We believe in celebrating the incredible people who have shaped Tweet Garot Mechanical—not just when they retire, but while they’re still here. Here are their stories.
Kevin Duquaine
Kevin Duquaine started at Tweet Garot in 1987 and spent the next nearly 40 years running sheet metal crews on everything from St. Elizabeth Hospital to Two Rivers to Langlade to a long stretch at Lambeau Field. Kevin built a reputation along the way as the guy every field leader wanted to call when something went sideways because he would always tell them exactly what was happening with zero sugarcoating. Kevin has recently transitioned into a combined safety coordinator and field sheet metal supervisor role where he now does for younger foremen what guys like Jim Beaudry and Ray Roney once did for him. Outside of work he hunts, fishes, and spends time in his buddy’s shop working on whatever needs working on.
Wally Jenson
Wally Jenson started at Certified in Altoona in 1994 as a pre-apprentice and spent the next 30-plus years becoming one of the most trusted plumbing foremen in western Wisconsin. Wally spent roughly half his career on Xcel Energy projects and possesses a rare ability to see an entire job from every trade’s perspective at once, which he credits partly to building his own house from foundation to finish back in 1998. Outside of work Wally enjoys deer hunting and ATV rides with his wife whenever the hunting calendar lets him.
Shawn Thomas
Shawn Thomas joined TG in 1989 as a pre-apprentice and spent decades running plumbing crews on some of the region’s biggest projects, from St. Vincent Hospital to Lambeau Field. When his knees started telling him it was time for a change, he created a Project Planner role — using total station technology and prefabrication coordination to make field foremen faster and the fab shop smarter. Today he travels across TG locations teaching crews those tools, and says he’s nowhere near done yet.
Wayne Glen
Wayne Glen joined Tweet Garot about 30 years ago as a sheet metal journeyman in the Wisconsin Rapids office — one of the earliest members of what was then a scrappy team of 10 or 12 people working mostly paper mill shutdowns — and worked his way from pre-apprentice to foreman to superintendent to account manager, becoming the steady connective tissue that helped grow Rapids from a single trailer into TG’s first successful office outside of Green Bay. Outside of work he’s an avid deer hunter, mountain biker, and hobby maple syrup maker.
Andy Redard
Andy Redard came to Tweet Garot fresh out of high school in the early 1980s, got hired on the spot, and spent the next 40-plus years becoming one of the most respected sheet metal foremen in the company’s history — working everything from Anheuser Busch and Procter & Gamble to six years in the Marinette shipyard to decades of hospital work across northeast Wisconsin — all while building the kind of reputation where the guys he trained still call him when they hit a problem on a job. Andy is also responsible for at least one incident involving a deer carcass in a coworker’s pickup truck.
Davey Delcore
Davey Delcore grew up watching his grandfather, his dad, and two uncles build their lives at Tweet Garot. Now Davey has spent 32-plus years becoming one of the most respected plumbing foremen in the company — running everything from Neenah High School, to the Lambeau Field locker room renovation, to the Green Bay Expo Center during the height of COVID — all while quietly becoming the kind of foreman who still calls his former apprentices when they’re running their first big job just to sit down for an hour and make sure they feel confident.
Dan Ebert
Dan Ebert joined Tweet Garot in the early 1990s. He spent five years earning his apprenticeship while surviving four back surgeries, then spent years doing work in the ThedaCare system before running the fab shop, becoming labor coordinator for Local 400 plumbers and steamfitters across Northeast Wisconsin, finally ending up in the safety department. Outside of work Dan hunts pheasant out west with his son and fellow TG guys, processes his own venison, and maintains a half-acre pond in his backyard that he will tell you, unprompted, you should absolutely never dig.
Rod Dax
Rod Dax started at TG in 1984, missed his very first day with the flu, then went on to spend the next 40-plus years becoming arguably the single most influential person in the sheet metal group’s history — first as a shop foreman mastering fabrication and HVAC and industrial work, then transitioning to manpower and recruiting where he’s hired hundreds of people, handing out his business card everywhere he goes, and then watching them become journeymen and foremen and estimators.
Tim Howald
Tim Howald has been a driving force behind Tweet Garot Mechanical, serving more than 30 years as CEO/President before becoming Chairman. Under his leadership, the company has grown exponentially—expanding into new markets, disciplines, and regions while increasing sales twentyfold. His vision, paired with the expertise of his leadership team, has shaped the company into what it is today.
Beyond Tweet Garot, Tim has been a dedicated leader in both the industry and the community, serving on numerous national, state, and local boards, including SMACNA, MCAA, The Salvation Army, The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, and United Way. A proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Tim holds both an undergraduate degree and an MBA from the institution.
This tribute celebrates Tim’s remarkable impact, not just on our company, but on the many lives and communities he has touched along the way.