Ryan is a two-time Microsoft MVP award winner and owner of Sonata Cove Software with over eight years of software architecture and development experience. Working with big-name clients such as Discovery Channel, AOL, Toyota, and the National Academy of Sciences, Ryan has helped teams deliver award-winning applications that drive business processes, site traffic,  and profit.   Currently the Senior Software Engineer at Aerus, LLC, and consulting with a number of other small businesses.  Ryan puts his experience and creativity to work to build amazing solutions for the web, desktop and mobile devices. Ryan has a B.S. in Computer Science from UVA-Wise and a M.S. in Software Engineering from George Mason University.