Shawn grew up in San Diego, California.  He married young and was a flooring contractor for several years before moving his wife and kids up to Seattle to help his brother Kelly and cousin John get our company started.

We were regular working fellas trying to start out, and had some struggles learning how to run a business.  Shawn brought with him  important business know-how and the ability that was needed to keep things in order, and carried the company in his name as the owner until we incorporated in September, 2000.

Shawn lives with his wife Samantha and their kids on Camano Island.  Even though he drives much farther than any of us to our Seattle jobsites, he's usually been the first to get there, often times having carried the day's package of 20 to 30 windows upstairs to the hallways before the rest of us showed up.

John T. Kartak

Ken grew up in the same home his grandfather had built in Snohomish, and got his first job working at a pallet factory.  After some construction courses in college, he went to work for a framing & remodeling contractor, building large colonial homes.

Ken later worked for Perry framing houses, and has also done a lot of projects in Snohomish over the years.  He helped John frame up a few homes in 1995/1996, and then began working with us at Cutting Edge.  Ken is one of the company owners, and also part of our all-family crew. He's usually the first guy inside the apartments & condos, carefully removing the old windows ahead of us so that we can come in behind him to put the new ones in.

He likes to hike in the mountains, sometimes adopting & repairing a cabin or two, and has been a long-time volunteer with Search & Rescue.  Ken lives with his wife Vicki just outside Snohomish in the house he built on 15 acres, with horses, chickens, dogs & cats, etc.

Perry grew up in Snohomish, and then served in the Army for a few years.  Later, he worked with Ken and John for a framing and remodeling contractor for a couple years around 1990 or so, while serving as a reservist in the National Guard.  After that, he went to work for another builder, heading up several framing crews.

He soon became a contractor, framing up homes with Ken in the greater Puget Sound area, and helped John do some framing in 1995/1996.  Whenever he was between projects he worked with us at Cutting Edge, replacing windows.  Like the rest of us, Perry is one of the owners of Cutting Edge Windows, and has been a permanent part of the crew for several years.

He also works for the sheriff's department as a volunteer with a Snohomish County Search & Rescue commission, and actively participates in most missions as the president of the Snohomish Unit.

Perry lives in Snohomish with his wife Ann (Ken's other sister) and their kids.