Later in 1996 he received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management under supervision of East. Burton Swanson, and his Master of Business Administration from University of California, Berkeley.
After received his Bachelor in Anthropology and Chemistry from Sonoma State University, Ramiller has done graduate work in anthropology and linguistics in the 1970s. In the 1970s Ramiller had started his career in cultural resources management, doing both archaeological fieldwork and administration. In the 1980s he moved into the software industry, working in software development, documentation, administration and consultancy.
In the 1990s he joined the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management.
In the new millennium he was appointed Professor of Management at the Portland State University School of Business Administration.
He has been member of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2 (IFIP Working group 82).
