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.
His 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, Ball 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, he 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, Ball has spent his time at Definition 6
where he began running and perfecting the networking department,
built our development team, and is now focused on leading the
networking department, which serves as an intregral backbone to our
technological capabilities.