For most peo­ple, inter­fac­ing with Tor­mach involves two key depart­ments: Tech­ni­cal Sup­port and Sales. Bring­ing out an “Oz” from behind the cur­tain (so to speak), the new Employee Spot­light series intro­duces you to Tor­mach employ­ees respon­si­ble for every­day busi­ness operations.

We start with Bob Miller, Logis­tics Man­ager and Tormach’s most vet­eran employee. Call­ing him­self the ulti­mate logis­tics geek, Bob is a guru at get­ting things from Point A to Point B. We asked Bob a few ques­tions about his job and what he loves to do when he’s off the clock .

1. What is your “offi­cial” job title and how long have you worked at Tor­mach?
   My offi­cial Tor­mach job title is Logis­tics Man­ager. I started work­ing here the day after Christ­mas 2006.
2. What do you like most about work­ing at Tor­mach?
   I really like the cohe­sive­ness of my cowork­ers at Tor­mach. Our pres­i­dent, Greg Jack­son, has taken great care in assem­bling some very spe­cial peo­ple. I truly look for­ward to com­ing to work each day — just ask any­one here or ask my wife Donna. Tor­mach is by far the best place I have ever worked.
3. What’s the best part of your job?
   I am the ulti­mate logis­tics geek. I look for­ward to see­ing what new place we can sell a PCNC and then the chal­lenge is work­ing with the rest of the team and fig­ur­ing out the best way to get it there.
4. What’s the hard­est part of your job?
   For me, the hard­est part of my job is when we decide to offer some­thing new. I find it really dif­fi­cult try­ing to fig­ure out how many we should ini­tially have avail­able. I really get stressed when we are out of stock (just ask my coworkers).
5. How do you spend your week­ends?
   I am a loyal United Methodist clergy spouse. I spend the major­ity of my free time deeply involved in the min­istry of our local church. I’m also a huge Cubs and Bears fan.
6. If you won the lot­tery, what would you do?
   I haven’t thought too much about this, but I still would want to dab­ble in logis­tics and prob­a­bly do more mis­sion work.
7. What is your favorite food/movie/band/book/hobby (pick one)?
   Up until the end of last year, I was the mov­ing direc­tor for the Wis­con­sin Con­fer­ence of the United Methodist Church (still doing the logis­tics thing). We moved 50 – 60 newly appointed pas­tors to their new churches. I’m still look­ing for a new hobby or pas­sion, but I plan to ride my bike more this summer.
8. Tell us a joke.
   Change is Dif­fi­cult: One time a mom walked in on her six-year-old son who was cry­ing. “What’s wrong?” she asked. “I just fig­ured out how to tie my shoes,” he said. She replied, “Well, honey, that’s won­der­ful. You’re grow­ing up. But why are you cry­ing?” “Because,” he said, “now I’ll have to do it every day for the rest of my life.” (Change is dif­fi­cult for us all.)

As an itin­er­ate clergy spouse, I have had a very unique oppor­tu­nity to work in many dif­fer­ent envi­ron­ments, each hav­ing their own unique chal­lenges. Before Tor­mach, I facil­i­tated inter­na­tional logis­tics for huge com­pres­sors in the oil and gas indus­try, small engines, cork prod­ucts, dec­o­ra­tive hard­ware, and finally bath­room scales. I grad­u­ated from West­ern Illi­nois Uni­ver­sity, with a BA Degree.

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About Julie Hen­ning

Julie Hen­ning is the Tor­mach Tech­ni­cal Writer. She has a ten year back­ground in tech­ni­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion and mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the med­ical device and printed cir­cuit board indus­tries. Julie holds a BS in Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the Mil­wau­kee School of Engi­neer­ing and a MS in Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion from Col­orado State University.