Contactize

Brought to you by iVersant (we speak Internet)

iVersant is the award winning web development company behind Contactize. In 2004, iVersant moved from Orlando to the booming Web 2.0 Internet startup town, Seattle. iVersant was formed by Paul Payne in 2003, and focuses on Web 2.0 services, development and strategy. iVersant works internationally within numerous industries with a heavy focus on Internet start-ups and large non-profit organizations.

Paul Payne, Founder & CEO

As the CEO of iVersant, Paul oversaw the successful production of deliverables to consulting and development clients in numerous industries.

Paul was also the Founder and CEO of MinistryHome.org. Paul oversaw the birth and subsequent development of this Seattle web startup with two simple ideas... "Websites should be easy to make" and "Non-profit workers who raise their own funds should use websites". Within two years, MinistryHome grew to serve more than 500 non-profit websites. In July 2006, Paul organized and successfully completed the sale of MinistryHome.

Prior to iVersant, Paul served as the CTO and Interim Director of the Innovation Center for Technology, a partnership between non-profit organizations and Silicon Valley institutions based at the Campus Crusade for Christ Headquarters in Orlando, FL. Paul provided key leadership and strategic vision for the founding of this organization.

Paul Payne, Lead Developer

Paul is a web software developer with a Mechanical Engineering degree and a passion for learning new technologies. His role at Contactize is to create the core infrastructure and most interesting and challenging features of our site.

Prior to his work with Contactize, Paul developed numerous web properties for iVersant, including the first social network for non-profit workers, MinistryHome.org.

Paul has a long chain of technology jobs beginning with the Mechanical Engineering computer lab at the University Nebraska in 1996 where he installed some WinSocks on Windows 3.1 so NCSA Mosaic could connect the engineering department to this new thing called the World Wide Web.

After serving as an Application Manager for a publishing company and designing a desktop application in Visual Basic for an auto exhaust chain, Paul learned ASP in two weeks and has never looked back. His first web development job gave him 4 years of J2EE/JSP experience. Afterwards he slimmed down to PHP. Most recently he has been hopping on the Ruby on Rails bandwagon and exploring new AJAX design and SOA methodologies.

Between projects, Paul enjoys Kung Fu and listening to KEXP.

Paul Payne, Designer

Paul is our design guru for all things Contactize. We’re very pleased with his design of the Contactize logo and even more importantly the product user interface design which he's been leading (borrowing heavy inspiration from other websites.)

As a freelance designer and project manager, Paul has designed and built Web sites, created logos, and produced collateral materials for websites since the WWW was born. Paul is happy to say he never used the <BLINK> tag. Paul knows Photoshop and Illustrator. Paul was an early adopter of going table-less when CSS still had sketchy support in most browsers.

While winning awards with his overall graphic design, his focus on clean, intuitive design helps ensure a great user experience. Paul analyzed and created expert UI reports for various websites on behalf of the Denstu Group.

In addition to web design, Paul is a Seattle-based artist working primarily with portraiture and figurative painting. Paul received a "Painting Foundations Certificate" from the Gage Academy of Fine Art in 2008.

Paul Payne, Intern

We are happy to have Paul working with Contactize. Not only does he make great espresso, but he takes care of all the mundane tasks nobody else wants to work on... including writing copy for this page! Thanks, Paul!