Ryan serves a senior scientist and software engineer with Zepheira. Formerly, a researcher for The SIMILE Project, a joint research project between the W3C, MIT Computer Science and Artiļ¬cial Intelligence Lab, and MIT Libraries and an outgrowth of the DSpace project. Primarily involved in architecting and developing a large scale, real world Semantic Web application and supporting tools in the library domain, primarily using Java and AJAX. Also involved speaking at conferences, authoring papers, collaborating with other research institutions, and assisting in the management and administration of an open source software project.
Ryan is a member of the Decentralized Information Group at MIT CSAIL. He contributed significantly to the development effort and administration for a set of W3C Semantic Web projects. He leveraged Semantic Web technology for W3C internal applications, using historical and current content. As a a Research Assistant at MIT, he worked with CSAIL researchers and other W3C staff to formulate a vocabulary for describing the negotiation of personal data privacy in the Semantic Web. Vocabulary written in RDF, implementation of vocabulary in Python. Ryan is expert in development of systems designed and written in Java, PostgreSQL, Apache web-related frameworks, XHTML and CSS.