Name: Ryan Cullen
From: Born in Redwood City, but raised in Fremont, California. Later moved to Auburn, CA for Senior year of High School (Class of 2000, baby).
Work: I enlisted as a Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Analyst in the US Army in 2003, and I was subsequently stationed at Fort Campbell, KY, with the 101st Airborne Division. I deployed to Northern Iraq with my unit 2x for a total of 26 months. While deployed with the Brigade HQ, I provided Batallion-level intelligence and operations officers with GEOINT products; I tasked theater- and national-level imagery collection platforms . and I was honorably discharged 6 years later in 2009. I later Geospatial Intelligence Analyst for the Defense Department
Hobbies: Waze and maps in general, photography and a bit of gardening.
Current Waze Rank and Status: Rank 5 Area Manager all of North Carolina & Oregon plus five counties in NE Iowa.
Current Waze Project: Base map updates, and using RPPs for better navigation to hard-to-find locations. Also working on base map updates in five counties in NE Iowa as part of NWR-PLN Collaboration.