Wessler is pleased to announce Don Thompson as our Employee of the Month! We asked Don a few questions about himself so you could get to know him better.
I am a Senior Designer in the Wastewater Group. My main role is generating design drawings for our wastewater projects using AutoCAD and beginning, very recently, to use Revit. I assist the engineers in the layout of plant sites and building/equipment layouts.
I married my high school sweetheart and 43 years later we are still together and loving each other.
Always have the clients best interest in mind. Give 100%. It is a team effort.
Be open to new ideas. Look forward and not back.
My only real hobby is photography.
Before I moved into this field, I worked for a manufacturing facility in New Mexico. The company manufactured oil and gas production equipment so I was familiar with pipe and pipe fittings. When I moved to Indiana, I had two job offers, one of which was with a civil engineering firm creating drawings for wastewater and water facilities. I figured pipe was pipe (it didn’t take me long to figure out that wasn’t correct) so I took the position with the civil engineering firm.
I enjoy any activity with my family, but just being around them is what I enjoy best.
When my twin granddaughters were born in 2000, digital photography was just taking off. I bought my first digital camera two days after they were born and began taking photos of them. I have always loved nature, so, at the same time, I began documenting my time out in nature. Several of my photographs have won awards, both locally and in southwest Florida where my wife and I love to vacation. I have had a few photographs published in Buckmasters Magazine, and several in the Sanibel-Captiva Nature Calendar.