ROBBY BALL
Director of Networking
Robby Ball is the Director of 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. Using best practices defined by Microsoft and perfected by many years of experience, these programming and development departments allow our customers to take their visions and dreams and turn them into realities, which we can help support, or, if they wish, support for them.
Robby's training and experience started with playing baseball, basketball, running cross country in high school, to attending college at GA Tech, then GA State, acquiring a BS degree in Computer Science. This was followed by working in a bank, then running a night club, to running the largest online Bulletin Board system, BBS, in the Southeastern US in the early 1990's.
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.
Since February 2000, Robby has spent his time at Definition 6, first running 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.
