I wear a lot of plaid.
Hey guys! I’m Ryan. I’m a 24 year old Georgia Tech grad. I like to code, read, run, cook, sing (in the shower), and laugh. Oh do I love to laugh.
I’m currently living in Seattle and working for Microsoft as a Program Manager on the Microsoft Office User Experience Team. I’m new to it, but it is shaping up to be fun and challenging work.
While I was at Georgia Tech, I was involved in a lot of activities outside the classroom. I was on the Advisory Board for a recruitment program called Connect with Tech, I did some mentoring within the College of Computing, and I served as the Chair of our Student Government Association‘s Information Technology Committee. I was able to make a real difference on campus, and do some truly challenging work.
I grew up in Paducah, Ky, and I spent three summers as an Intern at a Banking Software Company in P-town. Up until I left for college, I lived there all my life, so I’m pretty familiar with the teeny town.
I spent the Summer of 2010 working as a software engineering intern in Geospatial Services for ConocoPhillips. They were pretty darn good to me. 
While I was there I developed a web portal for geospatial data. The portal allows land analysts, geophysicists and others to organize, search and manage map data. All the data’s also available via RESTful web services, so we were able to build some other apps on top of it!
I’ve been in love with technology ever since my Dad brought home the family’s first computer. The older I got, the more interested I became in the behind-the-scenes stuff. It started with HTML and Javascript(doesn’t it always?) and a year or so later, I was calling myself a programmer. I was doing a lot of Perl/CGI development in high school, and I really think that exposure to programming and databases gave me a leg up when I first arrived at Tech.
The technical stuff that really interests me? These are a few: human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, the social aspects of the web, mobility, start-ups and entrepreneurship, and computing education.
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