Interaction Architect
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Volunteer at Americans for Safe Access
- Peripheral Associate at ACM SIGGRAPH San Francisco
- Vice President / Founder at VonGogo Foundation
- Interactive Systems Architect at Independent
- Past
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- Plonemaster, Reporter at ACM SIGGRAPH
- Interactive Systems Architect at Association for Computing Machinery
- Support Representative at RimuHosting.com
- Software Archaeologist at Rackspace Managed Hosting
- Developer Relations Engineer, Lead Instructor at TurboLinux, inc.
- Author at IDG Books
- Education
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- City College of San Francisco
- Art Institute of California - San Francisco
- Austin Community College
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Justin Ryan’s Summary
I am experienced in architecting interactive applications, patterns-driven application design, and large scale deployments, especially on GNU/Linux servers. I also have a great deal of experience with general application and platform interoperability solutions, and have been awarded for my dedication to service.
Justin Ryan’s Specialties:
Interactive Experience, Polygons 'n Pixels, Python Programming, Hypertext, Kernel Hacking, Education.
Justin Ryan’s Experience
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Volunteer
Americans for Safe Access
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; ASA; Political Organization industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
I help with technology and mobilization of court support and rallies, as well as participating in the leadership of the San Francisco chapter of Americans for Safe Access, the nation’s largest organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research.
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Peripheral Associate
ACM SIGGRAPH San Francisco
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
I'm available in any way that can be helpful to the leadership and membership of ACM SIGGRAPH San Francisco to help ensure that our local chapter experience is commensurate with the weight of international membership and conference attendance in the SF Bay Area.
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Vice President / Founder
VonGogo Foundation
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Fund-Raising industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years)
The VonGogo Foundation is an artist collective that some friends and I started in order to promote our own ideas about artistic expression, and to provide support for other folks struggling with the creative establishment, especially artist in residence opportunites.
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Interactive Systems Architect
Independent
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Think Tanks industry)
October 2002 — Present (6 years 10 months)
I wield mastery over a wide range of technologies with a marked focus on large-scale distributed systems, automation, and autonomous systems like the web. My clientele include international non-profit organizations and all sizes of private businesses.
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Plonemaster, Reporter
ACM SIGGRAPH
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; International Trade and Development industry)
February 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 5 months)
As a volunteer and consultant, I am responsible for selecting, designing, and deploying technology solutions for siggraph.org, a website serving The International Organization dedicated to Generation and Dissemination of Information on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. At our annual conference, I provide leadership and act as an editor for a student journalism program which draws more web traffic in a few months than all of our other sites combined, all year.
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Interactive Systems Architect
Association for Computing Machinery
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Think Tanks industry)
February 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 2 months)
I worked as a consultant with the IS team for the ACM, "The First Society in Computing!", who prides itself on Advancing Computing as a Science and a Profession, in order to build the next generation of its' web portal, a project whose goal is .. rather undefined after two years or more of development. :/
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Support Representative
RimuHosting.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
On behalf of RimuHosting, I enjoyed providing "Awesome Support" for "Mighty Linux Servers", from the comfort of my home. :)
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Software Archaeologist
Rackspace Managed Hosting
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; RACK; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 4 months)
At Rackspace, I developed a reputation as a high performer by wearing new organizational pathways. In order to manage the deployment and support of a 10,000+ device network infrastructure, our application underwent two full software development lifecycles before I joined the team, and embodied nearly four different application architectures which did not integrate well, and which each had their own flavor of problems both in design and in production performance and scalability. After six to nine months on this team, my twofold goal became very clear:
* To embody the satisfaction of the need to change rapidly in the most fragile component of the system.
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* To research distributed application architecture which would provide a clean object oriented architecture within which to develop while being able to scale tenfold at any time given availability of computing resources. -
Developer Relations Engineer, Lead Instructor
TurboLinux, inc.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; TLNX; Computer Software industry)
September 1997 — December 2000 (3 years 4 months)
I started working at TurboLinux as a High-School Sophomore, providing support for a highly technical international base of operating-system software customers and led or was at the tip of the sword in many initiatives such as our public beta program and the establishment of our support and education departments, the latter of which was the only group within the company to ever be independently profitable. I was laid off twice, worked a short stint for a subcontractor during the development of the education program, and eventually saw the downfall of the company's American operation after a failed merger due to an information leak in upper management which amounted to an SEC violation. I learned a lot about technology and about people, professional commitments, and paperwork during my time at TL.
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Author
IDG Books
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Justin Ryan’s Education
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City College of San Francisco
Bachelor of Arts , Mathematics , 2007 — 2007
- Activities and Societies:
- ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI, VonGogo Foundation
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Art Institute of California - San Francisco
Visual / Game Programming, Media Arts & Animation 2005 — 2005
I accomplished my goal, at least for a limited time, of joining an educationally focused peer community, even if the school's administration and faculty, in many cases, appeared to outwardly view the majority of their student body as vagrants. ;)
- Activities and Societies:
- ACM SIGGRAPH Student Chapter Officer, Visual / Game Programming Club
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Austin Community College
Computer Science 2001 — 2002
I made an effort to study Computer Science here, during a period where I had been laid-off, but found that they didn't offer much related to this area of study that I hadn't already taken as Advanced Placement courses in High School.
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Justin Ryan’s Interests:
sociology, philosophy, cartoons, programming, euclidean space.
Justin Ryan’s Honors:
Presidential Academic Fitness Award
Recognized for "Heroic On-Call Support" for a period of 18 months
Justin Ryan’s Contact Settings
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