About

Rayvan, LLC has been in business since 2002 with Sidney Rippetoe, and Ivan Alfaro co-founding the company while knocking out custom website projects on freelance sites like rentacoder.com or elance.com - We believe being small keeps you humble, and reliability hasn't been compromised with growing experience - And with that experience, we have also noticed that creating hundreds of successful websites per year isn't a problem when quality, and a 24/7 support is there for you.  Below are bios of people who may be heading your project:

Ivan Alfaro // Development Manager
As the Development Manager, Ivan sources work out to the team after clear-cutting all the details, scope, and time frames. Ivan has over a decade of experience in the field. He holds several certifications in both ends of web development, content management systems and online shopping carts. By regularly consulting and executing for various high profile clients.

He is also responsible for consulting, writing result-driven analysis, evaluations and time-to-live estimates.  A full summary of Ivan is available at his LinkedIn profile linked below.
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Sidney Rippetoe // Business Director
My name is Sidney Rippetoe, most folks call Sid, or Vicious (depends on my mood I suppose) 37 year old
Married with 3 outstanding blond extremely intelligent Daughters.
Career entrepreneur and part-time hardcore web developer since 2002.
I use to work in the construction field of business, a major health situation forced me to retire early. Seriously best thing thing that could ever happened to me, changed my world.
As a retired building contractor I have seen my share of the iron, steel and concrete to last any hardworking individual a lifetime.
After I retired from the steel trade industry I find myself enjoying life in a whole new inspiring light.
I enjoy spending as much possible time with my family, wife Jamie and 3 Daughters.
Ashley, Holli and Casey are now my world and most prominent priorities.

I do however still work hard on a regular basis working from home, since taking extensive courses on and College learning computers.
Also consisting of web systems and development since starting back in 2002.

Back then I found myself just wandering what all it meant and how it could be used as a means of
generating income.
That's when I met an eager teen by the name of Ivan Alfaro, he's all grown up now.
But it wasn't long before he was intrigued with building websites.
Since then we have started dot-com's, learned the Net and made a name for ourselves and ever since then been successful business partners.
I usually have a horrible habit of over-delivering when it comes to satisfying my customers needs (I somewhat of have an addiction to receiving praise). And will continue to do so till they give in, get down on their knees and beg for mercy.

Alicia Ragel // Account Executive
Alicia heads 60% of sales through her extensive list of networking & technical contacts.  Additionally, she is responsible for getting any support or update requests in the schedule or to the right department.

Ragel grew up in Alabama, and learned to be aggressive by her early-career objective to become an automotive technician. She gradually made it through the ranks with internships but she found that her skills can better be used running shops, instead of working them. After selling off 3 body shops - she took a year off to reflect her next objective. That objective involved web-based instructional repair videos, which later involved meeting Rayvan. And she's been a great addition to the team since.

Johann Lohrmann // Research & Development Consultant
Atlanta based Johann Lohrmann is a communications specialist with a passion for media. His love for media grew early, and by the time he was fourteen-years old he was writing for Children's Express-an organization that teaches children how to write, interview, and research. There he interviewed sports heroes and politicians.

In his senior year of high school, he produced his first short, An Era of Civil Rights. Later, he would write, direct, and produce documentaries for a PBS affiliate, serve as a media planner and research consultant to media companies, and conduct research throughout France, Canada and the United States.

Johann is equally focused and driven when it comes to giving back to the community. For the last ten years he has volunteered with an at-risk youth agency, tutored ESL students and used his communications expertise to help organize film festivals, coordinate volunteer events and even give lectures on research and communications strategies. Johann Lohrmann was recently nominated for an Emmy for his documentary, How I Survived World War II. It explored how soldiers, children and those who lived and served during World War II survived.

His mantra is – "does it work?" Which ties into a quote Johann chooses to live by:

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job. - Sir Winston Churchill