Robbi/Catastrophe is a dyed in the wool geek. She’s atypical in that she’s a female over the age of forty and defies you to tell her that’s uncommon.
She has worked for Disney/Go.com, HotRate, Mozilla, editing and setting up search engines, Quin Street Marketing, in SEO and copywriting, WBS in Menlo Park, hosting an internet talk show.
A former customer service director for Charles Warner, the author of Invision Board; Copywriting, Word Press word press design and CMS, Hacking windows (nope not the bad kind) and teaching antiphishing and internet Security to children and adults are her favorite things. Linux, Windows and Perl are her favorite play toys. She’s a corel and Gimp baby and wll tell you to keep your Adobe to yourself.
“I firmly believe that there is nothing someone can’t learn about computers, from the first grader to the ninety year old if they actively take a few minutes to sit down and play around with it. The oldest newcomer to computers can build a website in a week if that’s what they want to do. The problem is explaining it in a way that they understand.”
She holds certifications in 17 differing areas of geekiness. She is active in all areas of consulting, and writes prolifically for multiple internet sites,(nature, computers,travel,leisure,crafting,cooking and many others,) including this one.
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David is a security and Network engineer who has worked all over the world for Intrasec Technologies, as a network engineer for KDS Internet and multiple other companies nation wide.
He is currently an engineer for Sun Microsystems working to develop new technologies.
David holds certifications in security and software that are far too numerous to count, as well as a Bachelors in Systems and Internet Technologies.
David is among a handful of people who can view any aspect of a network, tear it down, and rebuild it, or tell you how to secure anything, anywhere.
David is the founder of CPU4All, a company that gathers up older software and hardware and refurbishes it to distribute free of charge to the elderly or at risk youth, ad teaches them to use it.
He is also our resident security and Linux Guru.
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Donald French is a household name in computing, and can teach you anything about anything that you’re interested in.
Our resident guru in multiple areas of programming, but particularly Ruby On Rails, Donald is in part responsible for the TRS 80 computers of Tandy fame, along with having owned and operated his own company, and singlehandedly tackling several of the hospitals in the US record keeping systems and overhauling them.
If you’ve’ got programming questions in Ruby, we’ve got no doubt that Donald has the answers. He’s one of the few of the earlier honest to goodness geeks who kept up with the changes both online and in the technology and is still making use of them today.
