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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-serifweight: 700; vertical-align: 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 many projects with local companies include medical information tracking, book publishing, including raising $55k for a weather analytics 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 will open in March 2016.<br/: pre-wrap;">Spring 2014<br/span>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>

<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-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">Feel free to reach out at Ryphil@microsoftWhat 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.com!&nbsp;</span></span>

'''University <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 Oklahoma''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: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Previously, I worked at Microsoft as a Culture Engineer! What does that mean? Basically, I try to shift the culture to be more inclusive including everything from our products, our day-to-day operations, and everything in between! Check out an example of this that recently launched, the [[University of Oklahoma Student Priorities|University of Oklahoma Student Priorities]https://news.microsoft.com/stories/xbox-adaptive-controller/ Xbox Adaptive Controller].</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 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 FellowsHub 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>

Spring 2016<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>

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