W. Ryan Speck, PMP®, CCNA®, FAIR®

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Timeline
About me
Systems Engineering Leader at Rackspace Technology® Entrepreneur/Owner of a Veteran Owned Business - Speck Vacay LLC
Education
- Community College of the Air Force
  1995 - 2000
  Associate's degree Criminal Justice/Police Science 4.0
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  2000 - 2006
  Information Systems Technology Information Technology Magna Cum Laude
  Activities and Societies: Golden Key National Honor Society
- Community College of the Air Force
  2001 - 2004
  Associate's degree Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician 4.0
Experience
- United States Air Force
  Oct 1994 - Nov 2003
  - IT Helpdesk Supervisor (Staff Sergeant, USAF)
    Aug 2000 - Nov 2003
  - Law Enforcement (Airman Basic through Staff Sergeant, USAF)
    Oct 1994 - Sept 2000
- Joint Communications Support Element
  Nov 2003 - Jun 2006
  IT Supervisor (Staff Sergeant, USAF)
- United States Air Force
  Jun 2006 - Dec 2010
  - Course Director, Combat Readiness School (Master Sergeant, USAF)
    Jun 2008 - Dec 2010
  - Network Operations Manager (Technical Sergeant, USAF)
    Jun 2006 - Jun 2008
- Joint Communications Unit
  Dec 2010 - Jun 2014
  Superintendent (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF)
- USSOCOM
  Jul 2014 - Jul 2016
  Operations Superintendent (Chief Master Sergeant, USAF)
- Joint Communications Unit
  Jul 2016 - Sept 2018
  Air Force Senior Advisor (Chief Master Sergeant, USAF)
- Andeavor
  May 2018 - Jul 2018
  Fellow, Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship at Andeavor
- Rackspace Technology
  Sept 2018 - now
  Manager, Infrastructure & Applications Engineering
- Speck Vacay LLC
  Mar 2022 - now
  Owner, Speck Vacay LLC
  Speck’s Vacay LLC mission is to provide top notch vacation home & rv vacation rentals to our valued guests servicing Tampa Fl and the Texas Hill Country. https://www.speckvacay.com
Licenses & Certifications
- Create Image Captioning Models
  Google
  Aug 2023
  View certificate
- Introduction to Generative AI Studio
  Google
  Aug 2023
  View certificate
- Transformer Models and BERT Model
  Google
  Aug 2023
  View certificate
- PagerDuty Foundational Practitioner Certification
  PagerDuty
  Jul 2022
  View certificate
- Project Management Professional
  Project Management Institute
  Mar 2018
- CCNA-Routing & Switiching
  Cisco
- Network +
  CompTIA
- Sec+
  CompTIA
- Incident Responder Certification
  PagerDuty
  Jun 2022
  View certificate
- Incident Responder Certification
  PagerDuty
  Jun 2022
  View certificate