Our People
Jitendra Hirani, P.E., President
Mr. Hirani has over 30 years of engineering experience with a specialty in structural engineering, safety engineering and construction management. He has directly overseen major capital improvement projects for Federal, NY State, NY City and Long Island municipalities in the areas of building improvements, bridge rehabilitation, highway upgrading, and site engineering. Additionally, he has developed significant skill in the area of Design/Build, and continually provides Quality Assurance and Quality Control on Hirani Engineering projects.
Jay Gewirtzman , P.E., Vice President of the Construction Inspection Construction Management Division
Jay comes to us after 35 years with a major NYC firm where he helped to grow and manage their 600 person New York City office and was responsible for profit and loss, hiring key managers, client contact, business development and day-to-day operation of the office. The multi-disciplinary office performed civil, structural, MEP, rail, security and architectural design services; as well as construction management and resident engineering. Prior to managing the office he managed their construction management group where he helped it to grow from 35 to 125 personnel. He started his career with NYC agencies where he provided construction management services on several large scale projects.
Joseph Pike, L.S., Vice President, Land Surveying
Mr. Pike has 30 years of experience in land surveying services as a Project Manager, Office and Field Supervisor, and Party Chief for topographical surveys, title surveys, subdivision stakeouts, building layouts, and elevation certificates; for street, bridge, buildings, and stadium projects. He has used the latest surveying equipment such as total station, data collector, level and GPS. He is responsible for all surveying projects undertaken by the firm.
Mr. Raymond Tobia, Vice President, Special Projects, Business Development
Mr. Tobia has more than 40 years of experience managing numerous site/topographic surveys and aerial surveys for airport, roadway, bridge, and rail transportation projects as well as educational and healthcare facility projects for the governmental agencies as well as for the private sector. He is knowledgeable in photographic data collection and reproduction, photo interpretation, and the use of computer generated topographic data relative to the preparation and completion of final digital mapping files.
Ms. Gina-Marie Schoregge, P.E., Director of Structural Engineering
Ms. Schoregge is a professional engineer with more than 12 years of structural geotechnical and foundation design experience for bridges, tunnels, subways, buildings, water and wastewater treatment facilities, and marine and waterfront structures. Gina was the Project Manager for the design and construction of a 25-story building for a corporate headquarters. She has also served as the Security Information Manager on several projects.
Mr. Abraham Rodriguez, P.E., Civil Engineering Department Manager
Mr. Rodriguez has over 40 years of civil engineering experience in Transportation, Power, Nuclear, Resource Recovery Facilities, Mining, Hydropower, Dam and Water & Wastewater Projects. He serves as Senior Civil Engineer/ Project Manager on the majority of Hirani’s civil projects.
