About
Hello! My name is Chris Miller. I am a technology advocate, entrepreneur and student. I have been in the IT industry for about eight years now — since I was 13. Perhaps not much for the seasoned IT veteran, but for a 21 year old I have had the opportunity to experience first hand a wide range of technology perspectives. One the one hand, my roots are in Linux; on the other, I’m a Windows guru; and on my third hand (yes, I have three; no, not really), I’m a developer. I like to think of myself as stuck somewhere between what traditional IT is and what the view is from a developer’s perspective.
Below is a little background about who I am and where I came from. If you don’t care, you can safely stop here.
I am from Kingsport, TN: a small town in the far Northeast corner of Tennessee. East Tennessee is a very strange place to live. On one hand, the people are very nice and warm; on the other, they talk funny, are afraid to think outside the box and are trapped in the mountain culture.
I went to High School at Dobbyns-Bennett for two years before switching to homeschool for my final years. While in homeschool I started working at a local IT firm called Intellithought.
Although some very good things such as great Bluegrass music and many good, down to earth people have come from these hills it is hardly any place today where one would want to live and do business; or at least from my perspective. Upon realizing this, I made the biggest single change in my life to date: I moved four hours away. Today I live in Murfreesboro, TN, a city about 25 minutes southeast of Nashville, TN. It’s a pretty cool place today, but I still don’t think I’m quite ready to settle here forever. I go to school at MTSU and am majoring in Accounting.
When I first came to Middle Tennessee, I lived in the dorms. Shortly thereafter, I rented an apartment with a few friends. During this time, I wasn’t taking school as seriously as I should have and decided I needed a full time job in addition to going to school. I wound up working for a company in Nashville called Digital Dog, Inc. This is a small web development and design shop. I was brought in as a PHP/MySQL developer and had a chance to refine some of my coding skills while working with a small team of developers.
About six months later, due to the poor management of the company and the major players in the company accepting new jobs, I decided to work for another company in the same building. Dolphini is a data-center in Nashville that I worked for during the winter of 2005 and spring of 2006. When the Fall 2006 school season came around at MTSU, I decided to go back full time and no longer work at a daily job in Nashville; the commute was really starting to become annoying, and my grades were beginning to diminish. Although I quit Dolphini, I continue to work for them on a contract basis providing support services.
While working at Intellithought, I met one of the most influential people in my life: Jake Necessary. We both have an obsession with all things Technology and share a unique entrepreneurial spirit. We had both started businesses on the side while working at Intellithought doing web hosting. We both knew this would be a unique market to get into and was something we understood well, both from a business model and technology side.
Since our goals were so well aligned, I dissolved my company, Compuville, Inc., and we formed a partnership known as 6PS Corporation. Later, we re-branded as ServerMotion, the company we operate as today.
ServerMotion is two fold: First, it’s primary line of business is web hosting and web services. We have colocation space a data center in Atlanta, GA and have equipment there where we operate our hosting services from. Additionally, we can provide IT support and web and application development services. We have a unique collection of contacts in the industry from people we have met to people we have worked with. By utilizing our own knowledge and skills as well as those of our associates, we are able to deliver a solution for almost any technology need today.
I enjoy playing drums as well. In East Tennessee, I was with a band for almost a year that played nearly every weekend. We were called Southern Highway Band and played mostly Southern Rock and Country, new and old. Although when I first started playing with this group, I really disliked country music it has since grown on me. This group was a collection of men older and more experienced than I, and I still am not sure why they put up with me in the beginning. All in all, I was able to learn a great deal about playing music and the role a drummer has in a live band.
Today, the only playing I do is at my church: World Outreach Church, playing mostly contemporary Christian music.
Recently, my days are filled with balancing school and ServerMotion. In doing so, my time is generally fully utilized (if not more so); and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I believe I am one of the few people in the world who can truly say they are happy today and enjoy what they do.