Hi, I'm Ryan
My goal is to become a National Championship winning soccer coach at the collegiate level.
I believe it is important to have goals that will make you become the best vesion of your future self. I'm currently looking for an opportunity in the college level to learn and grow under a mentor while providing him or her value as an Assistant Coach or Director of Operations. If you'd like to see my preferred playing style you can view my game model here.
In the past
I've helped build The Bigbie Method where we teach people to create connection through their communication, even in times of conflict, been the 6th hire and Head of Education for one of the fastest growing edtech companies Teachable - which was acquired by Hotmart for $250 Million, worked and consulted with best-selling authors, Y-Combinator startups and Fortune 500 businesses to create courses, worked with and trained athletes from youth to the college and professional levels, helped raise $300,000+ for Sarcoma cancer research with a group of friends running across the US, operated bars and nightclubs, and produced some courses of my own courses that have been taken by over 200,000 students worldwide.
I've been lucky enough to work with...
This site is a collection of my past work, projects and talks I've done. Sometimes I write on Medium about whatever gets me excited, and you can learn html and css from me here for free.
A, Somewhat, Quick Work Bio
Main Street Entertainment and Iconic Corners
While taking a hiatus from the Tech and Startup Industry I tested how I could bring my tech background into brick and mortar businesses and went back to my roots in the Food and Beverage and Hospitality industries. Mainstreet Entertainment and Iconic Corners Management groups have a portfolio of 3 restaurants and nightlife venues in Tallahassee, FL. My main focus was with Potbelly's. In the 16 months I was there we increased revenue from previous years 66%, hired over 100 people, brought in a permanent food vendor, created automated systems to make the place easier to run, been awarded one of the top 8 college bars in the US by Barstool, and brought in such big name acts as Steve Aoki, Chase Rice, and YBN Cordae, among others.
Santa Stumble
During my time at MSE and IC I brought together 3 of Tallahassee's most iconic venues and multiple promotional groups to create this annual December bar crawl to raise money for Salvation Army's Angel Tree Program. In 2019, we raised over $20,000, 100% of the proceeds provided gifts for hundreds of kids in need through out the Big Bend area.
Titus Human Performance
Headed up the redesign of the UI/UX for the SPEAR system, a human and economic performance optimization (HEPO) platform that large programs, including the entire SOCOM use. At it's core it tracks different outputs/inputs for an individual - what they eat, workouts, blood reports, dna reports, sleep patterns, performance tests, cognitive tests, wearable tech, injuries - and uses AI and Machine Learning to find causation and correlation and determine ultimately what it takes for each individual to keep them performing at their best. Also was fortunate enough to learn from professional and Olympic coaches and train local athletes.
Bloom Intelligence
A brick and mortar analytics business. They use WiFi in businesses to track key metrics of customers' behavior patterns that were previously only available to e-commerce companies. I was in charge of creating an automated system for the delivery and install of our WiFi equipment, client relationships and onboarding new clients, creating an automated onboarding application that they can revisit, and redesigning the UI/UX of the WiFi registration page for our clients' customers.
Teachable
An online education startup that was acquired by Hotmart in March 2020 for around $250 million according to TechCrunch. I was one of the first 6 hired employees. My responsibilities included running the webinars for both acquiring and training new customers, reaching out to potential high value clients and creating courses with them, and creating courses to teach people how to be successful teaching online.
Maker-Based Education
I founded Maker-Based Education in 2014 to teach people how to build websites in less than 20 hours. The courses have become best-sellers on Udemy and instituded as curriculum in schools across North Florida. Over 200,000 people have taken my courses on HTML and CSS with an average 5 star review at time of the last update.
One Million Lines
While working on Maker-Based Education we created One Million Lines to challenge ourselves and the Leon County School System to get coding education into the curriculum and have their students write over 1 million lines of code. The movement lead to our curriculum being taught in various schools through the Big Bend area.
Miles 2 Give
Founded by Landon Cooper, Miles 2 Give was a 3 man team that ran from San Francisco to Ocean City, MD and raised over $206,000 for Sarcoma Cancer research and awareness. I was in charge of all e-commerce and online operations, setting up partnerships, meetups and fundraising events, creating apparel, and running with them for the last quarter of the trip. This is the project I'm most grateful and proud to be a part. Not really because of the money, but because of the impact we had and the relationships we formed.
I also..
am a former D1 Soccer Player, have been a whitewater river guide, and have worked in the Hospitality and Food and Beverage industry for 20 years.Courses I've Created
A collection of courses I created to teach people different coding languages in less than a month. Taught online and in schools.
Maker-Based Education
A course I created with Charlie Hoehn to teach people how to find and get the job they want with people they previously didn't know.
Land A Job You Love
A course I created with best-selling author Neil Pasricha as a complement to his book The Happiness Equation.
The Habit Of Seeing Awesome
I worked with the Money Coach team to redesign their site and build a growth plan to funnel their subscribers into their courses.
Money Coach University
To see a detailed timeline of my work experience click here.
Here's what people have said about my courses...
And some past talks I've given...
Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. I talked at Startup Grind about my experience as an entrepreneur and the direction I saw online education going.
Startup Grind
In 2015 I taught a week-long course to educators from across California in Fresno about how to effectively teach their students HTML and CSS. This is a clip from that week-long session.
Summer Web Development Bootcamp
New Rules aims at teaching young-professionals and athletes to be successful in the real world. Here are the slides from one of the two classes I taught on learning how to learn and how to create opportunies with people.
New Rules
Thanks for stopping by. If you enjoy my work and are looking to get ahold of me you can do that here.
Ryan