Specialties:recruiting, hiring, management, anti-spam abuse investigation, scaling operations, technical fire fighting, customer support

Ev"angel"ist @ From June 2015 to Present (5 months) Co-founder @ Secret for now ;-) More soon. From April 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Owner @ https://angel.co/cyantist From August 2008 to Present (7 years 3 months) CEO @ Support the art you love! Zivity, a San Francisco start-up which launched at TechCrunch40 in 2007, is a subscription and vote-based artist/fan interaction platform that sits at the intersection of American Idol, Facebook and Playboy. Fans interact with artists and vote for their favorite content. Zivity’s dollar-backed votes distribute cash payments to its content producers. From February 2006 to Present (9 years 9 months) Investor @ From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) Recruiter @ I no longer actively recruit, but I'll pass on resumes to companies I'm involved with, so if you are an engineer, please contact me. From February 2006 to 2008 (2 years) Senior Manager, Security Operations @ Managed the SpamCop operations group which oversaw the world's largest known spammer blacklist. Spam submissions were sent in from an avid community of reporters from around the world who each individually did their part in the fight for the reduction of spam for our inboxes. The SpamCop blacklist is used as a weight in many popular spam fighting engines that protect email infrastructure for governments, large enterprises, schools and private individuals. Oversaw a 24/7 Virus & Malware threat operation center who's primary responsibility was monitoring real-time attacks and deploying rules to IronPort's world-wide customer infrastructure. Managed a team of multi-lingual rule writers for IronPort's anti-spam engine. IronPort's engineers were responsible for 99% of the efficacy of our engines and our team was responsible for the remaining 1%. From December 2005 to February 2006 (3 months) Manager of Strategic Support and Anti-Spam Operations @ Created a group that continues to exist within Cisco that oversees the metrics, customer satisfaction and support infrastructure for IronPort's world-wide customer base. From May 2005 to November 2005 (7 months) Manager of Support, Worldwide @ From September 2004 to June 2005 (10 months) Standards and Practices Manager @ From October 2003 to September 2004 (1 year) Standards and Practices Manager @ From March 2002 to October 2003 (1 year 8 months) CTO @ From July 2001 to March 2002 (9 months) Tools and Automation Engineer @ From January 2001 to June 2001 (6 months) Operations - Systems Administration - Development Support @ From January 1999 to January 2001 (2 years 1 month) Systems Admin / Support Manager @ From September 1997 to September 1998 (1 year 1 month)

Cyan Banister is skilled in: Business Operations, Information Security, Management, Recruiting, Start-ups, New Ventures, Customer Support, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Being Goofy, Software Development, Making the world sexier, Social Networking, Fundraising, Cloud Computing, Venture Capital, Marketing Strategy, Facebook, Social Media, Strategy, Ruby on Rails, Mobile Applications, Product Development, Mobile Devices, Product Management, SaaS, Monetization, Enterprise Software, User Experience, Strategic Partnerships, Community Management, Ruby, Online Marketing, E-commerce, User Interface Design, Scalability, Content Strategy, Open Source, Web Marketing