Company

Founders Leila Sink and Ken VanBree

In the Beginning

The service has literally been a lifetime in the making. Founder Ken VanBree first became interested in the art and science of photography when he received a Brownie camera in the seventh grade. That summer his father drove the family from Michigan to Yellowstone National Park where Ken's love of photography began. Through the years he continued to pursue his hobby, but practicality also took him down a more academic path.

He received engineering degrees from University of Michigan and MIT before coming to work for Hewlett-Packard in the Bay Area. Throughout his career at HP and it's spin-off Agilent, he continued to persue his interest in photography. A year at MIT's Sloan School of Management got him interested in starting a company on his own that would combine his love of photography with his interest in high-tech business.

The seeds of an idea

During the process of building his new Cal-Asian inspired home he meticulously documented the construction progress with his digital camera. He soon realized that the images he had taken during the construction process made later changes much easier. He discovered that something he enjoyed doing could also be useful to contractors and homeowners and Imaging Perspective was born.

Imaging Perspective has developed an Internet-based service to document the construction process, that includes photographing, indexing, archiving and retrieving reference photos for quality control, re-work and change orders. The process uses commercially available digital cameras along with patent pending hardware and software. Ken brought in Leila Sink to help develop the software needed to organize and display the images on the web. Leila is a software engineer with extensive experience developing, supporting, evaluating and managing complex software tools. She has a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and over 13 years of experience in working with large system software.