Ryan Kaplan = {"Business", "Engineering", "Finance", "Web Dev"}
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    • Financial Services
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Stacking Skills

Engineering & Drafting Services

My Civil & Environmental Engineering Design and Drafting scope of services is fairly comprehensive. See my Portfolio page for some examples of reports I've produced from systems analysis, to economic and financial modeling, to renewable energy projects. See my Resume here, and the Engineering Services page for more detail. In general, my scope of engineering services includes:
  • Site Plans (prescriptive and as-built)
  • Topographic Surveys (survey, processing, post-processing, maps)
  • Grading Plans (prescriptive, retroactive, and stabilization) with cut and fill
  • General Permitting
  • Low Impact Development Plans
  • Stormwater Plans
  • Plan revisions (civil, mechanical, electrical)
  • Design and Modeling Architectural Lighting Plans
  • Spec Writing
  • Soil Reports
  • Site Septic (OWTS) Design & Reports
  • Bid Documents
  • Quantity Takeoffs
  • Force Analysis for seismic and wind loading
  • ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician
  • Field Testing Building Structural Elements
  • ADA Compliance in new and existing buildings
  • Compliance Analysis for Municipal Codes
  • Road Standards Compliance (CAMUTCD and CalDOT, and local fire standards)
  • Electrification in new and existing buildings
  • Solar Design
  • Chemical Fate & Transport Analysis
  • Bioremediation Plans
  • And more... just ask
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Financial Services

With a team who collectively leverage 200+ years of experience, I can help you:
  • Create and fund a living trust for the best deal you'll find, to prevent your estate from going into probate when the time comes. Our estate plans include advance directives, Financial and Medical Powers of Attorney, HIPAA forms, quit claim deeds, wills, and more. 
  • Ennumerate and title all your assets under your trust, and check up annually to make sure that property and assets are current and not subject to probate.
  • Finance permanent life insurance with leverage. It's called premium finance, and the threshold to qualify is just $100k in income annually.
  • Buy life insurance with pre-tax money inside of your 401(k).
  • Rollover an old 401(k) into a self-directed Solo 401(k) you control that facilitates every kind of investment that the IRS allows inside of it.
  • Put your Solo 401(k) into your trust
  • Borrow the lesser of 50% of the funds in your 401(k) or $50k without a distribution, if you pay yourself back within 5 years at 4.5% interest.
  • Use 401(k) money for a "Rollover for Business Startups" (ROBS). 
  • Start a Solo 401(k) (with a biz or biz intent) even if you have existing 401(k)s
  • Restructure your business as an LLC and elect for S-corp taxation to be both employer and employee, pay yourself a W-2 income with "reasonable compensation" and then:
    • Pay yourself benefits and write them off on the business side
    • Compensate yourself up to 25% of my salary into my Solo 401(k).
    • The remainder after salary compensation, retirement contributions and other business expenses you can pay to yourself as the owner at just a 15.3% tax rate with a K-1.
      • The legal and accounting expense for all of this is a write-off.
      • And this arrangement opens up whole sections of the tax code for optimization! 
Book an appointment right now to get all of this going!

Business Consulting

See my full scope of business services offered here, my portfolio of businesses here, and some examples of strategic analyses here.
​Having built a few small businesses myself, and given my academic background that includes web and graphic design, environmental engineering, and a strategic sustainability MBA, I can offer deep experience, systems thinking, execution and delivery on projects that range from detail oriented, to technical, to market-facing. Whether you're seeking marketing solutions, logistics, sourcing, outsourcing, margin improvements, benefits design, reorganization, tax efficiency, I can help. I've developed an extensive network of professionals that I can call on to supplement my scope of knowledge so that you can be assured you get exactly the right bespoke advice for your specific business. No appropriate solutions can be offered without a comprehensive understanding of your operations and needs. This is a guarantee. 
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Application Development & Software Programming

Some would say that knowing how to program Fortran 90 is not relevant. I beg to differ. I learned to develop modular code by hand without the benefit of SDKs, using only a terminal interface in a Linux environment to compile programs for advanced mathematical solutions. Using anything else by comparison is a breeze. These days occasionally I like to nerd out with GSuite to produce integrated apps for business processes. At the moment I'm working to stitch together some freeware APIs to create a comprehensive alternative to some SaaS applications for common businesses problems (payroll, HR, bookkeeping and accounting). Chances are in your businesses or personal life there is something that could be automated and free up more of your time, which is inarguably the most precious thing we all have. Extract yourself from menial tasks with confidence that the work gets done and is documented and auditable.
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Custom Web Design

Need a website? I can build one for you that you can maintain with ease, or that you can depend on me to host, manage, and maintain in perpetuity for the lowest cost you would find in the US. 
See my portfolio here. The systems I use have Ecommerce features, SEO, integration with social media platforms, blogs, forms, and plenty of bells and whistles. I can set up your branded domain email accounts that you don't have to pay extra for. Your site will be fully integrated and centrally organized from top to bottom with all of your business activities. I can also set you up in Wordpress so you can leverage the whole ecosystem of apps and plugins to different services. You'll have a secure backend and frontend. Wordpress is old, yes, but it's just as capable and customizable now as ever. Or if you want something more bespoke, I can code your site from scratch. Want something very capable that you can maintain yourself through an AI chat interface? I recommend Loveable.dev, Softr, V0.dev, Bolt.new, Replit, or a few others. 

A standard website, like this one, can be built for under $500 at my rates, and hosted for free in perpetuity. The more specific your requests, the faster and easier the process. Contact me here to get started. Or if you would prefer to converse over the phone, please indicate so in the contact form.
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Graphic Design 

I can develop any kind of print or digital 2-D or 3D graphic design collateral for your specific needs. I'll set you up with your own account so that you can manage and change or add anything when inevitably your offerings or something about your business shifts.
  • Logos
  • Menus
  • Banners and Signs
  • Branded Business Documents: Cards, Letterhead, Invoices, etc
  • Brochures
  • ​Anything else? I'm up to the challenge.
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