-Chris Rogers

Simcha Shtull (previously, owner of a web design company; currently psychotherapist)

Billi Kid, Artist at Large — Public Works Department

Scott Zuckerman, Wexford Financial Strategies

More than just a systems administrator, Charles in a magical gray area somewhere between a scripting guru and analytical problem solver. (He also knows a ton about Unix and has a super-cool attitude).

Charles has worked for media companies and startups.

Charles likes almost anything by Cory Doctorow and long walks along Pearl Street.

Should you store your company’s data in a cloud? If so, which cloud solution meets your needs? Should your developers work in a virtual environment? What about a secure VPN?  Should you build your own cloud?

We help companies navigate through these options and build a modern virtual work environment. We configure the desired environment, and train software teams to properly use software repositories and revision control systems. Creating an Agile workflow requires a solid development environment that can change rapidly. We’ll let you concentrate on the rest.

There are a number of open source and commercial virtualization solutions out there, and we have the expertise to provide support you can feel secure about for your company. We believe in the virtual office and we practice what we preach with our own team.

We’re here and we’re on your side. Whether you need us to squeeze out every bit of network performance, build resilient network topology, or boot hackers out of your network, we’ll get the job done.  We offer complete managed physical and virtual infrastructure for your organization with security and performance as a top priority.  We’ve built the infrastructure for high traffic sites, enterprise networks for corporations, and storage systems capable of powering the next streaming sensation.

If you don’t want to bother with all that, we’ll put your server on our network in one of our datacenters. We’re bi-coastal, but our parents love us anyway.

We currently have available space in power in our New York and Seattle DC’s.  If you are in need of small footprint co-location with small or large bandwidth requirements we can offer highly competitive rates at this time.  We’re also offering VPS instances of all kinds starting at $30/mo; specializing in low traffic 24×7 nodes.  Please contact us for more information.

Of course, if it’s just straight email that you need, we can help you with SMTP and IMAP ( or POP if you must ).

Need a project management system? We can also host and manage ActiveCollab for you. It’s an excellent alternative to Basecamp without the high monthly cost.

We’re also big fans of the DimDim conferencing suite.

Lets face it, you didn’t set out to become a SysAdmin. We’ll help make your server FLY and lock things down from those pesky hackers. If you need to build multiple layers of redundant load balanced systems we can help you do that too. We even have a custom product that will centralize configuration management and give your system environment revision control which you rely on for your code.

BTW we’re also experts in lots of other UNIX variants and all those services running on the machine. Who needs a full time systems staff? We’ll build it right so that you can spend more time on building the killer app, just don’t forget to invite us to the BBQ.

We know WordPress backwards, forwards and upside down. Not just how to install plugins, but how to write them, hook them into the WordPress core and we’ll show you how to fix its shortfalls. Ask our WordPress clients. We made converts out of them.

Need a small site? WordPress. Large site? WordPress. Blog? Yeah WordPress can do that too. We love WordPress so much we think it can play the shark in Jaws ( sorry Kevin, I stole your line ).

Lorraine’s fascination with geek culture and coding began with her late-night installs of Linux and FreeBSD while in college. Who knew that one day video conferencing wouldn’t require a kernel modification?

A restless spirit landed her in software and web development positions at places varying from the corporate (Forbes.com) to the non-profit (Brooklyn Museum).

But how to merge a tech background with a love of nature? A summer of garden design classes and a move to Seattle! This passionate reawakening prompted a shift into marketing, specifically for a ecologically-minded architecture firm.

So lady, what are you doing here at DefaultRoute? You can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you can’t take the geek out of the girl. She thinks we’re up to something cool, and she believes in the people. She’ll even convince you that we can work on your project and get it done right. Seriously.

You can read Lorraine’s food and garden blog over at Bread & Buttercups.

She’s also in love with finding new music, and started up a group called AudioKitten.

Over the fifteen years he’s worked the web, Aidrian has held positions as a graphic designer, 3D animator, Flash coder, front end specialist, and both a PHP and ASP server-side man.

Four years at Razorfish as a Presentation Layer Developer helped him hone his front end skills to a level of mastery, and working as a soup-to-nuts single-solution resource at unit.one.studios for the duration of his career has made him a bang-up project manager and client partner.

When he’s not beating websites into submission, Aidrian both practices and teaches sacred geometry, and likes to conduct weird sustainable living experiments in his home.

The Falcons site provides up-to-the-minute news and information on the team and the players with content that is gathered from the organization as well as fan sites. DefaultRoute was involved in every step of the process, from information architecture, systems architecture, programming, and ultimately launching the new site in 2010.

Although DefaultRoute is not based in Atlanta, the Falcons are now our favorite team. Go Falcons!

Check out CNN.com’s coverage of The NEW New York event.

DefaultRoute provides hosting for GreenHomeNYC website as well as all the programming for The NEW New York event.

Preston Bailey relies on DefaultRoute for all of their tech needs. We code and maintain their web presence, and we also implemented and host their corporate email. With us, they dont need an in-house IT department.

Public Work’s Department works has been featured in the windows of Barney’s and frequently works with NBA to promote art and basketball.

http://www.premaritalseattle.com/

Chuck started his career working in the financial sector for companies such as D. E. Shaw & Co., and Goldman Sachs. He started building websites in 1997 and over the years has worked on dozens of high traffic websites including the Official NFL Atlanta Falcons site.

Chuck has written many technology articles for PC Magazine, and has been an Open Source enthusiast for more than 10 years.

Chuck obtained his MBA from William Paterson University and Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering from Tufts University.

Chuck resides in New York City and can be found touring art galleries in the Lower East Side.

David’s experience spans both front-end and back-end technology. Being hands on in enterprise level systems architecture to n-tiered application architecture, his depth of knowledge spans through many interactive technologies such as Flash, iPhone SDK, AJAX, and many rich media application libraries.

Dave lives in New York City. When he’s not working, he enjoys Sci-Fi movies and eating steak.

Mike’s always on the lookout for innovative solutions to web traffic surges, ways to keep his servers secure, and telling everyone that they’re crazy for not using encryption everywhere. We know, we know.. (that you’re right).

Mike heads our Operations Management group, and manages the infrastructure that powers all of our hosted products and services. He also oversees the administrative and financial operations of the company. His concerns for security, reliability, and cohesiveness in the infrastructure of DefaultRoute are just some of the reasons why he’s a great part of the team.

Mike lives in Seattle, WA with his wife and daughter. He enjoys British pop from the 80′s, photography, and staring at Mt. Rainier.

DefaultRoute continues to host her site and we wish her continued success in her business.

Twinkle NYC is a New York City photo studio that specializes in children’s photography. Founded by photographer Karsten Staiger, Twinkle NYC has been featured on NYC television show Toni on New York on WPIX.