Jake

The cofounder of Sweet Onion Creations, Jake hails from Buffalo, Wyoming. He attended Drury University in Springfield, Missouri and earned a BA in Physics and an MA in Marketing Communications. Prior to founding Sweet Onion he worked in the software and outdoor industries and did marketing consulting work for various companies ranging from small startups to Microsoft. He splits his time between working with clients, researching new ways to show designs, playing with search engine optimization, and updating the blog. He loves to sand tiny little buildings (seriously). Always a stickler for the utmost quality in any medium, he has a hunch that most people secretly struggle to understand 2D plans and hopes Sweet Onion can provide a few tools to ease the confusion.

Ed

Ed Herman has built architectural and topographic models professionally for clients in virtually every sector including U.S. military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, CBS Studios, Don King Productions, government agencies in countries like Dubai, Nigeria, and the U.K., as well as countless domestic architectural and development firms. He's found that across the board the story is the same; people connect with concrete information and nothing delivers that information as effectively as a 3D scale model. At Sweet Onion Creations, Ed heads up a sonic boom in technology that is allowing ideas to come alive in ways that were simply unheard of twenty years ago. Instead of replacing traditional hands-on methods, he integrates these timeless skills with advances in digital fabrication (3D printing, laser cutting, CNC'ing) into a cohesive model building approach - resulting in the best of both worlds.

An up and coming outdoorsman, Ed is getting the hang of fly-fishing and can be found hiking various trails around Southwest Montana.

Wayne

Creating design visualization imagery has always been Wayne’s passion. Though technology is providing tools to pursue this passion in a more visually stunning way, Wayne knows that successful imagery demands traditional fine art talent and an eye for the interesting. Having worked as an architectural illustrator and CAD manager (and winning a few awards in the process) at one of Bozeman’s largest architecture firms for 11 years, he understands how to effectively communicate, market, and push a successful design forward. From working on architectural projects to teaming up with Autodesk, IDEO, and the Biomimicry Institute to animate how bees select a new hive, Wayne can create and make just about anything come alive on a computer screen.

An avid and accomplished climber, Wayne can be found dangling from various rock cliffs in his free time with his faithful black lab, Bear, on belay.

Brett

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Brett headed west and became a Buff at the University of Colorado in Boulder. After graduating with a BS in astrophysics, Brett started his career as an Aerospace Engineer at Ball Aerospace. However, he discovered the web and his entrepreneurial spirit. Employee #3 at IdealBite, he was responsible for ensuring their 250K+ email subscribers around the globe got their daily "Bite". The company went on to be nominated as one of Time magazine's Top 50 websites for 2007 (#28 respectively). Brett's unique combination of experience and skills on both the technical and development/strategy fronts lent him to make the switch to web start-ups. Drawing on his background in doing PHP and Javascript development, along with social media strategy, Brett has that rare perspective on what it takes to make a "back-end" engine of a website work and what the return on investment is from a marketing perspective.

Brett has biked the Continental Divide from Canada to Mexico and spends his free time collecting and fixing bikes and sipping fine tequilas.

Lee

As cofounder of Sweet Onion Creations, Lee’s responsibilities range from CFO to custodial engineer. A Bozeman native, she attended undergraduate and graduate school in Illinois and Missouri for Journalism from Southern Illinois University and an MA in Marketing Communications from Drury University before coming back home to play outside. Not blessed with spacial orientation, Lee likes to have a model in hand to understand designs. A pro with a palette knife when it comes to sanding, she has a prowess for depowdering delicate models powered by her iPod Shuffle and King’s of Leon.