Mark Wayne-Hart is a native of West St Paul, MN, born south of the river on South Robert Street in 1963.

Raised in Stillwater, MN, Mark Wayne Hart was sent to a private religious school in St Paul during his elementary years. At the age of four, he was amazed by the idea that one could simply look at black dots on a piece of paper and make music. By the age of six, he demanded piano lessons, and he taught himself everything on the subject. On his eighth birthday, he received a home-schooling piano lesson system to help with the fundamentals. He studied, practiced and played constantly. At the age of twelve, he was transposing musical score in his head while playing the entire score.  His father, a gifted musician, would coach the boy and while arriving at the last few measures of the sheet-music he would shout out: “Again!  …This time in the key of E-Flat!”.

Hart not only transpose the chord, but he could replay the entire piece in… “E-Flat”.

Mark also began teaching himself other musical instruments and styles, including the trombone, the guitar, the violin and the trumpet. He challenged himself with a personal goal: If I can pick up an instrument, play the musical piece as written – and then play the same piece in any key on-demand, without mistake… the instrument was no longer a challenge and rendered irrelevant. 

From musical arts to media – Mark gravitated towards paints, print and plaster. As a junior high student, he worked part-time at various fast-food restaurants to pay for art lessons where he studied oil-on-canvas, ink on paper, porcelain and plaster.  He bought green-ware pottery, painted, glazed, kilned and sold his work to pay for more classes.  He peddled a wheel to score clay pieces that he transformed into water-pitchers and soup tourines that he sold to ladies at his church. He’d roll rabbit-hair around wooden sticks to make paint brushes for oil paintings.

Mark served his country as a Security Police Officer in the United States Air Force, and was Honorably Discharged with medals in July 1987.  A year before his discharged, he was assigned to design an on-line system for the 22nd Security Police Squadron, March AFB, Riverside, California. That become his first professional job at a  computer keyboard.  Trading his M-16 semi-automatic rifle for a Zenith desktop computer and at 12″ floppy-disk drive, Sgt Hart looked a IT in a whole new way; “making computers talk to each other”.

After  the Air Force, Mark headed to New Orleans, LA where he studied I.T.  at Tulane University.  Fascinated by the idea of computer-networking and inter-connectivity of human interests combined with IT, Mark began to explore the artistic-license between performance art, information-technology and applied arts.  Two years later, he vanished from New Orleans night-life and registered his studies at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL where he finished his degree in 1988.

He began to work for a federally funded non-profit organization in education research and development called SERVE (South Eastern Regional Vision for Education).  As the organization’s IT Director, Mark designed a dial-up system for public school teachers available throughout North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Alabama.  In 1994, he reported to the US Department of Education that his computer-network,  “SERVE-Line” had over 65,000 end-users.  At the end of the five year contract, SERVE-Line had over 100,000 souls accessing the system.

In 1997, Mark returned to his home state of Minnesota and found work at the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN where he hammered out the largest micro-computer project the Mayo Foundation had ever embarked on: DDS or “Digital Dictation”.  It was a computer network that tied voice-over-IP (VOIP) and digital dictation into on cohesive network.  In 1999, he was the IT Manager for the University of Minnesota Department of Police.

Wayne-Hart decided to return to his artistic roots and merge them with his IT skills.  In 2007, he and his partner Bruce created Associated Partners of Minnesota LLC and doing business as (d.b.a.) “Web EnK”.

Web EnK is a certified US Veteran Owned Small Business with a DUNS number of 831495713, NAICS number of 541511 and an SIC: 7371. Web EnK’s CAGE number is 5PXD6. Feel free to download Web EnK’s Capabilities Statement here. (It is in a PDF format.)

Today, Mark’s reputation throughout the national as well as the Twin Cities area is unmatched for creativity, resourcefulness, design and IT savvy skills.  A majority of the work is from “orphaned projects”; projects abandoned by others who needs the current site to be cleaned up and production ready.

So,  “What exactly is ‘Web EnK’?”  In the late 1980′s, the Internet was virtually unknown outside of the Federal Government, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Academia here in the US and Canada. People who were on the Internet identified themselves with “handles”, much like the C.B. radio of the late-1970s early 1980′s.  There were feasibility studies looking at encrypting data being transmitted over TCP/IP, or the Internet.  In 1991, Mark attending a conference where a gentleman named Phil Zimmermann was discussing an idea he called “PGP”, or Pretty Good Privacy.    In short; the idea of transmitting private social security and credit card numbers over the Internet.  Relaxing in front of the television watching his favorite show; HBO’s “Tales From The Crypt”, he found himself reviewing the information from the conference.  It was a twisted thought between socialized Internat access hybrid with privatized capitalistic markets.That’s when he took on the moniker “EnKrypt”, as a portmantau for “Encryption” and “The Crypt Keeper”.

Hart (Wayne-Hart) “owns” the moniker for all of the relative systems today for all of the wrong reasons. “enkrypt AT hotmail.com” and “enkrypt AT aol.com”.    The term “Web EnK” is simply a “version 2.0″ of the original moniker.    The company’s tag line is: “…Because the EnK is mightier than the pen.” is a simple play-on-words.