Ryan Lawrence,  web developer, joined Azavea in June.  He  supports the application design, marketing, and business development teams, working with Brian Jacobs, our full-time web designer to design and implement web application interfaces, websites, marketing collateral and much, much more.  He has been creating websites since the days of 14.4k modems and online services with strange names like Prodigy and GEnie.  He is comfortable working with technologies such as PHP, Python, jQuery, and MySQL to develop dynamic, user-friendly websites, and web applications.  Ryan also works as a freelance translator of Japanese-language documents, television programs, movies, and video games.  Outside of work, Ryan enjoys playing guitar (especially Telecasters), reading, vegetarian cooking, and traveling.