With Akira Kurosawa, John Carpenter and Mel Brooks as his inspiration, Ryan has written and directed over 30 films since the age of 11. Granted, most of them were shot in the garage of his home in Encino, but he swears they were good nonetheless.

While earning his BA from the Art Center College of Design, Ryan survived an internship with Oliver Stone, worked as a PA for L.A. Digital Post and personally saved the seats for Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts and Walter Matthau while working the publicity department for Warner Bros. He has also shot numerous concerts for Gold Circle Entertainment and currently
works as an editor for Film and Video Stock Shots.

In addition to building his commercial reel, Ryan is co-writing and developing the horror features "Blood Vessel" and "A Witch in Willow Creek". He intends to for these projects to be filmed somewhere other then his garage.