Making Villanova Proud
"I was hired as a press operator, and I left as a manager," he says. After running that shop for a couple years, Villanova asked him to help the Catholic university find a new in-plant director, and he worked with them as a consultant.
"They actually ended up offering me the job," he says.
With four kids to feed, he jumped on the opportunity to move to a larger university. That was in 1999. At the time, the in-plant had 11 employees and a mix of small offset and monochrome digital equipment, all situated in an old residence building on campus. He quickly discovered that because of the large amount of work being done off campus, the in-plant was not recovering its costs. He vowed to turn this around.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
