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Posted: December 4, 2009
Joseph Pignataro 2009
Name: Joseph Pignataro, AIA, LEED AP
Title: Associate
Company: JRS Architect, PC
Location: 30 West 24th St., New York, NY 10010
Birth place and date: Oceanside, N.Y., Mar. 15, 1966
Family: Wife and daughter
College: New York Institute of Technology, B.Arch, '89
First job outside of real estate: Bridge and tunnel officer (all right: toll collector) for the Triboro Bridge and 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 New York City branch of JRS Architect while continuing to practice architecture with my strong client base keeps me quite busy. Future plans: continue to nurture the talent our firm has to keep the firm growing.
Hobbies: Technical wreck diving, making my wife and daughter laugh
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
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...
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