About Us CJIers

About Us

Christian James, Inc. is all about innovation and service! We started in a basement and have grown into a company that serves customers all over the world. We know what the journey is like. Our dedication to evolving our products and services is almost to the point of coffee-eyed insanity. We're geeky. We enjoy working late on Friday and Saturday nights creating new features for our growing customer base. We're very serious about what we do, but we have a lot of fun doing it. In fact, you may have noticed our marketing approach is a little different. There are many choices for you out there. But we hope you see that we're a unique company that is both creative and service oriented. We want to make a difference. If you do too, then join us! We promise to work as hard as we can for you.

If you want us to help you - call 866-287-5576


	Chris Peterson Chris is a geek, but not yet cool enough to really be a geek. He's a part-time geek. His position requires him to shy away from the Dew and to actually sit down for coffee with people. Chris rules CJI with an iron fist - many employees cry when he steps into the room. Some believe Chris is not from Earth because he wrote this and refers to himself in the third person.


	Laura Haapala-Peterson The non-geek side of CJI, Laura is able to cut the hair on the back of her own head. When not doing that, she invites everyone at the company to talk about their feelings. Once they do, streams of tears travel down their cheeks as they beam a cleansed smile. Laura gets a kick out of tap dancing while wind milling her arms to brighten the day. Laura would love to see a comeback of the bow and the curtsy. Handshakes are so germy.

Joe Rask

He works here now. Joe is average, but that doesn't stop him from helping PayGo customers. Joe also works as a cook because we pay him so little. In fact, management often goes to where he cooks and mocks the food he makes. They dress up in costumes to disguise their identity so he won't do bad things to their food.

Joe is a Guy Who Helps Customers Use PayGo.

Glenn Carlson

Glenn spends most of his time trying to convince the city of San Francisco to paint the Golden Gate Bridge gold. So far, he's been able to get a few renegade graphic designers to virtually paint the bridge its rightful color but he's not been able to get the attention of city officials capable of reality-based actions.

Glenn serves as an Advisor to CJI. He also reviews film of our bowling outings to make sure we're properly keeping score.


	Secret Advisor We have a spy-type advisor who was a former CEO for a software company in California and now he's one in Minnesota. We have not yet chosen to go public with information about his role in Christian James because we like the feeling of having a top-secret advisor. We could tell you who he is, but hiding secret identities gives us top secret feelings.

Carmen Prine

Carmen is a mighty power pack of energy who was able to make CJI HR reps beg her to come aboard.

She mastered the three day rule. We were lame nerds, calling her within the hour of our first interview "date." Did she bother to call back? No! She kept us waiting, and wondering!

"Does she like us?" "Will we ever see her again?" "Did we say something stupid?" - these were all things we asked each other as we pulled petals off of a daisy.

"She likes us..."
"She likes us not..."
"She likes us!"

Although she didn't believe in deciding fate by mutilating a flower, she feared that we might not keep it together unless she joined the team. YES!

Ana Benzer

Ana pulled up to her interview in a Big Foot like monster truck, driving over Charlie's car to get the ideal parking spot. We were impressed. It showed us that Ana was an eager person who settled for nothing less. In the interview, she even comforted Charlie as he cried about his crushed speedster. She had him giggling like a candy-mouthed kid in no time. Again we were impressed with her compassion. This type of person was made for getting PayGo out there to the masses.

Ana is head of the Lemonade Stand Business Federation, but business is slow, so she works at Christian James as a Sales Consultant. Call her at 866-287-5576 ext 1.

Sam Mottlow

The floor at CJI headquarters rumbled, then cracked and then Sam surfaced. He had tunneled his way to our company because he wanted to "shake" things up and have an original entry. We loved it.

To add excitement, the interviewers decided to leave the office and perform the interview over the phone... an originality comeback!

Sam answered all of our questions in his own, made-up language and then gave us a translated manuscript hi-lighting his correct answers. Perfecto! We hired him and now we have him on staff, teaching the world about PayGo. Call him at 866-287-5576 ext 1.

Colt Majkrzak

Colt started his career at CJI after he walked into the interview and said, "Don't waste my time. You going to hire me or not?" The HR folks at the time were scared and obliged by giving him the job and offering to iron his shirts.

It's been peachy ever since.

Colt develops the things our customers use.

Scott Maurer

Scott has dreamed of being part of the CJI team since he first saw our support team drive by his house as they made a dew run.

"It was like watching color TV for the first time!," said Scott. "I was so moved that I wrote a folk song and named it Support Aint Binary."

The tune went to number one on the PayGo charts and the next day, Scott was helping customers at his very own support workstation.

Kevin Burke

With marketing in his blood, Kevin decided that he'd show the CJI decision makers that he was the best man for the job.

He shaved his head and proceeded to have the PayGo logo tattooed onto the top of his head. Next, he hired a crane company to park their highest rig in our parking lot. Finally, he tied his feet to the crane with a bungee chord and just as we were approaching the building in the morning, he jumped head-first and yelled, "Watch OUT!"

We looked up and saw PayGo rushing at us!

Kevin is now working on a way to mass market PayGo via bungee jumping!

Charlie Goldberg

Charlie is our newest tech helper, but his entrance into the company was one wild time. Charlie holds a degree in History and he's so entrenched in it, he came to his interview dressed as our Founding Father, George Washington. (Wooden teeth and all!)

He proceeded to answer every question as if he were George Washington speaking to his troops at Valley Forge.

Because no interviewer had any historical knowledge, we simply hired him.

Matt Larson

Matt used to a be a PayGo customer. Basically, he used to call and harass us about everything from installing PayGo to the outfits we wear to work (typically, everyone here wears outfits much like what the Pilgrims wore)

After hours of contemplation, the heads of CJI determined that it would be better to bring Matt aboard the team and make him fix all the things he didn't like.

He is so busy now. Ha Ha. We are loving it. Revenge is sweet!

Wade Haupt

Wade is a Hulk worshipper who gets his strength when he gets really mad which only happens during football games and hopscotch.

Wade was introduced to the CJI decision-making team when he crashed through a wall in the CJI shipping area.

He made such a mess that we demanded that he clean it up. He rejected and then the wrath of the foreign head-lock was cast upon him.

He's been working here ever since against his druthers.


	Mike Steinkamp Mike provides behind-the-scenes expertise to Christian James, Inc. He handles our marketing needs. Mike once jumped in front of a train to save a PayGo user...luckily it was only a toy train. Mike doesn't know Bill Clinton, Hilary Swank or Eddie Murphy, but he does know the supreme art of snake-biting and graphic design.

Talented People

We are always looking for talented humans. If you can put your legs in the shape of the number four, close one eye, make a fist in your left hand and balance a laptop on your nose, we want to talk to you! If you can't do these things, we have some other tests that we can talk about.

Email your resume to jobs <at> christianjames.net to have us look you over and unfairly critique you because of your choice of fonts, spacing and cover letter attempts.

Other People

These are people who help us, but are so shy, that they don't want a billing.

If you want to learn more about these people, please fill out the "I want to know more about these other people" Requisition and send it to our HR department immediately.