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<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: medium11pt; font-family: tahomaArial; color: rgb(102, geneva102, sans102); font-weight: 700; vertical-serifalign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ryan graduated from the University of Oklahoma with his masters in Computer Science in May 2015. During his 5 years, he worked on consulting roles with local companies spanning industries including medical information, book publishing, weather analytics and trucking startup. For his Serving as UIF project, Ryan spent time connecting multiple major colleges at Oklahoma resulting in the [httpSince:<//www.ou.edu/innovationhub/ Innovation Hub at OU]span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, a 25102,000 square foot 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space for experimentation. The space was completed in Fall 2016, and now impacts students across all mahors at OU.: pre-wrap;">Spring 2014</span></span>
<brspan id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School: </span><span style="font-size: medium11pt; font-family: tahomaArial; color: rgb(102, geneva102, sans102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">Ryan recently took on a new job as the head of inclusive design in Microsoft Office working to bring a culture University of inclusivity to every designerOklahoma, engineer and PM across Office. You can read more about it [https:Computer Science<//medium.com/@RyanPhillips10/something-new-128ecdbd45a6#.3yw40q19d here]!span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What she does now: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneur in Residence at Sapphire Ventures/SAP.iO</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What that means: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Work Identify strategic areas for potential investment, specifically in the B2B space, and help porfolio companies grow.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: medium11pt; font-family: tahomaArial; color: rgb(102, geneva102, sans102); font-weight: 700; vertical-serifalign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Previously at MicrosoftContact him about: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, he worked on developing the engineering systems that allowed Microsoft Office to scale to billion's of users in addition to supporting Microsoft's internal 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inclusive Design; creative spaces and/or makerspaces; technology strategy (startup ecosystem. Some of the solutions he developed allowed internal startups to grow at a 10x rate from ~100,000 users to over 1 million users!or large company); Photography + videography;</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hey There - My name is Ryan Phillips and I currently work at a VC fund and venture studio. My role there consists of two things, (1) helping teams launch their ideas and (2) identifying promising areas of interest to invest in. While i've only been working here for about two months, I love it so far!</span></span>
<span><span style="font-size: medium11pt; font-family: tahomaArial; color: rgb(0, geneva0, sans0); vertical-align: baseline; white-serifspace: pre-wrap;">Feel free Previously, I worked at Microsoft as a Culture Engineer! What does that mean? Basically, I try to reach shift the culture to be more inclusive including everything from our products, our day-to-day operations, and everything in between! Check out at Ryphil@microsoft.com and follow him on an example of this that recently launched, the [https://mediumnews.microsoft.com/@RyanPhillips10 Mediumstories/xbox-adaptive-controller/ Xbox Adaptive Controller]! .</span></span>
<span id= Related Links "docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I graduated from the University of Oklahoma in summer 2015 with my masters in Computer Science.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">During my time at OU, I worked in a consulting role with many Oklahoma-based startups in industries such as robotic surgery, book publishing, and vaccination development. My UIF project connected groups from across campus to build the [https://youtu.be/EBBbt1c_Cyw Innovation Hub at OU], a multi-disciplinary space that allows students to experiment with projects regardless of what major they are. We began work in early 2014, broke ground in late 2015, and spring 2017 welcomed the first students to the space!</span>
'''University of Oklahoma'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond work, I LOVE photography (check it out [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ryan-phillips/ here]), and have recently been experimenting with drone videography - check out my latest prototype [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJsOyy7TnF8 here]!</span></span>
[[University of Oklahoma Student Priorities|University of Oklahoma Student Priorities]]<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m happy to talk to anyone about anything, and I feel like I can help the most with students working on projects based on inclusion, creative spaces, and/or technology (CS, hardware, strategy, etc)!</span></span>
University Innovation Fellows<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks :) </span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ryan</span></span>
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[[Holly Crawford|Holly Crawford]]=<span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span>Great Links</span></span>=
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