JR Mayhew
Co-Founder/Managing Partner Mr. Mayhew has remained on the forefront of the design and technology industry advancements throughout his career. Having started in the desktop publishing industry in the late 80’s, he has followed the progression of the industry with several ventures using various new media and interactive mediums to create marketing and business solutions. Having the unique ability to apply both fields of discipline to a client project, his creativity is reflected not only in design but also in the use of technology. Seeing this as a differentiation, in early 2000 he and two other partners founded their own interactive and traditional media agency – Cyfun Media.
Cyfun Media was created to provide companies a cohesive blend of design and technology that is capable of crossing many media formats. This is accomplished by combining creativity and real world experience from both disciplines. Cyfun Media services and product offerings are based on a common set problems all businesses face when attempting to communicate their message through a variety of media channels. By using our “Momentum Development” process we allow ideas to quickly go from “logo to logon.
Prior to Cyfun Media, JR Mayhew held eGulliver's Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder position, where he was responsible for the technology infrastructure and the eGulliver technology products. JR has a varied background in media and technology development. The eGulliver technology product matched online customers with actual travel Specialists who customized their leisure travel experience.
His travel experience began before eGulliver at Carlson Wagonlit Travel where he was in charge of new media development for their Associate Division. JR was the architect behind Carlson's Intranet and Internet sites and was responsible for site functionality, direct bookings systems, multi-party publishing applications and group cruise space applications.
Prior to Carlson, JR worked with Cadmus Interactive as a Producer where he was responsible for graphic design, site architecture, and developing multi-media programs for Fortune 500 companies. Before joining Cadmus interactive, JR held several managerial positions at A Beka Books Publishing where he developed educational CD-Roms and started an electronic prepress division. His experience has provided an excellent foundation for adapting traditional business practices and converting them into an electronic form. He holds an Executive Leadership degree from the University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Business, a BS degree in Computer Science, and a minor in Graphic Design from Pensacola Christian College.
Clint Backus
VP of Technology/Partner Mr. Backus, formerly was the Director of Technology of the ThePort.com, an internet startup company that focuses on building applications to build and foster communities. He is responsible for the server side application programming that ties in to a custom client that can be downloaded or distributed via CD-ROM.
Prior to that he was the Senior Programmer for Carlson Wagonlit Travel. There he was responsible for building the internet site, carlsontravel.com and also the extranet site for the CWT agents, Mercavia.com. He built applications for the sites that enabled distributed publishing and control of content of the sites. He also developed applications in the BackWeb platform that performed “push” messaging to over 5,000 agents. He was also responsible for programming intelligent agents that scoured the web for travel specials and made them available to the agencies for selling. This was done in the onDisplay development platform.
Over 4 years experience with development of CD-ROMs, presentations, interactive games, and internet development for many major corporations. Experienced in Perl, Java, C , Director Lingo, ASP, and several major development tools. Has designed and programmed many gaming programs in many different programming languages