Glassworks originally focused on leaded stained glass pieces, but Oye transitioned the firm into an oven-based model. Glassworks has provided architectural glass across the globe, from Japan to Panama, but mostly on the East and West Coasts. Her father, who was originally from the Seattle-area, served in the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was made almost entirely of Japanese Americans. Afterward he moved East, like many other Japanese Americans, she said. Her knack for business led her to get an MBA, where she wrote her thesis on Shahbaghlian and his stained glass company.