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The Recent Years - 2017 to 2021
Over the most recent five years (2017 – 2021), Keller Engineers has been blessed to continue to grow both professionally in service offerings and personally through employees, all the while maintaining a family atmosphere. We have celebrated graduations, engagements, weddings, births of children and grandchildren, employee promotions, employees earning professional registrations and certifications, and the company being recognized with several awards.
With growth comes change, and each of the last five years brought adaptation efforts to new technology, equipment, and software. Keller, specifically our Business Development activities, has adapted to these advances and made a commitment to grow our social media presence and produce a monthly electronic newsletter; 2021 will also bring new website that will be shared soon!
Discussing this five-year period ending in 2021 wouldn’t be complete without mentioning the challenges brought by COVID-19. We can happily state our tight-knit team has weathered the COVID storm with each other and with our clients. We are grateful that, even though a few employees and/or their family members have had COVID, everyone is healthy.
To end the Keller Engineers’ Journey segment – The First 30 Years – We share a story with you that has all the makings of a good book… surprise, shock, sorrow, and humor! This story was shared by Brian Smith, PE, Vice President, Director of Land Development and is included in the Keller Engineers history book “The First 25 Years”.
Killer Pigeon
On a very cold January 2017 day, as Tom Morisi and I sat in my office, we were met with the sound of crashing glass behind me. After the initial shock - and realization that I almost ran over Tom to escape whoever or whatever was trying to kill me - I was surprised to see a pigeon lying on my desk amongst the shards of glass.
Unfortunately, the bird did not survive the crash, so now the question was what should we do with the bird – and who is going to do it? After hearing several suggestions, we called Thad Ferguson who came over and calmly picked the bird up by its legs and without saying a word, took it out back and laid it to rest.
A week or so later, my office was the scene of a prank with fake pigeons throughout. To this day the perpetrator has not come forward – but I know who you are and when the time is right, turnabout is fair play!
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