Ryan Knopp

Senior architecture leader in IT Solution Operations organization accountable for technology direction of business applications and systems.

Lead team efforts in digital innovation and solution discovery. Includes ideation, rapid prototyping, MVP development, technology proof-of-concept, and roadmap planning.

Mentor architects, technology SMEs, business partners, and leadership on technology alignment, trends, processes, and strategy.

Served as BISO for commercial pharmaceutical business units (Diabetes, Bio-medicines, Oncology and International).

Drove information security education, strategy development, and risk management initiatives in partnership with business units senior leadership to enable critical business programs.

Led a team of security architects around the globe to design and implement information security controls into commercial business systems.

Accountable for architecture design, roadmap, and delivery oversight for company website technology stack and related services aligned to commercial objectives.

Advised leadership, stakeholders, and team members on technical solutions, industry trends, and user experience insights to drive digital business agenda.

Core team member of Lilly IT enterprise architecture and owner of application architecture principles. Regularly consulted and evangelized reference architecture.

Product owner of web site technical framework to consistently drive web site implementations globally.

Provided technical design and operational oversight of marketing websites and hosting stack including, Heroku, Github, Jenkins and other related technologies.

Execution lead and product owner for DevOps service to operationalize the digital reference architecture in Lilly USA in support of key marketing programs.

Implemented company-first automated campaign journeys across email, CRM, and third-party marketing channels.

Regularly consult with project teams, leaders, and business partners on technology challenges and solutions to business problems.

Supervised software development team to design and deliver virtual simulation, web, mobile, and desktop applications to Kaleidoscope clients.

Collaborated on customer software development projects with multidisciplinary teams consisting of client IT teams, external vendors, and design agencies.

Established delivery workflow with interaction design and visualization teams to deliver interactive simulation projects.

Implemented agile development process for ongoing long-term software development projects requiring a product life cycle.

Onsite consultant at large CPG customer delivering interactive 3D experiences and application development for consumer research and sales teams.

Delivered 3D visualization in both pre-rendered animation and real-time interactive experiences for design communication, marketing/sales, education, and research purposes.

Developed asset pipeline and workflows within Photoshop, Maya, 3ds Max, Unity, and Virtools along with accompanying standards and scripts to speed development.

Collaboratively engaged with team members, stakeholders, and external partners to design, build and deliver 3D software products that serve internal business partners.

Expanded existing visualization team capabilities by providing web site design and development services for customers and company.

Created digital and print collateral for supporting client marketing campaigns.

Supported customer web site operations and hosting platform.

Created stereoscopic 3D animations for communicating biological processes within human disease states.

Built custom production tools and scripts in Maya to accelerate complex animation tasks.