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<!doctype html>
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<head>
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title>Ryan Provost — Executive Technology & Delivery Leader</title>
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</head>
<body>
<a class="skip-link" href="#main">Skip to content</a>
<div class="wrap" id="top">
<header>
<strong class="brand"><a href="#top">Ryan Provost</a></strong>
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<h1 class="name">Ryan Provost</h1>
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Leader • Speaker • Perpetual Learner • Developer • Human • Comfortably Uncomfortable
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I am an executive and leader who builds high-performing teams, leads complex transformations,
and delivers lasting outcomes that hold up under pressure.
I am a trusted advisor to executives, operating across leadership, architecture, delivery,
and hands-on execution.
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I believe that the experience is just as important as architecture.
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<span class="pill">Technology as a Business</span>
<span class="pill">P&L Ownership</span>
<span class="pill">Platform Modernization</span>
<span class="pill">Experience Architecture</span>
<span class="pill">Delivery at Scale</span>
<span class="pill">Executive Alignment</span>
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<a class="btn primary" href="#contact">Let’s talk</a>
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<a class="btn" href="#board">Board / Advisory</a>
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<h2>What I Do</h2>
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Associate Partner & Technical Director <a href="https://www.ibm.com/consulting" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@IBM</a>
• Licensed Real Estate Salesperson <a href="https://provost.randrealty.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@HHRandRealty</a>
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I do not run technology as a cost function. <b>I build technology organizations that create value.</b>
That means treating the technology portfolio like a business: clear owners, clear unit economics,
and measurements tied to revenue, margin, and customer outcomes.
I work closely across business units and finance to make investment decisions explicit,
quantify tradeoffs, and run the function with true operational discipline.
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I take ownership of high-risk, high-visibility work where execution and credibility matter.
I translate ambiguity into decisions, decisions into action, and action into durable systems.
Accessibility is non-negotiable—great experiences include everyone.
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<strong>Technology as a Profit Center</strong>
Operated technology portfolios with P&L accountability, measuring performance like a business unit.
Aligned investment to revenue enablement, margin, and customer outcomes in partnership with finance.
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<strong>Scale & Delivery</strong>
Led global organizations of 2–400 people and delivered programs ranging from $100K to $400M+,
including multi‑year, enterprise‑critical initiatives.
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<strong>Speed & Efficiency</strong>
Compressed time‑to‑market by up to 75%, increased delivery velocity by 30–40%,
and removed structural bottlenecks that slowed execution.
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<strong>Cost & Economics</strong>
Drove 50–90% infrastructure cost reductions and uncovered $4M in previously unrealized revenue
through platform and operating‑model redesign.
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<strong>Quality & Reliability</strong>
Moved systems from zero automation to 80–100% test coverage and reduced production defects
by more than 90% in highly-regulated environments.
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<strong>People & Culture</strong>
Built durable organizations with 3× industry‑average retention by establishing clarity,
accountability, and standards that teams can execute against.
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<strong>Private diligence available:</strong> Full client-specific case studies, metrics, artifacts, and references are available privately upon request.
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<h2>Selected Case Studies</h2>
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<h3>Global Financial Services Platform</h3>
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Took control of a failing, multi‑million‑dollar delivery in a highly regulated financial environment.
Rebuilt governance, refactored core systems, increased automated test coverage from 0% to 80%+,
and delivered on schedule, restoring executive confidence and extending the engagement.
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<h3>Public Sector Digital Credential Platform</h3>
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Led end‑to‑end delivery of a public‑sector digital credential platform serving 100,000+ users
and processing over one million verifications, designed for reliability, security,
accessibility, and compliance at scale.
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<h3>Global Media & Streaming Platform Portfolio</h3>
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Directed the modernization and scaling of a global portfolio of consumer platforms,
growing teams from 10 to 70+, standardizing delivery,
and reducing launch timelines from months to under one week.
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<h2>Speaking</h2>
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Selected talks and speaking focus.
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<p>
My current speaking focuses on leadership under sustained pressure,
the long-term cost of neglecting health in demanding environments,
and how decision quality, resilience, and performance change over time.
</p>
<p>
I speak candidly about the tradeoffs leaders make, the ones they avoid,
and the consequences that surface years later when health and boundaries are treated as optional.
This is not motivational content. It is practical and experience-based.
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<p>
<a href="https://www.pscp.tv/w/1PlJQAqyYBBJE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tech Duels (Angular vs React)</a> •
<a href="https://www.meetup.com/techinmotionnyc/events/238648488/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Future of APIs</a> •
<a href="https://go.debate.nyc/tech-duels-debate-tournament" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tech Duels (Judge)</a> •
<a href="https://byteacademy.co/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2018 Commencement Speaker @ ByteAcademy</a>
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For speaking inquiries, email me with “Speaking” in the subject line.
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<h2>Board & Advisory</h2>
<p>
I serve as a strategic advisor and am actively pursuing board roles where execution discipline,
platform strategy, and operational resilience are material to enterprise value.
<br><br>
I contribute independent judgment, pattern recognition from scaled environments,
and a business-of-technology lens that ties platforms, operating models, and governance to enterprise value.
I am most useful where technology strategy must be grounded in financial reality and executed without drama.
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<strong>What I Bring</strong>
Platform + delivery leadership, modernization strategy, operating model design, governance, and measurable execution.
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<strong>Best-fit organizations</strong>
Regulated businesses, enterprise B2B, digital-first services, and companies modernizing legacy platforms.
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<strong>Where I’m most useful</strong>
Scaling from “works” to “repeatable,” modernization without disrupting revenue, and increasing predictability and reliability.
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<strong>Board Bio + Private Business Cases:</strong> available upon request.
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<h2>Where I’ve Been</h2>
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A career built across enterprise, startups, and entrepreneurship — consistently stepping into roles where scale, reliability, and credibility matter.
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<h3 class="role-title">IBM</h3>
<p class="tagline">Associate Partner & Technical Director</p>
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<span>2017 – Present</span>
<span class="dot" aria-hidden="true">•</span>
<span>Consulting & delivery leadership</span>
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<li>Lead globally distributed teams and deliver high-stakes programs with executive visibility and real business outcomes.</li>
<li>Translate ambiguity into an executable plan: architecture, delivery model, funding alignment, and staffing.</li>
<li>Operate at executive altitude without losing engineering credibility — decisions, tradeoffs, and measurable results.</li>
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<h3 class="role-title">Warner Bros.</h3>
<p class="tagline">Director, Technical Product Strategy & Director, Client App Development</p>
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<span>2014 – 2017</span>
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<span>Media & streaming portfolio</span>
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<li>Scaled client application teams and established standards that made delivery predictable across a portfolio.</li>
<li>Introduced value-based portfolio thinking (financial models + estimation) to prioritize what mattered most.</li>
<li>Drove modernization that reduced launch timelines from months to under a week for new releases.</li>
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<h3 class="role-title">Tykoon</h3>
<p class="tagline">VP, Engineering</p>
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<span>2012 – 2013</span>
<span class="dot" aria-hidden="true">•</span>
<span>Startup scale-up</span>
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<li>Built foundational platform capabilities and instrumentation to improve engagement and decision-making.</li>
<li>Reworked infrastructure and operations to reduce cost while improving resiliency.</li>
<li>Hired and led a high-performing team through rapid growth and shifting priorities.</li>
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<h3 class="role-title">Ann Taylor</h3>
<p class="tagline">Director, Web Application Development</p>
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<span>2011 – 2012</span>
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<span>Retail & eCommerce</span>
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<li>Modernized web delivery and helped push the organization toward scalable cloud-first patterns.</li>
<li>Led mobile-first experience work supporting accelerated digital commerce growth.</li>
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<h3 class="role-title">Sony Music</h3>
<p class="tagline">Lead Developer</p>
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<span>2008 – 2011</span>
<span class="dot" aria-hidden="true">•</span>
<span>High-availability platforms</span>
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<ul>
<li>Modernized a high-availability platform and reduced key processing cycles dramatically.</li>
<li>Identified and recovered previously unrealized revenue through transaction-flow analysis and remediation.</li>
<li>Represented the business in standards and partner conversations, turning requirements into durable implementations.</li>
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<h3 class="role-title">Ryan Provost, Inc.</h3>
<p class="tagline">President / Founder</p>
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<span>2004 – 2008</span>
<span class="dot" aria-hidden="true">•</span>
<span>Entrepreneurship</span>
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<li>Built and ran a digital consultancy end-to-end: sales, delivery, operations, finance, and hiring.</li>
<li>Delivered for brands with 10M+ monthly visitors; earned repeat business through outcomes and trust.</li>
<li>Additional client specifics are available privately upon request.</li>
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<strong>Executive signal:</strong> This isn’t a list of jobs. It’s a pattern — stepping into complexity, aligning incentives, and making delivery predictable.
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<h2>Who I Am</h2>
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Experience Architect • Coach • Developer • Pilot • Perpetual Learner • Comfortably Uncomfortable
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I turn friction into forward motion.
Friction is where systems reveal their truth, where incentives collide and pressure rises.
I am comfortable there.
</p>
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I value truth over comfort, clarity over consensus, and outcomes over theater.
I’m direct, calm under pressure, and relentless about aligning incentives so teams can execute without politics eating the mission.
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Coaching is not an abstract concept for me. It is something I do every day, formally and informally.
I am an upline for many people, whether or not that title appears on an org chart.
I coach on careers, health, progress, and life, because those things are inseparable in the real world.
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<p>
This is why the people who work with me tend to stay, and why I attract strong talent even when a role
does not check every conventional box. People want leaders who invest in them as humans, not resources,
and who tell the truth about what it actually takes to grow.
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I am deeply intentional about health because it is the one asset that becomes harder to build and easier to lose over time.
In demanding work and life schedules, physical and mental health are often treated as negotiable.
I do not accept that premise.
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<p>
It directly affects judgment, emotional regulation, energy, and presence when the stakes are high.
If you do not protect it deliberately, it erodes quietly and then all at once.
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My coaching focuses on sustainable performance.
I care about how leaders <b>operate across decades, not quarters</b>,
and how disciplined habits around health, boundaries, and recovery compound into better leadership and better lives.
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<h3>Impact</h3>
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A few things I care about outside of my day job.
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Executive Producer <span class="muted">@</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cool Worlds Labs</a>
(<a href="https://www.coolworldslab.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Columbia University</a>) •
<a href="https://www.charitywater.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charity: Water</a>
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<h2>Contact</h2>
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If you’re hiring, exploring advisory/board fit, or want access to private case studies, the cleanest way to reach me is via LinkedIn.
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