The Omni Group

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  Ken Case — Founder, CEO

  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 the iPad editions of OmniGraffle, OmniFocus and OmniOutliner. 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 / Mac / iOS 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-five years (avoiding flame wars with either camp). Ken lives in Seattle with his wife of nineteen years, his two daughters (ages eleven and nine), and their cat (the spawn of Omni’s office cat).

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  Tim Wood — Founder, Vice President of Software Development

  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.

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  Molly Reed — Vice President of Operations

  Molly has a keen eye for detail and desire to optimize, which is good because she handles our finances, marketing, operations and user experience; she deals in what we call The Real World.

  For example she tries to prevent us from burning down the building during an attempt to combine the sports of Polo and Peep Jousting. If someone tries to break into the building at 3AM, she gets a call. Molly also makes sure we have insurance, in case we do attempt such an awesome a terrible idea as Peep Polo and hurt ourselves in the process.

  She is happiest when she is buried deep in the function catalogue of a spreadsheet. Molly recently earned her MBA from the University of Washington.

  Molly is a native Pacific Northwesterner that is actively offended by socks with sandals. Most here would say she has a shoe problem, though.

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  Grayson West — Marketing Coordinator

  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.

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  Kris Rapp

  If you’re looking for a needle in a hay stack, look no further - Kris is Omni’s resident extrovert. Originally from Los Angeles, he packed up his sunny disposition and headed north to live out his greener dreams in Seattle.

  Here’s the twist: after fleeing glamorous Hollywood, Kris landed at Omni and began making movies. Well, video tutorials of cinematic proportions, you might say. Or at least that’s his aim - to bring informative and enjoyable content to Omni’s loyal customers. When he’s not producing product videos, you’ll find him in downward-facing-dog pose at the local yoga joint, or rehearsing stupid pet tricks with his pup Southie. 

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  Troy Brandt

  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 building websites and other odds and ends here and there.

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  Derek Reiff

  In college, Derek did something with computers and journalism and running. Now, of course, he’s in Seattle. (Because why not?) Having lost both his wallet and favorite sweatshirt on two separate cross-country drives, we’re not letting him leave the 206 for the time being.

  His recent projects include trying to persuade others to go halves on a sailboat, drinking a few lattes, and building keg-o-rators designed for extra foam. 

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  Trish Abbate — Operations Coordinator

  Graduate student by night and Omni problem-fixer by day, Trish is a native New Yorker, avid cyclist, yoga-lover, world traveler, and founding member of the Green Lake Anti-defamation League. General consensus around the office is that Trish makes a great coworker, even better friend, and would be that nice neighbor who would water your plants while you’re on vacation, and not kill them.

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  Aaron Bendickson — System Administrator

  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 Needham — Operations Assistant

  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. 

  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.

• Terry Stearns — Executive Chef

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

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  Jordan Johnson — Kitchen Assistant

  Born to a walrus somewhere outside of Singapore in 1356, Jordan Johnson would quickly become known as “Skrabblebrabzle” which in Malaysian loosely translates to, “He who rains friendly kidney pie on all of your children’s toes.” in honor of the great deeds of pie showering he performed.

  Jordan resurfaces in historical text at the age of 20 leading an army of misfit children as they terrorize they streets of Paris stealing kidneys and selling them to the highest bidder. Eventually he was captured and imprisoned in the Bastille where he stayed for 6 months before he dug a tunnel out with a baugette. 

  Texts again get spotty at this time of his life but one archaeologist believes he has found multiple tapestries showing Jordan doing things like: spreading rats around densely populated European cities, jousting with nothing more then a halibut for a lance and butter churn for a helmet, and finally Jordan entering a box which then vanishes leaving behind a note that reads “SEEITH YE IN THE FUTURE!”

• Kristen Powell — Kitchen Assistant

  Born with a dollar and six dimes in Salto Angel Venezuela under the mountain Auyantepui, his mother mistook him for a girl and named him Kristen in a moment of confusion. When she realized her mistake she decided to move him to the ghettos of California, but he ran away from the ‘hood to the safety of Redondo Beach. When he found out about the life in Seattle he said to himself, “this is the last boat I will be on….”

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  Andrew Abernathy

  Andrew is mostly responsible for our spiffy online store, but has also worked on OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle and contributes to various of our products as a member of the user experience team. 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 was first able to program on NeXTstep around 1990, and was delighted to magically find himself a Mac developer after Apple bought NeXT at the end of 1996. He 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, but gets to focus on Omni’s own applications now that we have transitioned from consulting to consumer software.

  Coming as he does from the deep South, Andrew fails to appreciate the fine seafood on offer in Seattle, but wishes there were more good southern BBQ restaurants nearby, though the lack of sweet iced tea is probably good for him.

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  Tom Bunch

  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.

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  Curt Clifton

  Before joining Omni, Curt was already a long-time user of OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, and OmniFocus. He once procrastinated for three months on his PhD dissertation by writing OmniOutliner scripts to manage his task management system. Being a bright guy, the irony was not lost on him.

  Curt came to the Omni Group from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where he was an associate professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering. He wanted see how great software is made in the real world these days. It seems to involve great people, a passion for making beautiful things, and extraordinary amounts of coffee. Since he’s a fan of all three, he decided to stick around. At the Omni Group Curt is working primarily on OmniOutliner.

  Curt started his professional life as an electrical engineer with IBM and Procter & Gamble. After ensuring the uninterrupted supply of mouthwash for the free world, he decided to pursue his love of bits and bytes, earning his PhD in Computer Science from Iowa State University in 2005. When not programming, Curt can be found on the roads and trails around Seattle wearing out another pair of running shoes or hiking boots.

• Jim Correia

  Jim Correia is a 2003 summer blockbuster about a group of heroic scientists and their trip to the center of the earth to save the planet by detonating nuclear weapons. Oh wait, no… that’s “The Core”.

  Jim Correia is a roasted marshmallow and a piece of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker, traditionally enjoyed around a campfire. Oh wait, no… that’s a S’more.

  During his career, Jim Correia has written great code for the Omni Group, Bare Bones Software, and the SimCalc Project at the University of Massachusetts. He once spent a summer searching for exotic mesons. He also refuses to write a bio and recently took the shrink wrap off his bookcase.

• William Lewis

  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!

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  Ryan Patrick

  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.

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  Kyle Sluder

  Kyle comes to Omni from Loyola University Maryland, where he started as an Economics major and finished with a B.S. in Computer Science. He has been programming for most of his life, on projects ranging from web-delivered educational games to video game modifications. In his spare time, Kyle roams Seattle looking for free WiFi access points.

• Greg Titus

  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.

• Rachael Worthington

  Rachael’s a knitter, a D&Der, a video game player, a sports fan, a wife, a sister, a friend, and that crazy lady down the way. Also, sometimes the walking undead. Not often, though.

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  Kristina Sontag — QA Manager

  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.

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  Kam Dahlin

  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.

• Liz Marley

  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.

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  Derek Motonaga

  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.

• Joel Reuter

  Joel has lived in lots of places, all of which were West of the Mississippi. He thinks that Seattle is a great place to live, thanks to its beautiful landscape, delicious coffee, and nerdy inhabitants.  Music was his first love, and he continues to listen and learn over time.  Besides growing up with a Apple II, Joel was introduced to the Mac world in college, developing a Blackjack game in Objective-C and Cocoa.  Anything involving Torx screwdrivers and a soldering iron sounds like fun to him, even if he isn’t really sure what he’s doing with them.

• Dan Segars

  Dan’s roots are in the deep South. He graduated from the University of Alabama - hence his enjoyment of sweet tea - but he grew up all over the US of A as an Army brat. After meeting his beautiful wife in the Pacific Northwest he decided in 2002 to settle in Seattle.

  After leaving his professional soccer caree… wait, that didn’t happen, now, did it? Darn. Anyway, Dan came to the tech field with little more than just a passion to learn and to help technology be a joy for people to use. Dan is driven by quality, simplicity, and can also be found pointing out pesky bugs in Omni’s software.

  When he’s not working on Omni products, you can find Dan spending time with his family, playing guitar, kicking a soccer ball, or enjoying a delicious beverage. (Favorites include IPAs, glass-bottle-cane-sugar-taste-bud-pleasin’ Mexican Coke, and caramel lattes.) With three children under the age of seven, he tries to squeeze room in for sleep every once in a while.

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  Brian Covey — Support Manager

  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, has more affection for Portland* than Seattle despite living here for over a decade, 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 couple of seasons. It was a good thing they ended the show with that daring jump away from New Caprica. If the show had continued from there, it might have devolved into a boring show about feelings without any shooty-robot parts and would’ve had a hand-wavy, unsatisfying final episode. Man, we’re so lucky. That. Didn’t. Happen.

  By virtue of being hired before the rest of them, he ended up leading our dojo of elite support ninjas.

  * Pre-“Portlandia” Portland, that is. He looks forward to returning to his homeland once the hipster-bubble pops and it returns to not caring about being cool.

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  Jameson Brown

  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 our trio of OmniFoci editions.

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  Aaron Kwong

  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.

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  David Messent

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

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  Paul Palinkas

  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.

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  April Ramm

  April grew up in South Park (the Seattle neighborhood, not that other one on TV) as a mechanic’s daughter. She had to learn how to rebuild an engine before she was allowed to drive. She quickly realized that she liked fixing things but wasn’t so keen on the whole grease thing; computers seemed like a natural next step.

  Fast forward a few years, add a husband, three kids, and a dog. April thinks computers are cool, but traveling all over the country to fix them isn’t. She greatly prefers helping folks learn about our products.

  In her free time, she likes shows and movies about robots and spaceships, often when they’re making each other go Kaboom. Her favorite member of the X-men is Kurt Wagner; she also likes to do crafty things like woodworking, knitting, and sewing, especially while her husband is busy getting his Tyranid army ready for their next campaign.

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  Robyn Rosenberger

  Robyn is proud to hail from St. Louis (home of the Cardinals) but is happy to call Seattle home. When she’s not at Omni, she can usually be found with two red-headed boys and a camera in tow.

  While she used to film weddings and Bat Mitzvahs, these days her lenses are pointed at babies! She has a lifelong goal of publishing a memoir - published under a pseudonym, certainly - and thus tries to keep her life simultaneously interesting enough to be book-worthy and dull enough to live peacefully.

  She dreams of one day capturing a family’s life in a remote village on camera. She is irrationally terrified of spiders.

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  William Van Hecke — User Experience Lead

  “User Experience Lead” is the nebulous job of making software civilized enough to bring out in public. This involves lots of squinting six inches away from the Cinema Display at 3200% zoom and consulting etymology dictionaries to properly label buttons. It often ends up entwined with documentation, marketing, testing, customer support, and Dungeon Mastering too.

  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 also spends a prodigious amount of time in Tokyo, and has learned exotic foreign languages such as Dvorak, Python, and New Standard Tuning.

  When not shoveling pixels or graphemes, Bill likes creating video games, translating video games, and, occasionally, playing video games.

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  Joel Page

  If you need to know what that movie was that had the guy with the thing in it, Joel can likely tell you its title in a moment’s notice, along with who directed it and when it came out and who was originally going to play the guy with the thing. Joel knows lots of stuff like that, for instance he knows that the Skipper’s real name is Jonas Grumby. Fact.

  Preferring his coffee black and his whisky without the e, he spends a good deal of his time confined in a 24 x 24 pixel space (or thereabouts), ensuring that either strokes are used everywhere or not at all, and generally does a very good job forging obscure UI elements in OmniGraffle.

  Joel also has a number of enormously long eyebrow hairs.

The Omni Group is a successful and talented team working to increase the productivity and joy of our customers throughout the world with our suite of products for Macs, iPhones, and iPads. We are a long-lived company with a startup work ethic, staffed with a unique selection of talented, driven, and friendly people. Please send your résumé to resumes@omnigroup.com using a format you are sure we’ll be able to read, and we will send you an automatic acknowledgment so you can be sure we received it. Unless otherwise stated, all positions are for full-time employment in our lovely Seattle office. Check the specific job postings to see if the hiring manager has any additional submission requirements.

We spent our first decade working on consulting projects to help the best development environment survive and thrive. In our second decade, we’re building a suite of distinctive productivity applications; so far they have won three Macworld Editors’ Choice awards, a MacUser UK “Maxine” award, Macworld Expo Best of Show, two Mac Observer Editors’ Choice Awards, an iPhone Alley Editors’ Choice award, and five Apple Design awards. The Omni Group is a rewarding but nontraditional place to work, and our compensation packages reflect that. We offer the usual range of traditional benefits to employees:

But when we founded this business we knew that we were going to spend a ton of time here, so basic survival dictated that it should be fun as well as easy to work in. To those ends, we also have some less traditional benefits:

But, don’t get the impression we just goof around: it takes a lot of hard work to make our products a joy for our customers. Doing what we do, and doing it the way we choose to, is not easy. Luckily, we all love doing what we do, and we hope you will too.

Omni is located in rainy Seattle, possibly the most beautiful city in North America. The air here is still clean, the people still friendly, local brands are still more popular than national brands, and music festivals still feel like they are for the people.

You must be the sort of person who can see the glamor in any project if it helps Omni to succeed! We are looking for someone who is smart, but not conceited. If you think you know all the answers, we’re not interested. If you think you know some of the questions, send us a résumé. We don’t put up with big individual egos, although we fully admit to having a big collective ego. You must be a team player. You must, must, must be self-motivating. We don’t discriminate based on anything that would upset you, like race, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We won’t hire anyone who’s on the planet without a visa, though.

Some of the source code which we've written for our Mac OS X and iPhone applications is available for use under the terms specified in the Omni Source License (basically the MIT license). We have not yet provided any formal documentation, though the source code does include a limited amount of internal documentation.

OmniBase

OmniBase is the lowest level framework in the Omni framework suite, used by every product we ship. OmniBase provides a series of debugging aids for class allocation and initialization, an alternative assertions mechanism, several Objective-C runtime manipulation aids, and a very reliable, cross-platform implementation of +load (called +didLoad).

OmniFoundation

OmniFoundation is our extension to Apple’s Foundation framework. Besides several extremely useful extensions to Apple Foundation classes, OmniFoundation provides a horde of unique and powerful classes. Among the more interesting are:

• OFStringScanner - A blindingly fast Unicode-safe alternative to NSStringScanner, for when you really need to burn through those character streams.
• OFRegularExpression - Powerful regular expression processing wrapped in an Objective-C shell. Combine with OFStringScanner for extra fun.
• OFTrie - Implementation of the popular trie data structure. Interfaces to OFStringScanner for rapid scanning of “longest” token elements.
• OFMessageQueue & OFQueueProcessor - Writing stable multithreaded applications is an error prone process. These classes help de-fang the savage beast.

OmniFoundation is a veritable treasure chest of programming goodies. Take a look for yourself.

OmniDataObjects

OmniDataObjects provides a CoreData-like API, but with a much smaller feature set (and thus implementation). Built on top of SQLite, OmniDataObjects provides the persistence for OmniFocus on the Mac and iPhone.

OmniAppKit

OmniAppKit is our set of extensions to Apple’s AppKit.framework, full of cool stuff to make Mac OS X application development even easier. Some highlights:

• AppleScript - OAOSAScript makes it super-easy to run AppleScripts from within a Cocoa app, and companion classes introduce features such as automatically populated script menus, scripts on toolbars, and extensions to the Text suite allowing scripters to manipulate rich text.
• OAPreferences - An architecture for building multi-pane Preferences windows. All you need to do is write the individual preference panes (which is quite easy) and OAPreferences will automatically generate an appropriate Preferences window ? one like System Prefrences if you have lots of panes, or one like Mail’s Preferences window if you only have a few.
• OAFindPanel - Apple has a standardized architecture for Find in applications, but they leave implementing it entirely up to developers. OmniAppKit provides a powerful Find & Replace panel and a protocol for easily making widgets and documents in your app searchable. OmniAppKit also includes lots of extensions to Apple’s classes to make creating rich user interfaces much easier.

OmniInspector

Omni’s inspector framework as seen in OmniGraffle, OmniFocus, OmniOutliner and OmniPlan!

OmniNetworking

OmniNetworking provides a simple and extensible Objective-C wrapper to a multitude of complex networking constructs. Communication over several internet standard protocols is supported, including TCP, UDP and Multicast. Writing a simple FTP client, or custom TCP/IP-based server program becomes a trivial task using OmniNetworking.

License

Omni Source Code software is available from The Omni Group on their web site at www.omnigroup.com. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: Any original copyright notices and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.