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David Maloney was born in Belgium in 1973. Both of his
parents are Americans, and were in Belgium where his father
was attending medical school at the Université
Catholic du Louvain.
The family moved back to the US after his father
graduated, and David grew up in the small town of Spencer,
Massachusetts, where he received his diploma from David
Prouty High School in 1991. After high school, David
attended Boston College, where he double-majored in History
and Philosophy, and graduated with a B.A. in 1995.
Following graduation, David followed his lifelong passion
for computers into a network engineering position with
Microcomputer Technical Services, in Waltham, MA. While
there, he built upon his existing knowledge of computer
hardware and operating systems with more advanced work in
network operating systems and networking technologies.
Two years into his job with MTS, David realized that he
was working so hard that he was missing out on skiing, a
sport he had pursued since early childhood. He promptly quit
his job and drove out to Steamboat Springs, CO, where he
spent a season working as a ski lift operator, and living
the ski bum life.
The next spring, he decided to move down to Denver, where
he returned to the computer networking field, finding a
position as a network administrator with United Membership
Marketing Group. While there, he helped the IT department
grow from three servers to more than twenty, and transition
from an R:Base database running on NetWare to an Oracle
database running on Solaris on x86.
After helping UMMG weather the millennium, David decided
it was time to leave, and shortly thereafter accepted a
contract position with the National Network Operations
Center of AT&T Broadband (now Comcast). This position was
interesting, in that it allowed David to see the inner
workings of a huge corporation, and when the six month
contract was done, he was all too glad to leave.
As a reaction against the bureaucratic mentality of AT&T,
David searched for the smallest company he could work for,
and in early 2001, accepted a position as a Network Engineer
with Welch Computer Services. WCS was very much like the
first company David had worked for back in 1995, and he
found that he enjoyed getting back to consulting work.
In 2003, David founded Rapid Networks, and considered
leaving WCS completely. But after discussions with Rob
Welch, the owner of WCS, the two decided to create a new
company, owned jointly, to be called Rapid Business Systems.
Currently David is focused on delivering
the best consulting services for his small and medium-sized
business clients. When he is not working, David enjoys snow
skiing, hunting, hiking, scuba diving, and riding his
motorcycle. |
