William "Winter" Fielder

William "Winter" Fielder

Rock Hall, Maryland, United States
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By day a Principal Consultant for Red Hat Inc., specializing in infrastructure, identity…

Articles by William "Winter"

  • The Black Rabbit on Firewalls

    Maybe you’ve heard that security is all about layers. Even better, everything is all about layers, including the…

  • The Black Rabbit on Security Vs. Usability

    Many security engineers default to deny and respond with “no” to any request for access. A better approach may be to…

  • The Black Rabbit on Allowing Root SSH

    The rule of thumb is to never allow root ssh. What if you had to? You shouldn’t allow root ssh.

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  • The Black Rabbit on Inside Attacks

    Sofia the rabbit wants to hop out of the playpen, and she’s not going to stop trying until she succeeds. What is blue…

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Experience

  • Red Hat Graphic

    Red Hat

    Washington DC-Baltimore Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Milford, Delaware

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    Annapolis, MD

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    Chestertown, Maryland

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    Washington D.C.

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    Washington D.C.

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    Washington, D.C.

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    New York City

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    New York City

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    New York City

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    Washington, D.C.

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    Washington, D.C.

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    Bethesday, Maryland

Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Chair (2007-2009), Programs Chair (2007-2010)

    Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery

    - 3 years 6 months

    Science and Technology

  • Treasurer | Shelter Volunteer

    Eastern Shore Rabbit Rescue and Education Center

    - Present 11 years 6 months

    Animal Welfare

    Provide technical support for issues such as domain administration, email, database, and web services. Voting Member-at-Large on the Board of Directors. Technical advisor.

    Clean cages, provide fresh food and water, and administer medicines to shelter rabbits. Scritch and hug said rabbits as necessary.

    Elected Treasurer January 2020, currently holding the position.

  • Ethical Hacker, On-Call Specialist

    Rock Hall, Maryland Police and Fire Departments

    - Present 11 years 1 month

    Social Services

    Perform continuing security assessments for the Rock Hall Police and Fire Department networks and recommend remediations.

    Provide consultation on RHPD cases that require expertise in computer systems, networks, intrusion detection and response, or digital forensics.

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    Ethical Hacker, On-Call Specialist

    Chadwell Animal Hospital

    - Present 13 years 3 months

    Animal Welfare

    Provide intrusion remediations, conduct digital forensic investigations, and consult with law enforcement on behalf of the hospital in response to any cyber attack.

Honors & Awards

  • Red Hat Giveback Gray Star

    Red Hat

    The Red Hat Giveback Program is an incentive program to recognize individuals who go above and beyond the duties of their day job to support knowledge-sharing across Red Hat. They help set the example as a collaborator, leader, problem-solver, and learner in driving high quality services and solutions for our customers.

  • Red Hat Giveback Blue Star

    Red Hat

    The Red Hat Giveback Program is an incentive program to recognize individuals who go above and beyond the duties of their day job to support knowledge-sharing across Red Hat. They help set the example as a collaborator, leader, problem-solver, and learner in driving high quality services and solutions for our customers.

  • Red Hat Automation & Management Champions Award

    Red Hat

    The Red Hat Automation & Management Champions award is meant to recognize associates each quarter who go above and beyond to help their customers or stakeholders succeed with Red Hat Automation & Management. The voting committee is made up of leaders across the organization such as engineering manager, marketing managers, PM manager, etc.

  • Red Hat NAPS CoRE Peer Recognition Award

    Red Hat

  • Red Hat Service Star

    Red Hat

    William has an amazing drive and willingness to see the customer succeed. He's a team player and always goes above and beyond the call of duty. His expertise, work ethic and honest feedback to the client about
    what products should be used for what (Sat 6, OpenSCAP, kickstarts, IdM) quickly builds a level of trust that is rarely seen in the first few weeks of an engagement, let alone the first few days!

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Usenix

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  • Eastern Shore Rabbit Rescue

    Treasurer, Technical Advisor

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  • The Internet Society

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  • Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery

    Chair (2007 - 2009), Programs Chair (2007 - 2010)

    - Present
  • Association of C and C++ Users

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    - Present
  • Association for Computing Machinery

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  • Free Software Foundation

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