Lawson-Fisher announces the promotion of Dan Delgado, PE, from Senior Civil Engineer of Transportation to Director of the Transportation Department. Delgado replaces Vice President Mike Guzik, PE, who will shift his focus to administrative duties, while still remaining on hand for quality control.
Delgado’s move is part of a series of changes at LFA related to growth and sustainability, including other inter-office promotions and the addition of an Indianapolis satellite office this year.
Delgado joined LFA in January 1998 after graduating from Notre Dame University with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. Hailing from a Minnesota town of less than 300, Delgado was impressed with LFA’s Senior Week presentation and decided to stay in the Midwest at a mid-sized company.
“I’m one of the very few people I know of, and the only one of all my friends, who is still with the same company they started at after college,” he said. “I seem to be a good fit!”
He said he started college in mechanical engineering, later moving to civil engineering because he desired constructing larger facilities. (In fact, he designed his Mishawaka home himself, which includes geothermal energy and solar panels.) Once hired at LFA, his mentors, current LFA President Paul Hummel, PE, and Chesterton’s now Town Engineer Mark O’Dell, PE, guided him in transportation engineering. He earned his Professional Engineering license four years later in 2002.
LFA President Paul Hummel said, “Dan has been with us for nearly three decades, nearly as long as I have. Over that time, he has grown immensely. Dan always has great attention to detail and, over the years, has expanded his knowledge of project management to compliment his technical abilities. Dan has had significant impact on LFA fostering and enhancing our reputation in central and northern Indiana. We are confident in his abilities to move the Lawson-Fisher Transportation Department forward for many years to come.”
Delgado’s experience at LFA includes INDOT, LPA, and local municipalities’ transportation work. He has worked on bridge rehabilitation/replacements, added capacity projects, interchange reconstruction, multiple intersections, dozens of small structure improvements projects, and partial and full roadway reconstruction projects.
He said the US 35 corridor project in LaPorte, which will be finished in 2027, is his crowning accomplishment thus far.
“I wrote the Letter of Interest for the 35 project and I took a chance with it, went a different direction — and we won it. It’s a very large project for Lawson-Fisher and I’m proud to have brought that here,” he said. “One of our most significant projects ever and I’ve been with it from the start.”
As Transportation Director, Delgado said he will continue his philosophy of team collaboration. “I’m always asking people for their thoughts and getting input from others. I want to receive feedback and hope to give staff the freedom to try out new ideas.”
To be successful at his job, Delgado said, “I did it by making focused client contacts and by being well-regarded in my field. And I am always trying to bring forward new ideas.”
In his spare time, he is known for an encyclopedic knowledge of music. Delgado is also LFA’s resident specialist in utility coordination, maintenance of traffic design, storm sewer design, special provision writing, ADA design, and traffic management planning. As the Transportation Director, he handles the day-to-day communication with the project team to ensure scope, schedule, and budget are all on track. He is also a member of the LFA Board of Directors and a strong contributor to ASCE (The American Society of Civil Engineers) activities.
