Ryan Ward
Chief Information Officer
Lowell, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Ward is a seasoned IT executive with 12 years of progressive experience leading large, complex infrastructure and operations teams and is currently the Chief Information Officer at KMG Prestige. He has a strong track record at Michigan State University modernizing services—moving data centers to colocations, shifting CapEx to OpEx, and completing a 5-year re-architecture on time and under budget while increasing compute capacity by 25%. Ryan excels at mentoring technical staff and delivering sustainable, scalable solutions that cut costs (including $2.6M in licensing savings and a 75% reduction in certain storage service costs) and supported a 426% surge in virtual desktop use during the pandemic. His hands-on background ranges from web and application development to virtual systems, storage, and disaster recovery, giving him an unusually broad operating perspective for a CIO. Based in Lowell, Michigan, he combines strategic planning with practical execution—often negotiating vendor agreements and driving governance that improves security and operational resilience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who balances fiscal stewardship with user-focused service modernization.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Media Arts and Technology Games Web and interactive Media, B.A. Media Arts and Technology Games Web and interactive Media at Michigan State University
English
Github Skills (8)
velocity3
editing3
multimarkdown2
markdown2
ip-address2
macos1
agent1
dns1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rmward/dyn-dme-updater
May 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 5 months
mac-osagentdnsdnsmadeeasyaddress
rmward/pythonista-dropbox-sync
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:12 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
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