Ratner orchestrates the league’s public relations efforts, and is the publicity contact for men’s basketball, men's soccer and lacrosse. He serves as executive producer of the NEC Countdown to Tipoff preview show, as well as basketball and football telecasts on the NEC television network, where he is responsible for the scheduling of contests, acquisition of on-air talent and production of in-game and pre-taped features. Ratner oversees the league's new media initiatives, including podcasts, webstreaming, on-demand video archive and YouTube channel.  He also directs the content of the league’s official website and facilitated the redesign and relaunch of the site in February, 2004. Ratner organizes and coordinates NEC Championships for basketball and tennis, and conducts the NEC Scholar-Athlete awards program. His 2003-04 NEC men’s basketball guide was judged "Best In The Nation" among all conference publications by CoSIDA. Additionally, Ratner served on the NCAA I-AA Football Eastern Region Advisory Committee from 2004-07.

Prior to joining the NEC, Ratner served as Sports Information Director at Hunter College in New York City for six years.  Ratner was responsible for publicizing the program's 19 sports, facilitated the development and aided in the maintenance of Hunter’s athletic website and was also involved in the internal and external marketing of the program.  While at Hunter, Ratner served as the Publicity Director for the Skyline Athletic Conference from 1993-95 and the Met Wrestling Conference from 1994-98, while also serving as a radio analyst for CUNY Athletic Conference basketball from 1993-97.