Ryan Pfister

Current

• Consultant at IBM

Past

• Reporter at Reading Eagle Company
• Reporter, Web Editor, Columnist at The Daily Collegian
• Analyst at Merrill Lynch

• Application Developer at Old Lane

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Education

• Pennsylvania State University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Ryan Pfister’s Summary

Penn State graduate with an outstanding academic record and a breadth of experience in information technology, economics and journalism. Has worked in both application development and management roles for financial services and media companies.

Ryan Pfister’s Specialties:

.NET programming (C#, VB, ASP.NET), Java, HTML, Ruby. Blogging software, wiki and content management system implementation and maintenance.

Ryan Pfister’s Experience

• Consultant

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Working in the customer relationship management practice for government clients.

• Reporter

  Reading Eagle Company

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  May 2009 — August 2009 (4 months)

  Wrote over 30 stories on a variety of topics at this 64,000 daily circulation newspaper. Also assisted in processing obituaries.

• Reporter, Web Editor, Columnist

  The Daily Collegian

  (Newspapers industry)

  September 2005 — May 2009 (3 years 9 months)

  Covered Penn State administration, student government and cops and courts. As Web editor, managed transition to a new Web publishing system, helped develop the paper's first podcasts and videos and launched a wiki that reporters and editors use to share information. Currently writing a weekly opinion column.

• Analyst

  Merrill Lynch

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Financial Services industry)

  May 2008 — September 2008 (5 months)

  Streamlined software build process; Developed new applications and added new features to existing applications in C# and VBA.

• Application Developer

  Old Lane

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

  May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

  Worked directly with traders to develop a Java and Oracle-based data acquisition system that gathers data from over 20 different sources using a variety of interfaces. Also, streamlined end-of-day accounting by linking Excel spreadsheets directly to the company’s trade database.

Ryan Pfister’s Education

• Pennsylvania State University

  2005 — 2009

Additional Information

Ryan Pfister’s Interests:

Programming, running, camping, hiking

Ryan Pfister’s Groups:

The Daily Collegian
Penn State Mock Trial Association

•    Penn State IST Alumni Society

Ryan Pfister’s Honors:

• Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America
• High School Valedictorian
• Recipient of the Damon M. Chappie Scholarship for Investigative Journalism
• Co-winner of the second-place Keystone Award for ongoing news coverage
• Recipient of the President’s Freshman Award and President Sparks Award for
outstanding grade-point average

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