Corporate Business Profiles: Joseph Pignataro, AIA, LEED AP, JRS Architect, P.C.

Joseph Pignataro, AIA, LEED AP, JRS Architect, P.C.

Name: Joseph Pignataro, AIA, LEED AP

Title: Associate, Office Manager

Company: JRS Architect, P.C.

Location: 30 West 24th St., New York, N.Y.

Birthplace and year: Oceanside, N.Y., 1966

Family: Wife and daughter

College: New York Institute of Technology, BArch, '89

First job outside of real estate: Bridge & Tunnel Officer (all right, toll collector) for the Triboro Bridge & Tunnel Authority

First job in real estate or allied field: Innocenti & Webel, Architecture and Landscape Architecture

What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Managing the NYC branch of JRS while continuing to practice architecture keeps me quite busy. Future plans: Continue to nurture the talent our firm has to continue to grow our extensive client base.

Favorite book: "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: and Other Disasters" by Jean Shepherd

Favorite movie: "Slapshot"

Person you admire most (outside of family): Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Key to success: Putting people at ease by being a straight shooter without pretense and being an expert in my profession

If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Owning and operating a small Scuba shack somewhere in the Caribbean. I've already got the plans drawn up, somewhere...