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Ronald D. Willis moved to Bloomington, IN to attend college at Indiana University, where he studied chemistry. During the course of his five-year undergraduate career, Ronald became heavily involved with computer work and held many computer-related occupations that allowed his knowledge of information technology to be nutured. Ronald's efforts would eventually offer him several work opportunities, including assisting with the inception of the crystallographic data exchange system Chemviz/Reciprocal Net as well as several crystallographic research projects. His interest in website design and development also awakened a desire to learn graphic design concepts. Equipped with these skills, Ronald slowly began building a digital portfolio, mainly comprised of self-conceived ideas and developed them into prospective projects while awaiting feasible client work. Some of Ronald's paramount personal projects include his own personal website and The Gravity Realm, which not only exhibits some of Ronald's best graphic work at that time, but also features his creative writing abilities.

Shortly before obtaining his Bachelor's degree, Ronald began his search for a program for post-baccalaureate study. In order to fully showcase his skills as a prospective webmaster and system analyst without restriction, Ronald made the decision to take his web design skills to the next level by producing his first set of dynamic web pages. He spent half of the summer of 2002 learning how to use PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor as the primary server scripting language and MySQL as the backend database management system for RDWonline Personal Website v3.0. This website served as Ronald's portfolio for admission to the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Indiana University, where he acquired his Master's degree in information science. Shortly after admittance to this program, Ronald worked on several other graduate school projects to extend his self-taught technical background to embrace information architectural theories and usability techniques, which he put to applicable use with RDWonline v5.00: The OmniFireball. That website was designed to not only usher in support for designing websites using W3C standards, but to represent Ronald's comprehensive prowess in harmoniously merging website design and development.

Over the course of about 20 months, Ronald took the time to rearchitect the entire PHP codebase from being 100% procedural and mixed code-with-content to a new implementation that would facilitate object-oriented functionality as well as the separation of PHP scripting from the user-interface as well as the debut usage of several technologies, including Ajax and JSON. The result was coined RDWonline v6.0: The Epoccontinuum. Two days after the release of this website, Ronald was made an offer at a position that allowed him to transition into the Microsoft technologies, which unfortunately needed to occur for him to remain marketable and competitive in the wonderful world of information technology. That summer Ronald has been taking a crash course in classic ASP, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C# 2005, ASP.NET 1.1/2.0 frameworks and SQL Server 2000/2005.

Ronald originally planned on developing the strategy for the next volume in the RDWonline series in fall 2008. However, inspiration and perseverance changed all that around December 2005, and only after 7 months after the release of the Epoccontinuum, Ronald commenced plans for Volume 7 of RDWonline. While the focus on the Epoccontinuum was primarily on the scripting redesign and databases, the design and development for RDWonline v7.0: The Seoquouloxolocadium leaned more on the design side, since a lot of the work need to separate out the sub-domains from the main website was done in Volume 6. In addition, Ronald always wanted to try out a design that would ideally fit in most screen resolutions without those users having to use their vertical scroll bar at all.

When Ronald is not putting in an assiduous number of hours on the computer, he enjoys going to the movies, listening to "non-commercialized" music, bowling, and hanging out at the local bookstores and cafés in town.