About VIZ
Visualizing Your Success, Together!
The Founder
I've been drawing buildings since I was a teenager.
VIZ started with a drafting table, a trade school certificate, and a stubborn belief that 3D belonged in the design process — not at the end of it.
I got my start drafting at CEC, an alternative high school in Denver Public Schools, then spent two years in trade school studying drafting and design. At 19, I took a job at KEPHART, a Denver architecture firm, running prints and doing odds and ends. I worked my way onto the drafting team, into project management, and eventually onto the lead design team.
In 2002, I brought SketchUp into the firm's design process. That was the turning point. I wasn't interested in making pretty pictures after the fact — I wanted to design in 3D, to use it as the tool that shapes a building instead of the brochure that sells it. That's still how VIZ works today.
I've always been a tinkerer, and I wanted to push further than the firm had room for. When founder Mike Kephart started Sidekick Homes after retiring, I began moonlighting — turning his napkin sketches into real drafted floor plans and renderings. In 2007, I left to start Visualize Graphics, Inc. Everyone just calls it VIZ.
The early years were hard. The recession hit, and I worked plenty of labor jobs and odd projects to keep the lights on. I nearly took a staff job with a production builder. But I kept going, and around 2011 the work started to compound.
What surprised me was where it came from. Not just real estate developers, but building materials companies, ad agencies, and building science specialists who needed to show what was happening inside a wall, a roof, a foundation. That work became VIZ Cutaway®. From there came larger developers like Brookfield Residential, high-end custom remodels where I handled both design and permit drawings, and eventually ventures of my own — a patent portfolio, a modular housing company, a structural building system.
Nineteen years in, VIZ is still built the way I started it. I'm on every project. When you call, you get me.
How VIZ Works
One partner. A bench of specialists.
VIZ isn't a 40-person studio, and that's deliberate.
I'm your point of contact from the first call through final delivery — no account managers, no handoffs, no explaining your project twice. Behind me is a bench of specialists I've worked with for years: experienced CGI artists, web developers, and designers I bring in based on what a project actually needs. You get senior-level talent matched to the work instead of whoever happens to be on staff.
VIZ Cutaway® is the exception. I do that work myself. It came out of years spent drawing assemblies for building science and materials clients, and it's still the thing I won't hand off.
Direct Access
One contact, start to finish. Real people with real phones — call, text, email, or meet in person. You'll always know exactly who you're working with.
The Right Specialist
Senior CGI artists, developers, and designers matched to each project. The team scales to the work instead of the work bending to fit a fixed team.
Cutaway Stays In-House
Our trademark view is drawn by the founder, not outsourced. Decades of drafting and design experience goes into every assembly.
Beyond Client Work
More than a studio. A builder.
The tinkering never stopped.
Alongside client projects, I've co-founded companies, co-invented products, and taken equity positions in ventures I helped bring to market. It's the same instinct that got me into 3D in the first place — I'd rather build the thing than just draw it.
Explore Innovation PartnerWhat To Expect
We're real people with real phones.
The same contact, every time
No account managers, no rotating project leads. You work with me from the first conversation through final delivery — and long after, when you need one more view for a board meeting.
A designer's eye, not just a render button
Two decades of drafting, project management, and design work sit behind every image. If something in the model doesn't work, I'll tell you before it becomes a rendering.
Whatever the project actually needs
Renderings, animations, interactive tools, websites, permit-ready drawings, design consulting. Most of our work started as a client asking whether we could take on one more piece.
Skin in the game
We've launched our own products and companies, so we know what's riding on your imagery. We treat your deadline like it's funding our own next round.
What are our clients saying?
We approached VIZ frustrated with the limitations of our old website. The team at VIZ was incredibly hands-on, offering creative solutions and a sleek design that surpassed our expectations.
Building Something New?
Let' Talk.
Whether you're an inventor with a product idea, a developer who needs a design-build partner, or a founder looking for equity-backed creative support — we want to hear from you.