Intention: To lead in the creation of innovative IT solutions in support of sustainable global economics.

 

APIGEE: 01/2011 – Present:  Customer Success, Solution Architecture

http://apigee.com  Executive Consulting Solution Architect focused on Strategic Accounts in the telecommunications, finance, entertainment, and industrial sectors for both public cloud and private cloud deployment topologies of the Apigee Gateway ‘proxlet’ service framework and adjacent solutions for instrumentation and integration of SAML and OAuth v1.0a v2.x tokens with REST/JSON and SOAP/XML APIs.  Lead Architect and hands on installation and configuration of solutions for more than 10 enterprise deployments of Apigee in 2011, the most recent being api.x.com for eBay / PayPal’s launch of x.commerce on Oct 12 at Innovate.

 

JOYENT:  03/2010 - 01/2011:  Chief Security Officer (CSO), Customer Success Lead Architect

http://joyent.com Smart Computing for public, private and hybrid platform as a service distributed topologies. 

Cloud Security Alliance, Trusted Cloud Initiative:  Reference Architecture, Co-Lead

 

ASPECT-i:  06/2008 - 03/2010:  Owner, CTO, Federated Cloud Security & Integration Architect

Innovation Integrator & Executive Consulting IT Architect, http://aspect-i.com

ASPECT-i is an IT Consulting firm specializing in the operational aspects of IT that are critical to business success – Availability, Security, Performance, Efficiency, Capacity (elasticity), and Technology management.  Ryan partners closely with the major technology ISVs that he has done business with over the years, and is also acting as an independent consultant to the CTOs of technology startups in NY and in Silicon Valley to create an ecosystem of solutions for businesses who wish to implement IT innovations for efficiency and competitive differentiation.

Feb 2009 – Present:  Lead Solution & Security Architect, Orange Business Services Consultant to Cardiac Remote Monitoring division of pacemaker and defibrillator manufacturer Sorin Group based in Clamart, France.  Scope is inclusive of EU Privacy Directive, HIPAA, and FDA, FTC regulations governing protected health information for 30K patients in the USA and 5 EU countries. The World Communications Association acknowledged this solution by naming Orange & Sorin together as the change-makers of the year in 2009 for the impact that this solutions has in telemedicine. http://www.sorin-crm.com/uploads/Media/wcabestchangemakeren.pdf

 

WACHOVIA: 2 Years, 06/2006 to 06/2008: VP, Wachovia Corporate Investment Bank

CTO Group, Head of Architecture & Innovation, http://wachovia.com/corp_inst

Ryan received the SC Magazine 2008 Award for building and leading the "Best Security Team" for leveraging security for competitive differentiation and business process transformation. 

 

As the lead SOA and Security IT Architect for Utility and Grid Computing for the technology division of Wachovia Corporate and Investment Banking, Ryan directly managed 8 VP level IT professionals and led a team of over 50 developers and architects. He ran the CIB Innovation Lab & drove the SOA architecture strategy and the framework design for mass-customized and rapidly consumable, secure, and best of breed virtualized server runtime solutions that integrate high performance computing grids with thin and thick clients, and rich internet application (RIA) environments via the CIB Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Ryan designed and implemented solutions for each CIB business line, including Global Capital Markets (Equities, FX, Structured Products, Credit Lending, and Vertical Mortgage Integration), CIB International (LoCs, DDA, IFTs/SWIFT), Credit Risk and Treasury Services.

A notable project that combined DataSynapse with DataPower and Coherence technology was the Credit Risk Potential Future Exposures grid, which was completed 6 months ahead of schedule with $1.5M in savings as a result of an optimized architecture that reduced the processing time of the job from 17 hours to 20 minutes across a rack of 60 dense computing blades. Ryan's work to redesign the DMZ architecture has resulted in fewer network hops and physical devices in the DMZ, and integrated innovative solutions for web services XML firewalls as well as for web application reverse proxy authentication, authorization, and audit logging. Ryan also designed and implemented an Enterprise Service Bus architecture to perform XSLT based XML transformations and web services to FTP, MQ and Tibco EMS integration.

 

IBM: 12 Years, 02/1994 to 06/2006, International Business Machines, Corp. http://www.ibm.com/us/

11/2005 to 06/2006: Band 10, IBM Global Services / BTO SOA Asset Lab, Austin, TX

Common Service Delivery Platform / Chief Delivery & Infrastructure Security Solution Architect

Ryan led a team of developers to create a multi-tenant multi-application federated SSO Authentication and Access Management solution for a Portal SOA infrastructure.  Ryan led the creation BTO Asset Lab development environment that created the Common Services Delivery Platform (CSDP) for outsourced business process applications, such as HR portals and Enterprise Content Management. 

 

04/2004 to 11/2005: Band 10, IBM Software Group / Tivoli Software, Austin, TX

WW Tivoli & Business Consulting Services Alliance Manager / Business Development Executive

Ryan drove the alliance between Tivoli and IBM Business Consulting Services (BCS), resulting in over $100M in Tivoli software revenue influenced by BCS. As a voting SDLC PDT member, ensured that the industry specific client requirements were advocated for in new Tivoli products. Launched new SAP and Industrial Sector growth plays for Tivoli Automation with ThinkDynamics Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator, and Tivoli Security Solutions.   Ryan led a team to automate the BCS SAP Demo Center with Tivoli Provisioning Manager reducing BCS expenses from $3.5M/year, to $2M saving $1.5M annually while providing BCS with a proof point to relate Tivoli Automation software to business value in SAP deals. 

 

03/2003 to 04/2004: Band 9, IBM Global Services / Grid EBO, Austin, TX

WW Grid Computing Services Senior IT Architect / IBM Grid Computing Community Leader

Grid Innovation Workshop Lead Architect for Discover Card, and the EPA. Exceeded the IBM Grid EBO Revenue target of $50M WW in 2003 and drove a pipeline of $200M in 2004 as the leader of the WW IBM Global Services Grid Community of Practice. As the lead instructor and author of the IBM Grid Computing Boot Camp & Education Curriculum, educated over 300 people, and grew the community to over 2000 people WW and created the IBM Grid Computing University.

 

10/2000 to 03/2003: Band 9, IBM Global Services, Integrated Technology Services, NY & Boston

Senior Consultant / Certified IT Architect -- Client Facing Lead Architect

Led enterprise architecture strategy and infrastructure design and implementation projects for IBM's enterprise clients, such as Westpac Bank Australia, New York City Department of Education, IMS Health, Panasonic, and PricewaterhouseCoopers driving green revenue and client satisfaction for IBM and consistent utilization above 95% -- driving over $50M in ITS services revenue. Created four new IGS security service offerings based on VeriSign PKI and TAM integration. Lead IT Integration Architect for the New York State Department of Labor to create an unemployment insurance website https://ui.labor.state.ny.us using Websphere MQ middleware integration on IBM xSeries servers to a S/390 mainframe via CICS.

 

01/1998 to 10/2000: Band 8, IBM Global Services, Network Services, Somers, NY

IT Architect & Application Developer / Team Leader -- Principal Certified Lotus Professional

Ryan developed Domino Gauge for Service Level Agreement reporting, that was published in 2002 to the IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin. www.priorartdatabase.com/IPCOM/000016328 
Ryan designed mass-customized Lotus Domino mail, groupware, and web server solutions for over 70 commercial IBM Universal Server Farm IBM Workgroup Services clients such as Citibank, Eli Lilly, Ernst & Young, Intralinks, and Novus.

 

02/1994 to 01/1998: Band 7, IBM Global Services, Distributed Systems Management, RTP, NC

IT Specialist -- Network Infrastructure Administrator & Lotus Domino Application Developer

Ryan developed an ISO 9001 Compliant Lotus Domino Knowledge Management System used by the IBM Global Account Customer Care Centers WW for closed loop problem resolution. 

IT Specialist -- Distributed Systems Management Level 2 CRM & AIX System Administrator

 

 

IBM Certifications:

10/2003: IBM Certified Grid Computing Technical Specialist

09/2002: IBM Certified IT Integration Architect (http://opengroup.org/certification/#howitac)

05/1999: IBM Principal Certified Lotus Professional (PCLP) Web Architecture & Application Development

 

IBM Education:

IBM Professional Consulting IT Architect & Business Development Education:

IBM Industrial & Financial Services Sector Solution Development and Enterprise Middleware Integration

Mandel Executive Communications and Presentations Course

Architectural Thinking & IBM Global Services Methodology

Enterprise Architecture

Information Technology Security & Privacy Methodology & Ethical Hacking

Professional Consulting Workshop Methodology

Rapid Infrastructure Design Methodology

Web Services for Enterprise Application Integration

 

Community Activity:

2007: Charlotte NoDa Arts District Neighborhood Association, Board Member, Vision Team Leader

http://www.noda.org/

2006: Volunteer CTO for Thoughtful House http://www.thoughtfulhouse.org

Thoughtful House is fighting to recover children with developmental disorders such as autism.

 

Interests:  Family, Kayaking, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Math, Physics, Chess, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Ontology