Rob Ruchte
title and firm: Owner, Thirdparty Labs
services: Custom Content Management and Application Development
location: Designbox, Raleigh, NC
website:Thirdparty Labs          
email: rob at thirdparty labs dot com

Thirdparty Labs is a group of seasoned web designers and developers. We share a passion for art and technology, and strive to create solutions that are elegant in both form and function. Our multi-disciplinary backgrounds give us the unique ability to maintain full perspective on all aspects of a project at all times; considering standards, functionality, and usability during the design phase, and user experience while coding. We love what we do, and approach each project with enthusiasm and commitment.

Rob is a second generation propellerhead. Raised by a computer science professor and a technical writer, Rob spent his formative years basking in the glow of monochrome CRTs. While his friends were playing Pong on the Atari, Rob was dialed into the Wake County Public Schools VAX mainframe playing Zork. Not much has changed since then. Rob has been building interactive web sites since 1997, and has been involved in the development of applications for fortune 500 firms including FirstUnion/Wachovia, Cable & Wireless, DuPont, and GlaxoSmithKline. While Rob is a PHP/MySQL evangelist, he is fluent in most of todays (and yesterday's) programming languages. With a logical problem solving approach and thorough knowledge of internet technology, Rob builds solutions that work.