Ryan Follmer
Senior Director Information Technology
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Follmer is a seasoned IT leader with over 20 years of experience who currently serves as Senior Director of Information Technology, blending infrastructure, applications, security, and project management to align IT with business goals. He has a consistent record of driving cost savings, operational efficiencies, and resilience—examples include migrating organizations to remote work, implementing redundant backplanes and warm-site DR, and delivering 30%+ reductions in operational spend. Comfortable moving between individual contributor and executive roles, he introduced PMO practices, GitLab-driven lifecycles, and Lean/Six Sigma principles to improve project delivery and standardize applications. He’s managed federal compliance and served as System Security Owner for on-prem USG systems while leading web redevelopment, BI, and analytics efforts for research organizations. Known for mentoring and building high-performing teams, he combines tactical delivery (patching, asset management, ticketing) with strategic planning for mergers, new site setups, and lifecycle governance. Based in Minneapolis–St. Paul, he pairs hands-on technical depth with a knack for translating complex IT work into measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at University of PhoenixUndergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Studies at Indiana University South Bend
Github Skills (27)
launchdarkly10
dotnet9
server-sent-events9
salesforce-api9
feature-flags9
csharp9
sfdx9
eventsource8
salesforce8
salesforce-developers8
salesforcedx8
thread-safety7
azure-function-app7
continuous-integration7
salesforce-devops7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ryanfollmer/UpsertRecordsFlowAction
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Apex Flow Action to Upsert Records
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
upsertflow-actionsalesforce
launchdarkly/dotnet-eventsource
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Server-sent events (SSE) client implementation for .NET
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 months
dotnetserver-sent-eventseventsourcecsharpc-sharp
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