User:Robbyba

 Since February 2000, Robby has spent his time at Definition 6  and perfecting the networking department and hosting and managed services offerings. Most recently his role has expanded to include building our development team which provides the tools and websites that live on the technologies and platform the other departments build and maintain. In the mid 1990's, Robby helped migrate online content from individual dial-in computers to the now common World Wide Web. In 1994, he supported the infrastructure which allowed for the organization of beginner and intermediate Internet User Groups which enabled many people to create their very first web sites. From there, Robby spent 4 years working for The Weather Channel's Next Generation division creating alternative web access devises, like WebTV, Palm, Wireless, Weather to Your Desktop and fax prototype technologies, many of which are still used today. Specialties: Analysis, support, hosting, managed services, blogging, social media, capex, team building Team building, dedciated personal, longevity of tenure Developing new concepts, adapting to change in technology, using best tools for each opportunity Coding: XML, HTML, JavaScript, Perl .... Networks: Hosting websites with 1000's of concurrent users, with high availability quality demands : Hosting single domain networks over multiple geographic locations. Director of Programming, Networking, and Data Centers Robby Ball is the Director of Programming, Networking, and Data Centers for Definition 6. The networking group deals primarily with the support of technology systems for the company. This includes internal infrastructure, dedicated and premium web servers, and share web server farms. Also this team designs, develops, maintains and manages many other computer networks in our own collocation facility, other collocation facilities, and other locations of our customers' choosing. The programming group utilizes full time, part time, contract and off-shore developers in an optimum way to minimize costs and maintain value as we develop anything from custom applications and websites to deploying or upgrading Microsoft solutions.