Cyan Banister

Co Founder
2006 - 2016
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.

2013 - 2016

Hot Potato

2007 - 2008

Banister Advisors

2006 - 2008

Recruiter
2006 - 2008
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.

2003 - 2006

Senior Manager, Security Operations
2005 - 2006
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%.
Manager of Strategic Support and Anti-Spam Operations
2005 - 2005
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.
Manager of Support, Worldwide
2004 - 2005
Standards and Practices Manager
2003 - 2004

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