Fred Abler
Principal & CEO

Fred Abler was educated and trained as a professional architect at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. He has worked in the software industry for more than 15 years, holding several research & development positions related to intelligent spatial decision support systems, including those used in logistics, architecture, and facilities management. His interests include spatial representation, object-agents, and digital design communication. He started FormFonts because he saw a large unmet need for "off the shelf geometry"   that could support all types of virtual world-making.

Fred, and his wife Vivian live on the Central coast in a house he designed using SketchUp.

Marc Fredrickson
First Officer

Marc Fredrickson has worked in the video game industry for 11 years for Angel Studios and Rockstar San Diego. He has worked on many multi-million-unit seller games such as Midnight Club II and Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition. Marc has held the positions of artist, Art Lead, Environment Designer and assistant to the Art Department Director before migrating to the game design side of development with the roles of Level Designer, Game Designer and Game Design Department Director. He is an alumnus of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo (BArch 1990). After graduating, Marc worked as a junior architectural designer in Sacramento, CA for several years before earning a Masters of Architecture at University of California, San Diego in 1994. Upon graduation Marc received an architect's license shortly before joining Angel Studios, Carlsbad, CA, which at the time was starting to produce 3-dimensional video games for the Nintendo game platform N64. His main focus throughout his tenure has been the design of 3D urban environments for game design-playability and 3D art requirements.

Marc lives in San Diego, CA with his wife and cat. They're currently building a house designed in SketchUp and staged with FormFonts models.

Alan Fraser
Director of Quality Control, & 3D Artist

Alan Fraser trained in graphic design and started work in education, doing illustrations on the side until 1990, when he went into freelance illustration full-time. His work is mostly book covers and children's books. Alan started doing more work on the computer, first in vector drawing programs like CorelDraw, and then moved into 3D. He finds SketchUp perfect for such work, with its simple, illustrative style of rendering.

Alan is married with two kids (one of each) and he lives in Formby, a small coastal town on the Lancashire coast just north of Liverpool, England.

Tony Casparro
CTO, WebMaster

Tony Casparro has been a professional web developer for four years, working with such companies as Amgen, Cisco Systems, Displaytronix, and the CAL POLY Foundation.  He has worked with almost every web scripting language and database backend, creating some truly unique web-based applications.  He earned his degree in computer engineering from California Polytechnic State University , SLO in 2005 while also running a consulting business from his home. His hobbies include KiteBoarding and digital art design.

Tony is newly married and lives with his wife in San Luis Obispo, California .

Nino Alvarez
3D Artist

Nino Alvarez is a Registered Architect. Received a bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of Notre Dame. Initiated his career with IBM in Burlington, Vermont. Was relocated to Boca Ratón, Florida, where he was first exposed to personal computer and CAD expertise. He returned to the island that saw him born and is currently engaged in real estate development for a corporation in Puerto Rico.

Saul Aronovitch
3D Artist

Saul Aronovitch resides in Montreal Quebec Canada. He has been working in the field of Architecture for 7 years. His passion for 3D renderings led him to understand the ways of Autocad 3D and VIZ; however, all that changed once Revit came to light. Since Feb. 2004 he has been using Revit on a full-time basis in Architectural Firms. He has also been implementing Revit in the respective firms and instructing the employees with basic and advanced Revit courses. Coming across FormFonts really allows him to express his creative side and push his Revit skills to the next level.

Robin Ballew
3D Artist

Robin Ballew has been designing houses from the age of 14 when he designed his first bathroom remodel for his family in northern Michigan. He graduated from at Ferris State University and has Applied Science degree in Architectural Technology and a Bachelors of Science in Facility Management. After College he moved to Royal Oak about 15 miles north of Detroit where he started working for various Architects designing houses of all types from historic farm house renovations to high-end multi-million dollar residential communities. In 1999 he started using Revit software to design and has never turned back. In 2005 Robin got his builders license and created Ballew Designs where he specializes in residential design and construction. He likes to spend his free time with his wife Christen and his two kids Zoe who is 5 and Xander who is 2.

Brandon Bowie
3D Artist

Brandon Bowie resides in his hometown of Tacoma, Washington U.S.A. Brandon graduated from WSU in 2001 with a Bachelor of Architecture and has worked in the field of architecture since then. He found SketchUp at the end of the run of version 3 and loved it. Brandon was the primary 3D modeler for the first architecture firm he worked for out of school and continues to model for his current firm. He is an architect by trade (preparing to take the ARE next year), but he enjoys modeling anything and everything. In Brandon’s free time, he likes to take it easy with his wife and kids doing things together as a family.

Gabriel Concha
3D Artist

Gabriel Concha lives in Santiago, Chile. He's an Architect graduated from the University of Santiago. He also has a degree of Architectural 3D Designer. He has great skills in graphic arts, being recognized for this throughout his entire career. He is an accomplished practicing Architect and 3D Designer. Gabriel has also taught Technical Drawing at the University of Santiago.

Gabriel started working in the 3D area in 1999, and though expert in many diverse CAD software packages, his favourite tool is SketchUp, which he has used consistently since 2003. He's a specialist in modeling complex objects like cars or airplanes, but always with high simplicity and low polygon counts. Gabriel's motto is " less is more".

Todd Burch
Programmer

Todd Burch’s primary career focus has been in the Information Technology sector, working with IBM Mainframes.  Starting with IBM in 1980, right out of High School, he fixed broken computers for several years.  Moving into software in 1984, he got involved with IBM’s relational database technology and been working in that arena ever since.  He took a couple years off recently though, and went professional in the high-end residential cabinet making and woodworking field.   Now, he works from his house in Katy, Texas for a big company back east.  He is married and has a son in his freshman year of high school.

Octavian "TBD" Chis
Programmer

Octavian "TBD" Chis started "playing" on computers since age 8 on ZX Spectrum and changed lanes for a brief period when earning his degree in Telecommunications. Created the first Ruby script for Sketchup called Numb, first encrypted script, first custom interface for Sketchup (SU_DrawLines) and other tools that didn't see the light yet.

He is newly married and lives with his wife in Timisoara, Romania where he is now freelancing after 3 years of working for Siemens VDO Automotive.

James Fraser
3D Artist

James Fraser is originally from just north of Liverpool but currently lives in Edinburgh. He graduated from the university of Edinburgh in 2005 with a BSc in Astrophysics, specialising in the analysis of cosmological computational models. He began learning about computer graphics at a very early age and has recently taken to 3d modelling using SketchUp. In his spare time he mainly likes listening to, playing and recording music.

Eric Lay
3D Artist

Eric Lay lives with his wife and daughter in Madison, Alabama and works in downtown Huntsville. He received a Bachelor's degree in Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design as well as an Associate's degree in Computer Drafting. After the birth of his daughter he moved into the field of architecture where he continues to work. Discovering SketchUp in a job interview opened up a whole new skill set for him. In 2005 he started using Revit, but still loves the ease and speed of SketchUp. In his free time Eric likes to play racquetball, golf, build custom furniture, play trumpet and do whatever his daughter wants him to.

Ross Macintosh
3D Artist

Ross Macintosh has worked as an architectural designer since graduating in 1987 with a Masters degree from Dalhousie University's School of Architecture. Throughout his career he has worked on developing his graphic skills. Over the years, his pencil and pen & ink sketching has shifted to computer generated graphics. He is a long-time user of vector illustration programs from Xara and was an early adopter of SketchUp.

Ross is married to an architect and, together with their two boys and a Westie, live a sheltered life in Mermaid, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Rob Moors
3D Artist

Rob Moors is an architecture student at the Technical University of Delft. He began modeling in high school and has a broad knowledge of various 3D applications. With that he developed a very broad knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and has done quite a lot of 2D digital art. He ran across sketchup about half year ago and was immediately swept of his feet by it's simplicity and it's broad range of application. In his spare time he loves to go out clubbing with friends and if he is not clubbing he is probably the DJ at a party nearby.

Scott Para
3D Artist

Scott Para currently resides in Holly, Michigan U.S.A. It is a little town about 50 miles north of Detroit. Scott has been an autoCAD designer for 14 years with much of that time spent within the automotive industry. He recently "found" Sketchup in the last year and a half and was instantly in love with its simplicity and ease of use. Most of what Scott designs is furniture in one form or another. He currently works for a fortune 100 company as their Design Coordinator. In his free time, Scott enjoys Golf, Golf, and more Golf!