Ryan’s passion for Technology is as a means to unleash creative endeavors. He is an open source developer, community evangelist and trend spotter who harnesses his experience in project management, web applications, and interactive design to build markets for businesses, and users for web sites. Ryan’s days are spent developing products and designing creative solutions for clients using Drupal, answering questions for Drupal users, building a regional network of creative individuals (Florida Creatives) with practical ambitions, designing web pages and application back-ends, and sharing his knowledge of Drupal as a tool with businesses and individuals.

Ryan has implemented and maintained high-traffic websites such as PopSci.com using Drupal 5 and 6, Wordpress, Zend Framework and Web Services, developed new sites with editorial workflows and user-generated content, consulted on Drupal best practices for custom module development, source control management, eCommerce and website administration. He tutors, consults and runs training programs for Drupal, PHP, Podcasting and Social Media and originally created the DrupalEasy.com blog.