What People Have Been Saying About You…

When we collected nominations for the Core Value awards, we received 60+ nominations! Although not everyone can win an award, we wanted to share the nice things people had to say about the wonderful people who we work with every day. Your positive attitudes, helpfulness, and hard work are noticed and appreciated by your coworkers.


Under each name is the anonymous quote someone wrote about you on the nomination form!

Sebastian Cruz
“He has given me the opportunity to excel in my position and continues to be a great mentor.”

Steve Edwards
“Un patron que siempre comprende sus trabajadores.”

“Steve ha estado en Casey Fogli desde que yo inicié y él ya era superintendente. Nos ha dado la oportunidad de aprender y crecer dentro de la compañía. A mi y a muchos de la compañía nos a apoyado y nos ha dado diversas oportunidades de crecimiento de las cuales hemos podido seguir trabajando dentro de Casey Fogli. Steve con su liderazgo nos a mantenido a todos unidos. Sus valores como persona y superintendente se reflejan día a día en su equipo de trabajo, en su comunicación con diversas companias y en nuestra misma compañía.”

Shawna Olgin
“She has gone out of her way to help the compliance team.”

Jeff Otani
“Always checking takeoff/ giving input”

Andy Vasconi
“I had the pleasure of sitting in on a tactical meeting and I could hear and see that he truly cares for his employees by providing them clarity, open communication and building trust. He knows that without his employees and the relationships that he spends time building with them creates a better, healthier work environment and aids in the success of his company.”

Amanda Chaudhary
“Amanda truly lives out this core value in all she does and how she leads her team. She understands the uniqueness of people and brings people together.”

Dave Moyot
“Aside from his in-depth safety knowledge and guidance, it is clear that Dave truly cares about his work and the people within this company. He’s committed to ensuing that every employee understands the importance of a safe work environment. There’s passion and conviction behind his voice that motivates people to listen during his trainings/guidance.”

“Always goes above and beyond to mentor those in the field to teach them to think safety first.”

Michael Maldonado
“Great leader”

Sandy Lance
“In the short time Sandy has been with Harbor Linx, she has provided exceptional support and service. Sandy has exemplified our company’s mission and positively impacted our employees.”

Karl Herzer
“Karl strives to maintain MH Integrity daily with his team/client interactions.”

Arty Loya
“Arty is a very patient and opportunistic guy and is willing to give opportunity to anyone in his crew no matter where they come from, he is diverse and you will learn a lot from him. Great operator and a great leader”

Juan Toscano
“Juan has shown an ability to go beyond the surface understanding of a project and task. His ability and drive to dig deeper has continued to amaze. When questions need to be asked by his peers, he is their go-to for help and understanding. Juan is a perfect example of being detailed, organized, and always striving to improve.”

Rafael Rodriguez
“He always at work and he’s the best warehouse assistant”

Edgar Rodriguez
“Edgar is an excellent communicator and willingness to work hard.”

Jose Del Toro
“Because of him I got the opportunity to be where I am today. He let me learn and explain to me when I was wrong to get better every day”

Matt Daley
“Matt provides an environment of creative thinking and inclusiveness through leadership.”

Jose Luis Montes
“Great teacher and takes pride on his work”

Joaquin Duenas
“Joaquin has stepped into a difficult environment at Stanford since joining M&H late last year. Since then he has exceeded expectations in taking over for a long time superintendent and has become an essential part of the Stanford team. Joaquin has consistently pushed crews to perform to their best abilities, highlighted key concerns to the project management team to help us stay on schedule and provide minute-to-minute feedback to Stanford, and has gone above and beyond what is requested when it comes to the erratic schedules, work hours and scope requirements that we experience at Stanford.”

Jorge Gomez
“One of our best operators who is not limited to the seat.”

William Driggars
“Willy has been able to build strong relationships with both the General Contractor and other Subcontractors onsite. This has been a huge benefit to a tough project. Because of his attitude and abilities, we have been asked to perform work outside of our scope to benefit the project and Willy with his crew have been able to take on this work in stride, while maintaining a continuously changing and aggressive schedule to work around all contractors onsite.”

Jose Ventura
“Jose has repeatedly identified potential utility conflicts out ahead of mainline excavation operations. On the Natoma Alley project there have been numerous unknown utilities that have been exposed without damage. Jose has instilled this awareness of working around unknown conditions with the rest of his crew.”

Mike Laganowksy
“Great senior Pm works hard in every project”

Jeremy Ramer
“Very detail oriented, learns quickly.”

“He’s growing very quickly on he’s position and hes one of the Forman that hes very smart and he’s always on track for safety he’s friendly and he takes care of his crew”

Iven Kincheloe
“Iven is a truly unique and special team member. He is the true embodiment or definition of mentorship. Iven is proud to be a long time, integral member of the McGuire and Hester family.”

Dave Koerber
“David Koerber, represents McGuire and Hester. He is always looking out for the company, makes sure we treat our owners fairly. Dave operates day to day with integrity. He instills that in us in the field. When Dave interacts with the field he treats everyone with respect, he listens and also makes you feel part of a team. Our owners see the integrity in McGuire and Hester. As Joe Hester said. “Its not what you know, or who you know, its who knows you” I believe this comes back around.”

Gustavo Pimentel
“Gustavo’s daily demeanor and attitude consistently represents Integrity on behalf of his employer. Integrity consistently shown or given towards his crew team members, fellow trade professionals, inspectors, architects and client customers. Gustavo fosters lasting relationships. For the 8+ years we’ve worked together he’s been trustworthy, fair and both respected and respectful.”

Crecenciano Cardenas
“He has learned plumbing from scratch, never complained, allowing our goals to be achieved”

Adolfo Gomez
“Adolfo has routinely been assigned to McGuire and Hester long time, repeat customers for one simple reason. He builds his work “Right the First Time”. Zero shortcuts, with safety and production goals achieved. From City of Oakland’s Lake Merritt to the Presidio’s Tunnel Tops projects, the quality of his work and leadership is unparalleled.”

Jose D. Gonzalez
“Jose Gonzalez routinely requests assignment of certain newly added Journeyman team members in order to train and teach them certain skills or tasks under the umbrella of Landscape & Irrigation scope at Stanford University. Jose understands the value of creating opportunities for our employees through his teaching and mentorship. While serving the Landscape Group as LS Foreman of record at Stanford, Jose has routinely exercised innovative thinking to help problem solve and move projects forward to completion.”

Andrew Jenco
“From Day one out at UCSF Andrew has been more than helpful, each and everyday he takes time out of his busy day to answer any questions I may have and check in with me. I honestly could not ask for a better supervisor/ mentor to learn and grow from.”

Ramon Ochoa
“Es un ejemplo a seguir muy trabador, respetuoso y muy profesional en su área de trabajo.”

Juan Lopez
“Always happy, friendly and hard worker and safety all the time”

Robert King
“Robert King routinely directs commercial landscape maintenance operations that include safe notice to public, documentation, storage, transport, handling, use and clean up of toxic chemicals. Robert maintains state and local licensing authorizing these activities. Robert’s crew safely stores, transports and consumes gasoline for multiple gas powered equipment pieces. His crew operates in traffic sensitive open spaces requiring heightened understanding of traffic safety and public awareness. Thanks to Robert’s diligence and attention to safety his crew enjoys a well prepared and safe daily work environment.”

Jorge Gomez
“Jorge Gomez is an exemplary employee and an integral part of this company”

Nick Creber
“Nick has done a great job really impressing the Hathaway Dinwiddie team in South San Francisco, where we have not only remained their go to Underground contractor but they’ve relied on us for any number of things as that project area has progressed.”

Tyler Hester
“Tyler has done an amazing job integrating with the IFOA team at Parnassus, continuing to represent M&H in a positive way among any number of past, present, and future clients. His abilities on the project have both confirmed M&H’s skills when it comes to Alt Delivery projects and put our name front and center to UCSF, Herrero, Boldt, Webcor, Rosendin, and Southland when it comes to all other projects, Alt Deliv or not.”

Shane Thomas
“Best operator in the company fast production very safe and quality is amazing”

Travis O’Connor
“Travis is always willing to help answer and/or provide input for the entire team. Both for operations and estimating, as well as any trade (UG, Grading, LS). I believe he has a powerful vision due to his field and market experience.”

Jose Zamora
“Jose repeatedly completes job after job at Stanford successfully and takes pride in his work and it shows.”

Thank you to everyone who took the time to notice and appreciate the efforts of your coworkers and nominate them for an award.

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