The Team

The people
behind XYZmaster.

We worked together for years before we ever called ourselves a firm. Some of us at one company, some at two or three. When we finally joined forces under one name, the team was already built.

5 ON THE TEAM
55+ YEARS COMBINED
15+ YEARS TOGETHER
The short version

I'm someone who's loved design for as long as I can remember. From middle-school SketchUp on my parents' computer to fire alarm shop drawings in Las Vegas to running design departments in Denver to architectural visualization in Blender, the disciplines keep changing, but the love hasn't. Twenty years in, I run XYZmaster: the firm I always wanted to run, with the people I always wanted to work with. I'm a family man first, an aviation kid second, and someone who genuinely believes good design changes how people experience the world.

What I love
  • Family time
  • Music
  • My dad's airplane maintenance shop
  • Steak nights with the team
  • Flying with my brothers
  • Helping other people build their own businesses
My goal

My goal in life is to positively impact the lives of 100 million+ people.

EJ at his workstation
AT THE DESK
EJ with the team at the hockey rink
AT THE RINK
EJ in the cockpit
IN THE COCKPIT
EJ teaching BIM at Southern Utah University
IN THE CLASSROOM
The short version

I grew up on a farm. While my siblings ran around outside, I was inside trying to draw our house on my mom's ancient laptop, which sounded more like a pair of GE-90's on takeoff than working tech. By fifteen, my piano teacher turned out to be a rebar detailer by day, and that was it for me. He hired me. AutoCAD became my world. Two years later I met EJ and we formed one of those life-defining friendships. If you know, you know. I've been doing fire alarm and electrical design alongside him for most of the years since. When XYZmaster came together, the answer was already yes. Outside of design, I'm a photographer, a country-music guy who writes his own, and an Av-Geek who'll go up in anything with wings.

What I love
  • Family
  • The mountains
  • Photography (nature, landscape, aviation)
  • Country music, and writing my own
  • Going up in planes (or wrenching on them)
  • A medium rare ribeye by the fire
My goal

To inspire mastery through curiosity, creativity, and knowledge — showing up every single day with a fierce passion for living.

Wayne at his workstation
AT THE DESK
Wayne shooting photography in a stream
BEHIND THE LENS
Wayne at a canyon overlook
IN THE MOUNTAINS
Wayne in a helicopter cockpit
IN THE COCKPIT

I'm the youngest on the team and the last one to come on board. Growing up around design, yes I'm related to EJ, I learned what makes a good plan and what makes a great one a long time ago. Joining XYZ wasn't just a career move. It was joining the people I'd watched do this work my whole life.

My favorite part of any project is the first hour. Empty canvas, nothing to fix yet, the whole thing still possible. The next forty hours are figuring out how to get it back to that feeling.

AT THE DESK
IN THE AIR
AT THE HANGAR
ON THE WALL

I joined the team because I wanted to do this work with people I actually trust. That's harder to find than it should be. Most of my work is on the visualization side, the animations and walkthroughs that take a project from showing it on paper to showing what it'll feel like to be inside it.

The Bistline thing is real, but it doesn't get me anything around here that I didn't earn. Probably the opposite, honestly.

AT THE DESK
IN THE RENDER
ON THE TRAIL
WITH THE PEN
The short version

I came up in the trade like the rest of the XYZ crew. Years on the field, years on the boards. The work that keeps me here is the same work that pulled me in: drawing the plans that make a building safer to live and work in, alongside people I'd choose to work with anywhere.

What I love
  • Family
  • Outdoor adventures
  • Solving tough design problems
  • A quiet morning before the day starts
  • Time with the XYZ crew
  • A good cup of coffee
My goal

To do the best work of my life, with the best people I know.

AT THE DESK
ON THE TRAIL
WITH FAMILY
OFF THE CLOCK

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with the team?

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