Sound, screens, servers, signal, and the people who run them.

Since June 2026 I’ve managed the building automation platforms for Kennesaw State University: the controllers, networks and front ends behind heating, cooling, air handling and scheduling across campus.

I built 25Live → BAS Schedule Sync for Plant Ops: it reads room bookings from 25Live and writes them into the controllers as BACnet schedule exceptions, so heating, cooling and lighting follow the calendar instead of a fixed timetable, on WebCTRL, EcoStruxure and Niagara alike.

It’s the same instinct as live events, with a longer show: know every system, notice problems before the people in the room do, and keep it all documented well enough that the next person can pick it up.

At Kennesaw State’s Event & Venue Management I was Technical Director: patching optical and copper video and audio routes between venues, maintaining the large-format videoboards, running comms and audio, overseeing the department’s Cisco Meraki network, and turning an event coordinator’s idea into a working show.

Before that I spent three years leading a 20-person student crew there, and five years at the Fayette County Board of Education designing and deploying videoboard and distributed sound systems and managing a team of five Technical Directors.

At Country Fried Creative I built and maintained servers and VMs across a range of Linux distributions, and the stacks on top of them: WHM and cPanel, Docker, databases and WordPress, plus the DNS, SSL certificates, and Cloudflare Workers, Tunnels and APIs that put them on the internet.

At home that continues as GLaDOS, a self-hosted server behind a hardened reverse proxy that runs bibby.dev, this site, and everything else on the projects page.

I’m a licensed amateur radio operator, KN4RQL, working VHF and UHF from grid EM73sw, with SDR and APRS where radio and computers meet. I also hold a GMRS licence, WRMJ421.

The RF side of events is real work too: antenna theory and design, and frequency coordination so wireless mics, intercom packs and radios share the air without stepping on each other. I was president of the KSU Amateur Radio Club, W4KST for three years and am now its staff advisor.

I make portraits, mostly in the studio against a seamless backdrop: friends, coworkers, couples and the occasional dancer. No sets, just light, timing, and getting people comfortable enough to stop posing.

The full gallery lives at ryan.bibby.photography.

Adobe-certified in Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator and Dreamweaver, and a VFX generalist: the content that ends up on a videoboard, cut and composited by the same person who routes it there.

Most of what I’ve built has been built with a team: a 20-person student AV crew, five Technical Directors, two student organisations I led and now advise, and two years as a Resident Assistant.

I’m a Basic Life Support instructor, and KSU’s Division of Public Safety named me Crisis Coordinator of the Quarter and gave me three challenge coins.