Leadership

Our Team

It goes without saying that construction firms rely on highly skilled and experienced team members to deliver on unique and complex projects. What differentiates our team at UIT is that we bring a more diverse background of leadership skills and industry experience, with an expertise in the heavy civil and infrastructure related industries. Tunneling underground in challenging ground conditions requires that we routinely engage in problem solving and rely on the geotechnical expertise of our team members to overcome what may otherwise present a terminal issue to other entities.

Our team members value creativity, innovation and a healthy tolerance of calculated risk to push the boundaries of trenchless installation technology and deliver exceptional value to our clients. That said, we also know the importance of doing the simple, more routine tasks well with dependable outcomes.

Here at UIT, you will find the professionals listed below more than willing to embrace a challenge and work tirelessly to a successful outcome, regardless of the project size.

President

General Manager

Vice President

General Superintendent

Project Manager

Senior Estimator

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NEARLY A CENTURY OF COMBINED EXPERIENCE

As a sister company to Harrison Western Construction Corporation, a 50+ year old firm, we leverage superior leadership, management, process orientation and senior oversight on all projects large and small, delivering superior results on time and under budget for our clients.

Joe Diesslin

President

As President of UIT and our parent company Harrison Western Construction, Joe is responsible for overall leadership and direction for the firm including administrative management, business development, field operations, engineering, safety, maintenance, and MSHA/OSHA compliance. Mr. Diesslin’s extensive geotechnical background and diverse experience compliments the wide variety of scopes and methods employed at UIT very well. Joe is the named party for contracting licenses in eight states, as well as most Colorado counties and municipalities that require licensing.

Jason Langer

General Manager

As General Manager of all UIT operations, Jason is responsible for overseeing day-to-day business across UIT, including assistance in bidding and project evaluation, marketing and business development, project management and execution and closeout of projects. Jason has extensive experience with various geotechnical construction methods including ground anchors, micropiles, rockfall mitigation, jet, compaction, slurry and cement grouting. He also has extensive experience engaging in design/build projects helping to value-engineer projects benefitting all stakeholders.

Tom Szynakiewicz, PE, DGE

Vice President

Tom has more than 16 years of management experience in the specialty construction industry, primarily focusing on the geotechnical construction sector. His expertise includes earth retention, landslide stabilization, and ground improvement. Tom has employed a wide variety of geotechnical construction methods including ground anchors, micropiles, wet and dry soil mixing, vibro-compaction and stone columns, jet grouting, and compaction, slurry, cement, and chemical grouting. Tom is a licensed professional engineer in 18 states and is a certified Diplomate Geotechnical Engineer by the ASCE Academy of Geo-Professionals. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the International Association of Foundation Drilling and is past President of the Colorado Association of Geotechnical Engineers.

Raul Cardenas

Raul Cardenas

General Superintendent

Raul is UIT’s General Superintendent with more than 16 years of pipeline and tunneling/boring experience. His responsibilities and duties include supervising multiple crews; coordinating with engineers; inspecting; attending regular on-site job meetings with client; setting up utility locates; ordering materials; scheduling subcontractors; conducting regular safety tool-box trainings; reading and interpreting blueprints; reporting daily time sheets. His expertise includes microtunneling, pipe ramming, pipe crushing, guided ramming, TBM, pipe jacking, auger bore, and guided bore. He is fluent in English and Spanish.

Igor Gartenflyus

Igor Gartenflyus

Assistant PM

Igor is an Assistant Project Manager who is an experienced heavy civil construction professional with over seven years of experience; a civil engineer by trade, with wide-ranging experience on projects extending across the United States. He brings a thorough understanding of project management, jobsite supervision, vendor relations, and client relations to the UIT management team. He is heavily involved with UIT’s estimating and budgeting operations, as well as the day-to-day management of on-going projects.

Peter Gibala

Peter Gibala

Assistant PM

Peter is an Assistant Project Manager with more than seven years of engineering and construction experience. His responsibilities and duties include developing project scopes, means/methods and budgets, as well as pre-construction project activities, engineering support, and project management on a variety of heavy civil, tunneling, mining, and structural construction projects.  He also has extensive experience engaging in design/build projects helping to value-engineer projects benefitting all stakeholders.