Ryan is coming to Educational Media Technologies after spending four years as content manager, technical writer, social media manager and webinar host at a local internet hosting provider. He has been an adjunct instructor in the Communications academic area since 2011, and will continue teaching classes at NMC. Prior to that he taught English at the high school level for 8 years in Colorado. Raised in Michigan, Ryan attended Western Michigan University as an undergrad and received his graduate degree from the University of Denver. He has two little daughters and for fun he enjoys diagramming sentences with his wife Sarah, who is an English teacher in the TBAISD.