Ryan Straits
Project Manager at Shick Esteve
Lone Jack, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Straits is a seasoned project manager with 11 years of focused experience delivering capital and R&D projects across food, beverage, confectionery, and marine battery systems. He has led multi-disciplined, distributed engineering teams of 20+ members and managed portfolios exceeding $18M, with direct responsibility for budgets, schedules, and on-site startups. His background in mechanical engineering technology and early hands-on roles (design engineer, product line engineer) gives him deep technical fluency in mechanical, controls, and packaging systems. Ryan excels at coordinating cross-functional stakeholders—from procurement and manufacturing to sales and field service—to de-escalate issues and drive successful deliveries. He pairs practical shop-floor know-how with formal project leadership, and his career shows a pattern of stepping into increasingly strategic roles while maintaining attention to technical detail. Based in Lone Jack, Missouri, he brings pragmatic problem solving and continuous-improvement instincts to complex capital and product development programs.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science, Computer Design and Animation Technology, Associate of Applied Science, Computer Design and Animation Technology at Kent State University
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Github Skills (5)
jekyll8
liquid6
github-pages6
ruby6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ryanstraits/howbigishell
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:31 commits, 50 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 years
ryanstraits/ryanstraits.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jul 2021
Blog
Contributions:1743 commits, 6 PRs, 1645 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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