Hi, I’m Ryan.

My focus is Pine Works, where I’m a partner. I work on technical strategy, architecture, and platform planning, helping teams connect the decisions they make today with the systems they need to maintain tomorrow.

I’ve worked with clients like Stanford University, Ben & Jerry’s, and Papa John’s, guiding teams through re-platforms, content management system migrations, and digital transformations.

Leadership, delivery, and sharing experience.

Prior to Pine Works, I led technology at a national higher-ed organization, served as VP Technology at Happy Cog, and founded CraftQuest, an online learning platform for developers building with Craft CMS and modern web development tools. CraftQuest has been running since 2018 as a bootstrapped, profitable subscription training platform serving web developers across the world.

I started my technology education work as the author of two books: The Business Podcasting Book (Focal Press, 2007) and ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010).

As part of my technology training work, I created and taught technical courses to internal teams at NASA, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, University of Chicago, and UMass Boston.

I received a Certificate for German as Foreign Language from Goethe-Institut e.V., a B.S. in German Studies from Middle Tennessee State University and an M.A. in German Studies from the great University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Go Heels.

Oh, and I’m a runner.

I started running in 2015. Since then, I’ve run everything from 5ks and half marathons to marathons and 50ks. Running is a large part of my identity at this point. I hope I have many, many years of running ahead of me.

When I’m not at the keyboard or out running, there’s a good chance I’m listening to a record. After a year of collecting jazz, I’m spending 2026 looking for albums from 1975—the year I was born.