Founder
Founder - Ryan Yoakam
Ryan Yoakam founded Public Safety Cloud Standards after nearly 17 years supporting mission-critical public safety systems from the vendor side, most recently serving as Director over cloud operations, security, and compliance. His work has included cloud architecture, operational support, CJIS and security compliance, disaster recovery planning, go-live readiness, and long-term reliability for core public safety platforms.
Ryan’s experience spans core public safety platforms, including dispatch, records, corrections, police and fire, reporting, GIS, and related integrations. He has worked across lift-and-shift, hybrid, cloud-optimized, containerized, and cloud-native environments, with practical experience in AWS, vendor-hosted operations, monitoring, deployment practices, backup and recovery, and agency-to-vendor operational alignment.
Through PSCS, Ryan helps agencies create clarity around uptime expectations, planned maintenance, RTO and RPO commitments, disaster recovery evidence, shared responsibility, data ownership, CJIS responsibility mapping, observability, support models, vendor transparency, and operational risk. His focus is helping public safety leaders ask better questions, evaluate vendor responses more consistently, and define measurable expectations before contracts are signed or systems go live.
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