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<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">Ryan graduated from the University of Oklahoma with his masters in Computer Science in May 2015. During his 5 years, he worked on many projects with local companies include medical information tracking, book publishing, including raising $55k for a weather analytics startup. For his UIF project, Ryan spent time connecting multiple major colleges at Oklahoma resulting in the [http://www.ou.edu/innovationhub/ Innovation Hub at OU], a 25,000 square foot space for experimentation. The space will open in March 2016.<br/><br/>Ryan now works at Microsoft as a Program Manager on Office developing the engineering systems to scale technologies to billion's of users in addition to supporting Microsoft's internal startup ecosystem. Recently, Ryan brought multiple internal groups together to allow startups to translate their application to any of the supported 130 languages for free, leading to multiple apps growing at a 10x rate.</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">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 UIF project, Ryan spent time connecting multiple major colleges at Oklahoma resulting in the [http://www.ou.edu/innovationhub/ Innovation Hub at OU], a 25,000 square foot space for experimentation. The space was completed in Fall 2016, and now impacts students across all mahors at OU.<br/></span>
  
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;"><br/>Ryan recently took on a new job as the head of inclusive design in Microsoft Office working to bring a culture of inclusivity to every designer, engineer and PM across Office. You can read more about it [https://medium.com/@RyanPhillips10/something-new-128ecdbd45a6#.3yw40q19d here]!</span>
  
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">Feel free to reach out at Ryphil@microsoft.com!&nbsp;</span>
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">Previously at Microsoft, he worked on developing the engineering systems to scale technologies to billion's of users in addition to supporting Microsoft's internal startup ecosystem. Some of the solutions he developed allowed startups to grow at a 10x rate from ~100,000 users to over 1 million users!</span>
  
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;">Feel free to reach out at Ryphil@microsoft.com and follow him on [https://medium.com/@RyanPhillips10 Medium]!&nbsp;</span>
  
 
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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 UIF project, Ryan spent time connecting multiple major colleges at Oklahoma resulting in the Innovation Hub at OU, a 25,000 square foot space for experimentation. The space was completed in Fall 2016, and now impacts students across all mahors at OU.


Ryan recently took on a new job as the head of inclusive design in Microsoft Office working to bring a culture of inclusivity to every designer, engineer and PM across Office. You can read more about it here!

Previously at Microsoft, he worked on developing the engineering systems to scale technologies to billion's of users in addition to supporting Microsoft's internal startup ecosystem. Some of the solutions he developed allowed startups to grow at a 10x rate from ~100,000 users to over 1 million users!


Feel free to reach out at Ryphil@microsoft.com and follow him on Medium

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