New to the forum - Introduction

Chris Fullmer

Does this mean I have to answer you questions in two places now?

Think positively about this Brad. Now you can choose to ignore me in two places! Thats twice the fun!

Chris

Ross Macintosh

Hi Brad
Welcome aboard this crazy fun-ship! One thing you'll find around here is you can ask questions too! Really! The crew and those of us along for the ride have a tremendous amount of experience in a diverse variety of things. While SketchUp brings us together the journey takes us into uncharted waters. Together we might discover great things but if we don't it doesn't really matter as we all build valuable friendships.

Regards, Ross

elmer

Nice meeting you Brad,
Welcome to this funny place,

Patrice

CraigD

Hey Brad, hey everyone! Thanks for joining bro, and thanks to everyone for welcoming my SketchUp brother and good friend Brad to this forum!!!

Brad and I have been friends and SketchUp team-mates for over a year now, but it's as if we've known each other our whole lives! We became fast friends, and we tend to keep other coworkers out WAAAY too late when Brad pays Boulder a visit (ahem...Barry!)

So here's the scoop: The SketchUp team is a very tight knit group of folks and we work very hard every day to bring you the best that we can. We have complimentary skills, much of them overlapping, and we cover for folks when they get overloaded or their roll changes. This leads me to an announcement:

Background: As you all know, (and have chipped in to help!), I had been working very hard to get converted to full-time Google employee. Well that has occurred!! Thank you all for your support!! I was out in California last week for training, which is why I was absent from the forums.

Craig's roll: For the past year+, my roll was SketchUp software Quality Assurance tester. In this roll I was working for the SketchUp team, helping to develop the tool we all love, and working for you guys trying to help and get great information to help us improve SketchUp! As part of the conversion I have accepted a new roll here on the SketchUp team as a 3D Data Specialist. This means that I will not be spending as much time on the forums as I used to, but I'll still be here! I have asked my good friends and team-mates, Brad, Tricia, and Barry to help fill in for me here.

This is all good news. It means that together, we have ensured that this forum became and remains a productive and important part of our community over this past half year. With the inclusion of more SketchUp folks your exposure increases and for me personally, it means that I will get a good chunk of time back so that I can contribute to the SketchUp team more productively and with more impact!

Thank you ALL for being who you are: the best damn community on the planet!!

We love you guys, and what you do every day keeps us going and doing what we do everyday.

So I very much welcome Brad, and Tricia, and Barry, and Jeff H, and all other SketchUp team members to this excellent forum, and I appreciate the help!

Cheers, to our future together!

 - CraigD

boofredlay

Thanks for the heads up Craig. We can only benefit from more GSU presence on this forum.

dylan

Welcome to all the SU guys and congrats Craig on your new position

3lii

welcome here