Ryan Faas is a freelance technology journalist and network consultant who has been writing about Apple products, business and enterprise IT topics, and the mobile industry for over a decade.

His most recent book, “iPhone for Work” (Apress, 2009) helps demystify the use of the iPhone as a business tool. In it, Ryan explains how to use all the features of the iPhone and how to apply each one (including some of the ones that initially seem completely consumer-oriented) to real-life professional and business situations. He also provides information about a range of business and work-related applications for the iPhone that can help any business user as well as apps of specific interest to those working in specific industries.

Ryan’s first book, written while serving as Mac hardware guide/editor for About.com was “Troubleshooting, Maintaining, and Repairing Macs” (Osborne/McGraw-Hill – 2000), followed by “Essential Mac OS X Panther Server” (O’Reilly – 2005), and the Peachpit Short Cut “Creating a Widget in Dashcode” (2007).

In addition to full length works, Ryan is a prolific writer whose articles and how-to guides have been regularly featured by Computerworld, Enterprise Mobile Today, InformIT, Peachpit Press, About.com, and the Datamation news service. In 2008 he was awarded a Neal National Business Journalism award for his work featured in Computerworld’s “Week of Leopard” series.

In addition to writing, Ryan has spent a large portion of the past fifteen years in the systems/network engineering and IT management fields as an IT director, systems administrator, trainer, and all round multi-platform and mobile device technology consultant. His client list ranges from human services agencies, small non-profits, and private schools to fortune 500 hundred companies and major media agencies.

Living in upstate New York, Ryan continues to offer training, documentation and editing, and IT consulting services to organizations around the world.