Marla Belzowski
My sincere condolences to the Verner Family.
Rudy was one of the few Engineering Managers I have worked for who really took a genuine interest in the engineers in his group.
While we were starting plans and breaking ground for the new PTC, I was volunteering my time to also help our local dog club break ground and build out a new training building (which isn't as large as the new PTC but was still a very considerable size).
We broke ground on both building within the same week. The Training building was complete the following March, with start up and move in just in time for the club's spring show (which went off without a hitch).
I used to come into Rudy's office each week with photos of the new training club building and brag about the quick progress we were making on it just to tease Rudy on how long it was taking him and the whole team to construct the PTC. He knew, that I knew, the training building was a heck of a lot easier to get built than what the PTC was from both a construction design as well as a oversight and funding aspect.
Still it was something we could both laugh about and then talk dogs and engineering proects. Rudy's absence at the inauguration event this summer for our new PTC building will certainly be noticed, by everyone in attendance from Nestle.
My sincerest condolences go out to his entire family for peace in this tough time.
Saturday May 2, 2015 at 6:29 am