Ryan is a native Utahn with a BS in Telecommunications Administration Weber State University, CISSP, CEH, etc. He has worked as a federal contractor for [REDACTED] for [REDACTED] period of time working on the CLASSIFIED [REDACTED] initiative. After that he worked for a large healthcare corporation and helped build their information security program. After having had enough of giant corporate culture, he shifted his focus to green-fielding security programs for several small to midsize startup companies in and around Silicon Slopes. He is currently the Director of Security Operations and Engineering at Pluralsight. He is a natural introvert (that doesn't mean shy, he just prefers to be alone) and tinkerer and old-time gamer. When recovering from blue-teaming and having his eyes bleed from reviewing security logs, he enjoys spending time with his wife of 20 years and 2 kids, $SecurityQuestion1 and $SecurityQuestion2