I´m a geek with around fifteen years interest and experience in internet culture under my belt - happily though, I´m still in my twenties and not nearly as old as that makes me sound!

I´m currently studying for an MSc in Cognitive Computing at Goldsmith´s University in London, England.  What I plan to do after that is still up in the air for now, but I´m very tempted to pursue a PhD or perhaps get a "real" job that will enable me to pursue my interest in Artificial Intelligence and in particular the application of technology.

Prior to this, I´ve been a headhunter, building relationships with some very successful professionals in IT and mainly working at top investment banks, hedge funds and towards the end of my time as a headhunter, more in the security and defense industries.  I´m very proud to call some of these people good friends, and will always be grateful for the skills I gained during this time, not to mention the perspective and insight into the economy.

Headhunter doesn´t sound too geeky does it - however during this time I was also setting myself up to begin freelancing in web design and building programs for people.  You´ll be able to see some examples in the Portfolio section on this site.  I find myself mostly using PHP, XHTML, CSS, and Flex/Flash Actionscript 3, Server-Side Actionscript and Flash Media Server along with MySQL.  It pays some of the bills at least .

If you´re interested in more information, I´ve included the below until I can be motivated to write more about myself:

Brief Bio

Name: Ryan

Education: MSc Cognitive Computing (Currently studying); BSc Psychology and Business;

Technical Skills

Languages:  PHP, ActionScript 3.0, XHTML/Markup, CSS, JS, MySQL, Curl, Processing, Java

Environments:  Windows SBS 2003-2008, Exchange Administration, MS SQL Server Administration, Networking and security, Active Directory. Windows OS 3.x-7 including Vista.  Ubuntu 8.x to present. 

Software:  FlexBuilder 4, Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Office 2007 to macro and visual basic level, NotePad++, TheGimp, MatLab, SPSS, Blender, 3DS Max.

Personal Interests

Authors:  Stephen Donaldson, Arthur C Clark, Jospeh Conrad, many more - I´ll keep adding to this.

Music: Rock, Metal, Industrial, EBM, Electronica, 8-bit, Japanese rock/metal, some trance