Rishard Bitbaba

Rishard Bitbaba is passionate about connecting with people and helping them to achieve their personal and project goals. As Operations and Leadership Team Member at DPR, he lives his dream job every day. Rishard works with leaders across DPR’s family of companies to ensure that job set-up and execution align with the organization’s core values and that leaders get the support they need to successfully integrate their project execution approach and deliver consistent results for our customers.

Since joining in 1998, Rishard has worked on some of DPR’s largest, most technically complex projects. He puts that experience to work helping to evolve DPR’s strategy of building better to improve the industry. As part of that evolution, he helped develop DPR’s Best Builder Framework that consolidates more than 30 years of building insights, making it easier for teams to access and understand the expectations and best practices needed for successful project planning and execution. Creativity and innovation set DPR apart as its teams show up, interact with people and deliver predictable outcomes. Rishard and his team help our hundreds of project teams provide the best support for our customers.

People are what truly excite Rishard about his job. Getting to ‘hang out’ with friends during the workday and forming deeper relationships with people he admires help make his work intrinsically satisfying and ‘Enjoyment’ his favorite DPR core value. As a certified life coach, Rishard incorporates coaching skills daily. He loves having new opportunities with changing responsibilities that keep things exciting. We are all more powerful and capable than we give ourselves credit for and he is passionate about helping to find those opportunities that enable our people see that within themselves. Rishard loves watching and being a part of nurturing that growth.

One such challenge was life-changing for Rishard. Several years ago, after traveling extensively, he was ready to be home in San Francisco when he was asked to take on a new challenge in Utah. He wanted to go home, meet someone special and start a family, but he decided to accept the offer anyway and went to work on a large-scale, multi-year project. Despite his early hesitation, he loved Utah! The outdoors and skiing were wonderful, but mostly he loved it because he met his wife there. He is now happily married because he said ‘yes’ to that DPR opportunity that pushed him beyond his comfort.

• Favorite DPR core value: Ever forward
• First job: Mechanic on a tomato harvester
• Most useful app: Audible – Audio books
• Desired superpower: Time travel–backward and forward
• Your hero: My mother, who came to this country with two teenage kids, not knowing a word of English, and accomplished so much.
• Word to the wise: Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. So keep trying.