Ryen came into asset management through GIS (geographic information systems), giving him a technological, spatial, and temporal view to add to his asset management approach.  Ryen has worked for the public sector, a number of asset management software companies, and engineering firms both small and large. Ryen spent several years leading asset management projects for U.S. Departments of Transportation, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles.

Ryen is familiar with municipal asset management, financial accounting, a number of computerized maintenance management systems, and PowerBI dashboarding. Ryen was the Chair of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group representing the United States in the development of International Standard 55001 – Asset Management Systems.