Senior System Administrator
CurrentEmail, web, private cloud, security, and general hosting operations support and system administration. See earlier entry (2008-2017) for more details...
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William Cole is listed as Senior System Administrator at CipherSpace, LLC at CipherSpaceLLC, a company with 8 employees, based in Eastpointe, Michigan, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at pccc.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for William Cole.
William Cole previously worked as Senior System Administrator at Cipherspacellc and Independent Consultant & Senior Developer at Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation. William Cole holds B. A., General Science, Theatrical Design & Technology from Webster University.
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I'm NOT currently looking for work, as I arguably have at least 1 more job than I should! The attached resume is missing my current position. (I've returned to CipherSpace.)I have over 2 decades of diverse IT experience in large and small companies and as an independent consultant. I have been involved in fighting spam since the early 90's (no kidding!) both professionally and as an activist. I have been a user of Unix and Unix-like (e.g. Linux, Xenix, Ultrix, etc.) and MacOS systems since the early 80's and have administered systems professionally since the early 90's for businesses ranging in size from 1-man startups to Global 50 corporations.Specialties: Spam control (and its evil twin deliverability management,) Unix-like OSs (FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Tru64, AIX,) E-Mail ( Postfix, CGP, Sendmail, Dovecot, SpamAssassin,) DNS (BIND, rbldnsd), Apache HTTPD (and a little nginx too,) Information security, virtualization (QEMU/KVM, XenServer, VMWare, FreeBSD jails, OpenNebula,) Unix toolsmithing (primarily shell and perl), writing HTML by hand, and explaining technical matters to non-technical people.
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Morristown, NJ, USA (100% telecomnmute)
Email, web, private cloud, security, and general hosting operations support and system administration. See earlier entry (2008-2017) for more details...
Fairfax, Virginia, USA (100% telecomnmute)
Spam control programming, related system tinkering, and support. Switched to part-time May 2019
New Jersey, Switzerland, India (100% Telecommute)
Key roles & achievements: Sole customization developer (Perl) & 3rd-level tech support for RequestTracker (RT) support ticket system. Architect & primary builder of a redesigned highly-resilient, attack-resistant DNS infrastructure for hundreds of zones (including registered domains, their subdomains, reverse zones for allocated IP space, and reverse zones.
Supported 50-150 mixed Unix hosts: Solaris (v. 2.6-10,) Tru64 (4.0f/g) and Linux (multiple distributions.) Technical leader, toolsmith, and security guru for Unix admins. Built and ran Volkswagen of America external mail/spam filtering gateways. Maintained customized system images for deployment of new systems. Built and supported shared infrastructure and.
Continued in essentially the same role after T-Systems merger with gedas.
Supported 50-150 mixed Unix hosts: Solaris (v. 2.6-10,) Tru64 (4.0f/g) and Linux (multiple distributions.) Technical leader, toolsmith, and security guru for Unix admins. Built and ran Volkswagen of America external mail/spam filtering gateways. Maintained customized system images for deployment of new systems. Built and supported shared infrastructure and.
See the description for my job at T-Systems for full details. I joined gedas (a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG) in 2001 as a Unix System Administrator and continued in that role (with a new and less expressive title) after the 2007 acquisition of gedas by T-Systems (a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary.)
Managed the Policy Administration Services program, which provided outsourced abuse desk service to Internet service providers.
Provided training on network abuse issues and online investigation methods to external customers. Created software tools to meet the needs of the PAS abuse desk outsourcing operation. Advised PAS clients and staff on operational issues and on the handling of difficult cases.
Responsible for support of the DaimlerChrysler Extranet, a complex of webservers, proxies, firewalls, database connections, and network access systems linking DCX and their business partners. Provided 2nd and 3rd level support for end users and IT staff of business partners using the Extranet. Created support documentation for 1st-level and off-hours.
One of a team of 12 administrators providing 24x7 2nd level support for all non-mainframe, non-Novell server systems at Chrysler, primarily Solaris and AIX with some older Unix-based and NT 4.0 systems. Approximately 600 machines located around the world ranging from 'pizza-box' servers to IBM SP/2 and Sun Enterprise 10000 machines. Responsible for problem.
Performed all IT planning, administrative, and support duties for Mac and Windows desktops, printers, and both onsite and colocated Linux servers. Acted as internal consultant to the owner/publisher on all information systems issues, and specified all corporate computing and data communications purchases. Primary architect and webmaster for all online.
St. Louis, MO And Detroit, MI, USA
Independent consulting, working primarily with small businesses providing strategic analysis for IT issues, system administration, systems integration planning, and technical support during the 1990's. Business largely dormant 1999-present, due primarily to the requirements of my other employment.
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Satish Manohar
Colleague at CipherspacellcParsippany, New Jersey, United States, United States
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Mahendra Mistry
Colleague at CipherspacellcMumbai Metropolitan Region, India
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Jasmin Bertschinger
Colleague at CipherspacellcSteinhausen, Zug, Switzerland, Switzerland
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Nikesh Thakkar
Colleague at CipherspacellcMorristown, New Jersey, United States, United States
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Spent my first 3 years in the Conservatory of Theater Arts, final year in science courses to meet G.S. major requirements.
3/4-time course load for 3 trimesters focused on getting the necessary prerequisites for admission to graduate CS program.
3 semesters full-time+ in Chemistry (B.Sc.) curriculum, learning that I didn't actually want to be a professional chemist.
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William Cole holds B. A., General Science, Theatrical Design & Technology from Webster University.
William Cole is listed with skills including Servers, Linux, Operating Systems, Unix, Perl, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, and Shell Scripting.
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