User:Cryptic C62/KotN

Ryan Malloy is an adventurous furry dude who currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. He loves making people laugh with wacky voices, made-up words, and copious quantities of self-deprecating shenaniganry. He is a nerd of many colors, with a keen interest in game mechanics, polyrhythms, crowdsourcing, and sandwiches.

Personal life
Ryan spent much of his childhood conquering puzzles, video games, and math problems. While in middle school, he began teaching himself how to play guitar, and discovered his passion for self-instruction and venturing off the beaten path. Unlike many of his peers and pals, Ryan chose to never drink alcohol or party while in college, instead focusing on the activities that he found so inexplicably fascinating: editing Wikipedia, writing code, and designing lighting. It was through lighting design that Ryan met his current girlfriend, Naomi, who is a constant reminder that you can find happiness if you stick with what you believe in. Ryan's dedication to nerdiness culminated in 2012, when he began designing his own card game, Apex Predator, with the goal of simulating the real-time strategy video game genre in a tabletop card game format.

Education

 * Attended Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut
 * Took a million thousand math classes
 * Occasionally got along with English teachers, but usually not
 * VP Tech and Master Carpenter of theater club


 * Attended Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts
 * Received Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics
 * Took a million thousand math classes
 * Knows that the closure of a hyperplane in ℝn is itself, but since it is not bounded, by the Heine–Borel theorem it cannot be a compact space
 * Also took classes on physics, astronomy, criminology, and computer science (because they're awesome, obviously)
 * Graduated magna cum laude with even trying

Career

 * Assistant Karate Instructor at Dynamic Martial Arts
 * Production Overhire at Westport Country Playhouse
 * Intern at Design One New York
 * Apprentice Carpenter at Showmotion, Inc. (worked on the set for The Book of Mormon)
 * Character Performer at Walt Disney World
 * Associate Technical Director at Staples High School Theater
 * Math Tutor at Wilton Tutoring Center
 * Lighting Designer for Northeastern University Dance Company
 * Associate Director of Math Content at the Worldwide Center of Mathematics
 * eHow Presenter for Demand Media
 * User Experience Consultant for LearnBop
 * Technical Director for Northeast Children's Theater Company
 * Marketing Intern at Credo Reference
 * Campus Ambassador for Wikimedia Foundation
 * Alignment Edcurator for Boundless Learning
 * Personal care assistant for an economics researcher with cerebral palsy
 * Youth programs instructor and routesetter at Rock Spot Climbing
 * Transcriptionist at Audio Transcription Center

Nerdchievements

 * Wikipedia stats: 9,500 edits made, 76 articles created, 3 national conferences attended
 * YouTube channel stats: 215,000 views, 144 subscribers
 * Produced one of the top 500 most popular eHow videos of 2012
 * Invented a new system of Rubik's cube notation
 * Peak online chess rating: 1900 Elo
 * Beat Halo 2 on Heroic difficulty without firing any weapons
 * Maintains this, one of the three most popular threads in the history of the Straight Dope, a message board with over 100,000 members
 * Created an entire wiki to explain the rules of Apex Predator, a tabletop card game