Meet Your HighPoint Team

Jerry Cardinal
CEO/Founder“Only in the dictionary does success come before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.”
~ Vince Lombardi

Leslie Cardinal
Corporate Support/Founder“Experience is gained by our own mistakes. Wisdom is gained by the experience of others.”
~ My Dad

Peter Reese
COO“In response to people saying you can't go back...well what happens when you get to the cliff and you take one step forward or you take a 180 degree turn and you take one step forward, which way are you going? and which is progress?"
~ Doug Tompkins

Kari Bodell
Controller“Greater is He that is in me, than he who is in the world.”
~ 1 John 4:4

Brandon Ciesielski
VP of Automation“Work Hard in Silence. Let your Success be Your Noise”
~ Frank Ocean

Matt Rosenberger
VP of Construction“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Ryan VanBeek
VP of Service“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
~ Abraham Maslow

Chad Rhoderick
VP of Human Resources(HR)/Safety“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
~ Chuck Swindoll

Ed VanWinkle
VP of Systems“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
~ Jackie Robinson

Jericho Andrew
Lead Estimator“The best and wisest thing in the world is to work as if it all depended upon you, and then trust in God, knowing that it all depends upon Him.”
~ Charles H. Spurgeon

Mandy Budnick
Payroll and Benefits Coordinator“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Kassandra Clarke
Brand and Event Manager“The road to success is always under construction.”
~ Lily Tomlin

Scott Dawson
Project Manager“I never lose, I either win or learn.”
~ Nelson Mandela

Tyler Gray
Prefab Project Manager“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, and difficulty.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Joe Halik
Project Manager“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
~ Albert Einstein

Ciera Hoekstra
Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable“Happiness is a choice – a choice to be joyful, no matter what the circumstance.”
~ Sadie Robertson

Jason Kapanui
Project Manager“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish...and feed yourself. He's a grown man, and fishing's not that hard.”
~ Ron Swanson

Art Laughlin
Automation Engineer“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
~ Ernest Hemingway

Don McWilliams
Systems Account Manager“The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all – using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.”
~ Leo Rosten

Jay Meyers
Construction Coordinator“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined efforts of everyone I've ever known.”
~ Chuck Palahniuk

Brian Mooney
Estimator“In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.”
~ Sigurd F. Olson

Adam Ohlendorf
Systems Engineer“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
~ Thomas Edison

Jerry Pendell
Shop Manager“Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in, and something to hope for.”
~ Lou Holtz

Larry Riek
Estimator“If you won’t be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?”
~ Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav

Chris Runnels
Project Manager“Many of Life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
~ Thomas A. Edison

Tom Shaw
Ignition Specialist“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
~ Albert Einstein

Derek Stearns
Project Manager“Plan your work and work your plan.”
~ Napoleon Hill

Danielle Stewart
Construction Coordinator“The cost of procrastination is the life you could have lived.”
~ David Allen

Tim Stoudt
Systems Project Manager“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
~ Tommy Lasorda

Nate VanderLoon
Service Account Manager“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
~ C.S. Lewis