business Service Outsourcing, Software as a Service (SaaS) implementation, Data Analytics, Compliance, Performance Management and Business Process Re-engineering.
Proven expertise in Financial Aid, Grants, and Loan Programs, Financial Management and Regulatory Compliance. Successfully transitioned multiple large loan life cycle projects for multiple federal agency financial aid programs.
Comprehensive background in mortgage banking, building financial systems and successfully transitioning large BSP projects for multiple federal agencies.
Big 4 Consulting and industry-leading methodologies and regulatory compliance expertise.
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Many government programs find themselves with outdated technology that limits ability to operate efficiently and effectively and to remain compliant with security and other standards. If your technology just needs to be updated, a key to successful modernization is selecting a firm that understands both the technology available, the business processes and control requirements. Selecting a contractor knowledgeable of best practices for your business processes will expedite the achievement of your goals at a fraction of the cost of hiring a team that has to be educated.
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Many outdated technology platform challenges can be addressed through readily available SaaS solutions. Today’s technology isn’t custom developed or even acquired as licensed software. Cloud-based, on demand, plug and play application solutions are readily available to address the simple to the complex.
These tools can be easily configured to address the unique requirements of most programs and even the code can be easily tailored to a client’s unique requirements.
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Hiring a single firm to provide FISMA compliant, secure Cloud-based software as a service combined with proven expertise to utilize the software and operate an entire business process can ensure a reliable, cost-effective solution. The BSO approach eliminates the challenges of integrating multiple contractors, multiple systems, and different technology platforms into a cohesive team working together in an effective, consistent and reliable manner.
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Proven techniques for migrating financial platforms to the Cloud are readily available. Experience with several major programs migrated from on-premises hosting to full Cloud operations on Amazon Web Services. Many of the time consuming and frustrating challenges of data processing are effectively solved by migrating to the Cloud. Plus, the availability of resources expands exponentially.
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Asset Management can take many forms based on the type of asset. Financial Assets, Loans, Receivables, and other forms of Debt that require tracking, accounting, and collection. Kingston Ward has the broad experience to manage all aspects of financial asset programs as well as assisting federal agencies with the entire life cycle of financial management, accounting, reporting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, regulatory compliance.
Real estate finance
Kingston Ward has successfully performed numerous engagements for the management of Federal programs requiring Loan Origination, Underwriting, Servicing, Risk Analysis, Accounts Receivable, Payables, Financial Accounting and Reporting.
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Our team has prior experience supporting the underwriting and booking of commercial loans under the HUD Section 312 and other programs.
Utilizing ASI’s proprietary OptiAM® – A/R Software as a Service (SaaS), several key members of our team have hands-on experience transitioning, implementing, hosting, operating, and providing support for major Loan Underwriting programs including the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) National Loan Servicing Support (NLSS), the Generic Debt Program, the HECM Insurance Accounting and Collection Program, the Department of Justice, US Trustees Bankruptcy Fee Collection Program and many others.
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We have also worked extensively with the private sector market providing loan underwriting and asset management services to include loan origination and servicing, debt collection, accounts receivable and grants processing.
We have direct experience providing both commercial software tools and custom application development along with Business Process Outsourcing to assist multiple clients with loan underwriting, data analytics, performance monitoring and reporting required to deliver new services to the market.