Ken Case is Chairman and CEO of the Omni Group, which he founded with Tim Wood and Wil Shipley. Ken is a computer geek at heart, and continues to contribute directly to all of Omni's products as an interface designer and software engineer, most recently working on OmniFocus. Before founding Omni in 1992, Ken worked as an application programmer for NeXT, a systems programmer for the University of Washington, and a systems administrator for both the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry and Statistical Sciences, Inc.

During his early career he developed software for over eighteen operating systems, but since finding the NeXT (now Macintosh) platform he's been happy to focus on the platform which he feels makes our team the most productive. He's contributed free source code to the net throughout his career, and has used both emacs and vi daily for over twenty years (avoiding flame wars with either camp). Ken lives in Seattle with his wife of fifteen years, his two daughters (ages eight and five), and two cats (the spawn of Omni's office cat).

Tim graduated from the University of Washington with two bachelor's degrees, Computer Science and Pure Mathematics. After a long stint consulting for Fortune 500 companies, followed by a shorter one doing game ports, Tim is joyously immersed in growing Mac OS X consumer software. Tim is the team lead for OmniFocus and OmniOutliner as well as working on the Omni Frameworks and serving as the Vice President of Software Development.

Tim lives in Seattle with his wife, son, and daughter.

Andrew is a member of the OmniOutliner 3.0 team and is mostly responsible for our spiffy on-line store. In his past, Andrew wrote traffic control systems software for five years before escaping VMS, DOS and Atlanta. His flight took him to Seattle where he worked on AT&T Cellular Services' NeXTstep-based cellular offerings software for a year and a half before landing at Omni.

Andrew has been programming since the early eighties (which also explains his taste in music). He started programming on NeXTstep around 1990, and has been heavily involved in WebObjects development since 1997. He has worked on major consulting projects in Omni's past, including AirMail, a NeXTstep-based OpenMail client, Standard & Poor's Personal Wealth and the YourSchoolShop.com and GreaterGood.com cause-based web sites.

He steadfastly refuses to like Thai food or sushi, much to the consternation of his Omni peers.

In 1995, Tom abdicated his position as a research consultant at the University of Washington, where his responsibilities included saving Pacific Northwest salmon stocks from near certain extinction. Publicly, he'll tell you that his reasons for leaving such a heroic and selfless job basically stem from disillusionment with senators Ted Stevens and Slade Gorton from Alaska and Washington, respectively, who corrupted Tom's science from "how can we help these species recover" to "what's the largest number of fish I can I kill and still maybe get away with it?". His decision had nothing to do with money or groupies. Honest.

Since joining Omni at that time, Tom's major clients have included Standard & Poors, Adobe Systems, Inc., Food.com, and MacPlay, Inc. Tom was recently placed in charge of the sheep dip, and is at present diligently installing bugs in OmniPlan to keep Mr. Kwong busy. In his spare time, he can be found in the North Cascades, leaping from tree to tree.

One of the latest refugees from the world of academia, Rowan joined the group after life as a graduate student looking to get a doctorate at the University of Washington's Biomolecular Structure & Design program. His prior stint as a computational biologist at the UW, and later at the Institute for Systems Biology, trained Rowan in the skills of programming. After working on things like the Human Genome Project, Peroxisome Biogenesis, Microarrays, Proteomics, DNA Sequencing, and other fancy-sounding things, he realized that he what he really enjoyed was making software that people would use to analyze their data, and coming up with fancy ways to display and interact with data.

Once he realized that making useful programs was more enjoyable than researching biology, Rowan joined The Omni Group where he is hard at work on products that can be used by all sorts of people to create, store, and view all sorts of data.

Rowan is also into things that have funny names like "Ultimate Frisbee" and "Telemarking". The latter is not phoning people at dinner time, but is in fact a style of skiing that requires far more effort and is much slower than using the more popular fixed-heel rigs the kids use these days.

Wim is afraid of both cameras and bios. ← That's pretty much all this web page has ever said about Wim, but recently we learned some interesting information about Wim's childhood that we thought we would share. Years ago, a youthful and enterprising Wim installed a theremin behind a wall in his family's home - then he wired it into their intercom system. Whenever an unsuspecting victim would walk by, the instrument would come to life, filling the house with eerie wails.

Now you know something about Wim, and, if you're like some of us, you've learned what a theremin is. Hooray!

Ryan was born and raised in Syracuse, NY which explains why he thinks that Seattle has fabulous weather year-round. In a previous life, he was a mechanical engineer and spent a few years designing airplane engines (so, yes, you should be afraid to fly). After realizing that he enjoyed algorithms and conditional loops over gears and coefficients of friction, Ryan went back to school and got his Masters in CS from George Washington University in 2003.

When not programming, Ryan can be found outside on either a trail or a bike.

He works so that he can support his soccer habit and is still expecting a call from the national team.

Robin started programming for Mac OS X during his first year at Williams College, when he discovered that there was no good software for making economics-style graphs. After doing research in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and information retrieval, he decided all of that was boring compared to sketching graphs, and wrote his MIT masters thesis on what had become a five-year "side project."

Robin could not be happier that he and his graph sketching pursuits have found a new home at Omni, where he is now the lead developer on OmniGraphSketcher. He can generally be found drawing on whiteboards, walking through the nearby hills, jogging home from work, preparing to become a yoga master, and watching helplessly as pop-culture references fly over his head.

Rachael grew up in California, and no, she can't surf, doesn't run in slow-mo and isn't not blond (except at heart). She went to the University of the Pacific, originally as a Mechanical Engineering major on the 5-year plan (yeah they really have those), but had a change of heart at the end of her second year, after a combination of Dynamics (ew), Thermodynamics (more ew), Material Science (ew-factor 10), and Intro to C (oooh... spiffy...) convinced her that engineering just wasn't her thing, and that she should look for something she enjoyed rather than dreaded.

Since graduation she's been bumming around doing full-time work at part-time wages at a law firm supporting their network and helping with a database conversion, until one fateful day she ran into Ken at MWSF where he mentioned that Omni was hiring and informed her that he expected her resume that evening. She missed the deadline, but did manage to get one in, and ended up picking up shop and moving 800 miles north to chase the opportunity to do something fun and exciting. So, here she is, adjusting to 90% rain instead of 90% sun, hills instead of miles of straight road, parking spots that couldn't fit a Yugo, let alone her Toyota, and a coffee-shop on every corner. Culture shock... here she comes.

Greg Titus is currently development lead on OmniPlan, after spending much of his time before that on OmniGraffle 2, 3, and 4.

Greg joined Omni Development in late 1993, just after the company was incorporated. He came to Omni after four years at Microsoft, where he concentrated on software development tools and internet applications, helping to develop automated system testing software for OS/2 and Windows 3.1, internet FTP and SMTP servers for Windows NT, and designing a debugger of distributed object-oriented programs for the cancelled Cairo operating system.

In his Omni-past, Greg initially specialized in index and database optimization, doing web indexing work for both InfoSeek (now Go.com) and Excite, and implementation of a third-tier database caching architecture for AT&T Wireless Services. Greg has led analysis, design, and development for many of Omni's past custom consulting projects, including Personal Wealth, Greater Good, and Enterprise Co-op.

"User Experience Lead" is the nebulous job of making sure Omni products treat their users like human beings. This involves researching whether "browsable" is a real word (it is), judiciously doling out punctuation marks (semicolons for everyone), and agonizing over how graphical interfaces should look (move that checkbox over two pixels).

Bill has lived near Chicago, where he wrote odd code for companies on the Board of Trade, and in Green Bay, where he operated nocturnally for a year. He spends a prodigious amount of time in Tokyo, where he has learned exotic foreign languages such as Dvorak.

When not wrangling words or pixels, Bill likes improving his amateurish espresso technique, petting the cat, or watching "hat dramas" with Andrew.

Troy grew up near Seattle and has always known that this is the town for him. Keeping with the spirit of Seattle he fell in love with music and has devoted much of his studies to writing, performing and recording music. He has an "art" school degree in Audio Production where he learned the art of knob twiddling and that dynamic compression is way cooler than boring overused digital effects. Somehow, he wound up with us here at Omni where he currently spends his days trying to make our code blow up and serving as the Product Manager for both OmniWeb and OmniDazzle.

Kam comes from a background of professional audio engineering and production. He spent eight of his nearly ten year career, recording, mixing, editing, and building studios on land and at sea for Vulcan Inc. During this time, Kam worked on the music software DrumCore and its little brother KitCore, did his best to maintain recording systems in differing time zones, and generally tried to find the cleanest way to wrangle sound waves into 1s and 0s. After Vulcan Kam started his own residential systems integration company, but quickly decided that food and shelter were important - he was fortunate enough to then find Omni. Today he can be found in a dark office critiquing and breaking others' hard work.

During his off hours Kam does AV integration and design work and tries to manage two rowdy little boys.

He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and prefers music that hasn't been smashed and squeezed to bits.

Harvey Mudd College tried to teach Liz Computer Science, but each program she touched turned to bugs and crashes. Turning this liability into an asset, she began software testing in that state run by an Austrian movie star. But when she had hummed "I miss the rains down in Africa" a few too many times, she realized she had to leave the desert. Now in Seattle, she has an exciting career using our software way, way before we're finished writing it.

Derek is well-loved by all of us here at Omni, but seems to be particularly well-loved by Lotus, our office cat. In fact, he's so well-loved that we've dubbed him "Mister Tunapants". Seriously, the wake that cat leaves as she bounds through the office towards Derek's lap could snap your neck if you're not careful. Derek also likes robots a whole bunch and plays a lot of World of Warcraft. He spends his time here figuring out how to break our software and refusing to write his own bio.

Growing up in Northern California, Kristina's love for science and technology was forcibly nurtured by the educational nature of every toy and game her mother bought her. Kristina decided "when life gives you typing tutors and math blasters you should just code your own games", spending many childhood hours hunched over her keyboard learning the basics of BASIC.

Taking a summer job testing software at LucasArts Games while in college, Kristina turned her love of technology into a career spanning three states and many different areas of the computer industry. At Omni she can be found crashing software and tricking Lotus the office cat into a pedicure.

Molly usually keeps busy making sure that everyone gets paid on time and that the building doesn't float away in our famous Seattle rain. In her free time, Molly enjoys being protected by her enormous attack dog, Bella.

A native New Yorker, Trish bid farewell to good pizza and bagels in exchange for good coffee and bicycles when she came to Seattle 3 years ago. Before that she kept busy studying Psychology alongside Geology in college, and then lived for a time in London where she developed a case of Anglophilia which has only recently begun to dissipate. Here at Omni she can be found invoicing customers and ensuring we don't freeze to death after sticking a cinema display directly under a thermostat.

Aaron came to Omni by way of Tacoma Washington, Missoula Montana, Boston Massachusetts, and eventually Tacoma again. He and his family recently moved to Seattle in order to reduce his commute to a reasonable level. Like most sys-admin types he lacks any inclination towards graphic design and though he can effortlessly install, configure, backup and maintain any website you throw at him... don't expect him to be able to make it LOOK good. A significant portion of his free time is dedicated to the making of music, which occasionally carries the added bonus of being mildly profitable. However, he's learning that late night blues gigs don't mix well with his young children's sleeping habits. Sleep deprivation is a way of life... isn't it?

Likes: The Simpsons (prerequisite for being a sys-admin), good coffee (black, none of those foofy drinks), Battlestar Galactica (duh), vi, Strongbad Emails, and Moose Drool

Dislikes: text messages, poorly adjusted flat-panel televisions with the picture all stretched out, World of Warcraft (sssh... don't tell anyone at Omni or they'll probably fire him), and commuting.

Tami somehow entered the realms of Omni without ever having heard of Battlestar Galactica or playing World of Warcraft. Prior to her Omni days, Tami studied Psychology at Seattle Pacific University. Before coming to Omni, Tami spent her days doing stuff like working with troubled adolescent boys and becoming a certified bra fitter at Nordstrom's.

She has a green Jeep Wrangler named Jewel that occasionally carries her long distances through the ridiculous winter we seem to be having. She organizes "boutique-style" yard sales, but refuses to define what "boutique-style" means, so we're going to assume it means cookies. She also hand-makes greeting cards, blogging about this and other topics at http://www.tamilynndesigns.com/.

Like the three-headed dog Cerberus of greek mythology, Tami fiercely defends our gates, protecting us from scary folk like the UPS delivery man. She demonstrates her awesomeness by doing so with two fewer heads.

From tater tots to roasted salmon with a carrot vinaigrette, Terry keeps the OMNI engine running with his tasty treats.

Linda wrangles Omni's marketing communications, PR, and advertising, despite a bad habit of sending out press releases of dubious quality that contain the term "mumbo jumbo". She is one of the contributors to the Omni Blog, which explains all those dorky Simpsons references.

When she's not in the office, Linda can often be found prying her toddler sons away from the various dangerous objects they seem to be magnetically drawn towards. She greatly enjoys Warren Ellis comic books, movies featuring zombies, and individually wrapped Starlight mints.

Grayson hails from the south coast of Oregon. A competitive cyclist since the age of 14, Grayson dropped out of college after one year and pursued a career as a professional cyclist. That dream culminated in two years of amateur racing in Belgium, France and Holland. After falling short of his dream of a professional cycling glory, due to a broken femur while racing in France, Grayson went back to America to discover what he wanted to do with his life.

After healing near the beaches of San Clemente California, Grayson decided to surf his days away along the Pacific Coast of North and Central America. But after soon discovering that playing the ocean did not pay the bills, he found himself back at college studying the arts. He attended Savannah College of Art and Design and Northern Arizona University, where he received his B.F.A. in visual communication.

At Omni, Grayson does graphic design for marketing materials including retail packaging, promotional materials, website graphics, advertising, and more.

Brian is something of an anomaly amongst the members of The Omni Group, since he didn't enter college until well after he could legally operate a motor vehicle, thinks that Portland is still far cooler than Seattle, and believes that Babylon 5, not Star Wars, is the definitive science fiction work of the latter half of the twentieth century. (Firefly, of course, is the first great work of the twenty-first, though Battlestar Galactica was comin' on strong for a season or two.) These deadly secrets will undoubtedly destroy him should they ever be discovered, so guard them well, my friend.

By virtue of being hired before the rest of them, he ended up leading our dojo of elite support ninjas. He's also in charge of the QA department, but couldn't think of a way to make that clear without dragging those folks all the way down to the bottom of the page, moving the support section up, or otherwise redesigning the whole darn page. That seemed like a lot of trouble for a little ego-buffing, so instead he just mumbles to himself textually in public.

Jameson is yet another transplant from NYC (though he grew up in the quaint tourist town of Saratoga Springs), where he misses good Italian food and a decent public transit system, but not the lingering smell of hot garbage in the summer. He originally went to school for audio engineering, and worked at an audio post-production house in Manhattan before getting into the support business. He currently enjoys making music with his trusty laptop and, like every bored child of the suburbs, has a soft spot for video games of the 80's and early 90's.

When not discovering new ways to enjoy bacon, Jameson answers e-mail for OmniFocus and OmniFocus for the iPhone.

Aaron is curiously free of any really identifiable quirks that are easy to make fun of on the Internet, so we've decided he's a Stepford Robot, or maybe that guy from Westworld. He comes to us most recently from an Apple retail store. He's really happy that he'll never have anyone throw an iPod at him ever again. He does have the unfortunate character flaw of being unable to write his own bio for websites, but we overlook that, since he spends his time answering OmniPlan email.

Dave answers support email for OmniWeb. Born and raised in Seattle, he enjoys a quiet life at home with his wife and growing ukulele collection. Prior to joining Omni, Dave made coffee and powerpoints about mobile phones (though not at the same time).

Joel is a level 80 dwarf warrior very fond of bladestorming his enemies. When not fighting the good fight in Wintergrasp or remaining vigilant against the foul agents of Arthas Menethil the Lich King, he can be found on the fringes of Northrend, ever searching for valuable metals, minerals, and gems.

He dislikes the constant crowds in Dalaran City, preferring the quiet of Frosthold and the Storm Peaks and thinks that elves are big sissies, making cookies for that Keebler fellow and toys for a certain Mr. Claus. He also knows an awful lot about OmniGraffle.

Paul Palinkas is a ninja and a gentleman, answering support email for OmniGraffle and listening politely to people who like to talk about World of Warcraft. Paul also enjoys music with handclaps and harmonies, playing pinball, and Bob Clampett's cartoons. Sometimes he wishes it could be 1965 again.

Kris’s reputation has a tendency of preceding him — he earned the nickname ‘Hollywood’ from the Omni Group in his first week, without any early indication of Diva-like behavior. He admits that it was a fair assumption to make given his penchant for irony and glamor; Kris hails from Los Angeles, where both are abundant (and not mutually exclusive). Currently pursuing his black belt in Support Ninja Aikido, he’s greeting the challenge in the same way he is assimilating to life in Seattle: with a sunny disposition and routine doses of tanning bed Vitamin D.

Derek recently moved here from Indiana, has an awesome (but high-maintenance) dog, and looks exactly like a college version of the Horn-Rimmed-Glasses guy from "Heroes". He spends his time helping customers.

Monica is a Southern expatriate, Collage and Decoupage Artist, cacti and succulent collector, major bookworm, hermit, and avid player of PS3 games such as Condemned, Dark Sector and Resident Evil. (Let's not forget Oblivion, where she ended the game as a Level 29 Champion of Cyrodill whose side-job was Head of both the Black Hand Assassin's guild and the Thieves’ Guild!).

She is also the proud mom of a skittish Italian Greyhound named Sir Maus.