[[File:RPP Profile Pic.jpg|thumb|RPP Profile Pic.jpg]]<span style="font-size:large;">Ryan Phillips</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;">Serving as UIF Since:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spring 2014</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;">School: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Oklahoma, Computer Science</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:tahomaArial; color: rgb(102,geneva102,sans102); font-weight: 700; vertical-serifalign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What she does now: </span><span style="font-size:medium11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ryan is a Computer Science major with a minor Entrepreneur in Mathematics 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 University of OklahomaB2B space, and help porfolio companies grow. He brings in experience from 3 semesters of developing technologies </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;">Contact him about: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inclusive Design; creative spaces and/or makerspaces; technology strategy (startup or large company); Photography + videography;</span></span> ---- <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 the Center for the Creation a VC fund and venture studio. My role there consists of Economic Wealth two things, (1) helping teams launch their ideas and (CCEW2) identifying promising areas of interest to invest in fields ranging from book publishing to patient data monitoring. During his semester While i've only been working here for about two months, I love it so far!</span></span> <span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Previously, I worked at Microsoft as a team leadCulture Engineer! What does that mean? Basically, he led 9 interdisciplinary students through a process of ideationI try to shift the culture to be more inclusive including everything from our products, market validationour day-to-day operations, and software development to develop everything in between! Check out an example of this that recently launched, the beta version of SIREN[https://news.microsoft.com/stories/xbox-adaptive-controller/ Xbox Adaptive Controller]. SIREN is a weather analysis application that automates </span></span> <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 graduated from the analysis and notification University of hazardous weather to the trucking industryOklahoma 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 the 2 monthsmy time at OU, the team developed I worked in a proprietary algorithm consulting role with help many Oklahoma-based startups in industries such as robotic surgery, book publishing, and vaccination development. My UIF project connected groups from meteorologists across campus to build the [https://youtu.be/EBBbt1c_Cyw Innovation Hub at the National Weather Center and developed the webOU], a multi-based application disciplinary space that allows students to experiment with CCEW alumni working in Google Mapsprojects regardless of what major they are. We are currently raising funding to launch this startup began work in August of early 2014. As an intern at Garmin during , broke ground in late 2015, and spring 2017 welcomed the first students to the summer of 2013space!</span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, his 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyond work on the next, 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> <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-generation of inspace: pre-dash navigation prepared Ryan wrap;">I’m happy to talk to bring a large-scale software project from ideation through production. During anyone about anything, and I feel like I can help the summer of 2014, Ryan will be an intern at Microsoft most with students working on the webprojects based on inclusion, creative spaces, and/or technology (CS, hardware, strategy, etc)!</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-327e880a-acba-1ce3-5501-2db1e89dffa2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-based version of Microsoft Officefamily: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, Office365.0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks :) </span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(500, 500, 500); linevertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ryan</span></span> ---- =<span style="font-heightsize: 20pxxx-large;"><span>Great Links</span></span>= <span style="font-size:medium;"><span>These are some of my favorite and most helpful things on the internet :)</span></span> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span>[http://startupclass.samaltman.com/lists/readings/ How To Start a Startup] </span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">[http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html <span></span>NeuraLink article on WaitButWhy] </span>*[https://www.feld.com/ <span style="font-size:medium;">Feld Thoughts</span>]*[https://stratechery.com/ <span style="font-size:medium;">Stratechary</span>]