About Big Byte Computer Services
The owner of Big Byte Computer Services is Ruben Chavez
Why the name Big Byte? Well, Ruben is a big guy. He is between 6'3" and 6'4" and
he won't say how much he weighs. :) It fits. :)
Ruben was born and raised in Colorado and has lived in the Commerce City area for
pretty much his entire life. He was introduced to computers during the 386/486 era
by a good friend who taught him the basics about them. Being curious by nature,
(loves to read instruction manuals and thick books that would put a normal person
into coma) he enjoyed learning how they worked and helping his friend fix issues
that would come up from time to time. The first computer owned by Ruben was a Packard
Bell machine running at 75 MHz that his mom bought for him and his brother. His
love for music moved him to get a Sound Blaster Awe 32 soundcard and start experimenting
with MIDI music on that machine.
Fast forward a few years, Ruben found a job at a small local energy consulting company
where he was a research assistant and would enter data and assist the system administrator
with computer problems. During this time, he learned how to program using Visual
Basic 3 and created a few in-house applications for the company. Those applications
would be upgraded to Visual Basic 6 and later to .NET technology.
Along with stand-alone applications, programming for the web was also something
Ruben got into and has been doing ever since, using Microsoft technologies.
Towards the end of his employment with the consulting company (10 yrs), Ruben had
built a few dynamic, database driven intranet applications including an Email Marketing
site and several other applications for data retrieval and analysis. He was also
very much involved in setting up new network infrastructure, including Windows 2003
domain controllers, Microsoft Exchange for internal email, network switches, and
cleaning co-worker’s computers that had been attacked by viruses. He would be the
"go to" guy when it came to Microsoft Windows operating system issues.
For the past year and a half or so, Ruben has been working with a friend and has created
a few web applications, like a service oriented web application to store service
call data and an online order tracking system where customers can use information
from their order to check the status of their order and get tracking information
if applicable.
Since October 2010, Ruben went back to the small consulting company and has been
creating several intranet applications. As of late, he has been working on the client portal
site of company's website using .NET technology.
Off the clock, he has been helping friends and family with their computer issues
(upgrades, virus/spyware clean up, new system consulting, etc) for last 10 or so
years and feels good about helping them out. It’s been this that has convinced Ruben
that he knows enough about computers and should try to expand in helping others
and not charging an arm and a leg for honest, professional service for home and
small business owners. Typically these folks do not have the resources for a full
time IT department and are looking for alternatives to the well-known commercial
computer repair companies that some have been burned by.
Always learning, Ruben constantly reads tech blogs, news sites and other means on
the internet or on paper to add to his knowledge of technology. If he does
not know how to do something, he will learn how to do it, and learn it quick.
The bottom line is: Big Byte Computer Services is a home grown operation whose owner
loves computers and technology, and enjoys helping people use that technology for
their benefit.
In Ruben's spare time, he volunteers in the community and also plays bass guitar (as you can tell).
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