Ryan Greenlee began consulting at technology startups in 1996. Consulting was a way to keep skills current as he looked for the next startup. Always focusing on self-improvement, Ryan coached recreational adult softball and ice hockey teams to work on leadership and management skills, returned to college to develop his understanding of business and finance, and was open to taking new professional roles such as technical evangelist and product manager.
His startup career began in 1987 and he has experienced the highs and the lows of the industry. During his career he discovered that he was often called on to "fix" things that weren't working.
As an engineer this resulted in several roles that required rearchitecting entire code bases. It was during one of these jobs that Ryan realized that consulting was a path he should step on. This happened at a US gaming company. The product was a new casino gaming machine and the software was unstable. It took him three months to understand the code base, create a plan, and then guide the team through incremental changes. In 8 months the code base was stable and the company no longer needed a development team. This was a eureka moment and Ryan started dabbling in contracting and consulting.
After a move to California Ryan jumped back into startups full-time and eventually began using his "fix-it" skills with organizational challenges. People, process, technology. Applying his years of experiences and learnings Ryan is now able to enter an organization, identify root issues, and work with the teams to resolve them. He has successfully transformed underperforming and struggling teams into teams that are able to deliver high quality products on time.
Sunrunner Tech is owned and operated by Ryan and reflects a pivot into pursuing consulting full-time where he can share with others his leadership and change/transformation management skills.