With 6 years experience working at large multi-discipline architecture/engineering firms in New York City, Ken Keltai has worked on projects for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Economic Development Corporation of New York City, New Jersey Transit, and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.

Ken's focus has been project management and design, working on projects from conceptual design through construction. His organization skills and familiarity with related design disciplines, promotes successful project coordination. Ken has brought a "large firm" organizational structure to the "small firm" environment, managing project CAD drawings and maintaining IT operations.

His project experience ranges from transportation planning and corporate campus development, to building urban plazas and streetscape design. Ken also offers expertise in the functional design of parking structures and landscape design on structure.

EDUCATION

MLA, Graduate School of Fine Arts,University of Pennsylvania, 1996

BA, Art History, Harpur College, Binghamton University, 1993

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
• Weeksville Restoration Phase Construction: Brooklyn, NY

ACADEMIC
• SUNY Buffalo Landside Master Plan: Buffalo, NY
• St. John’s University parking Garage Layout: Flushing, NY

SITE PLANNING
• IBM Yorktown Corporate Campus Expansion: Yorktown, NY
• IBM Poughkeepsie Campus Master Plan: Poughkeepsie, NY
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Hopewell Campus Master Plan: Pennington, NJ
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Lawrenceville Campus Master Plan: Lawrenceville, NJ

URBAN DESIGN
• NJ Transit Rail Station Plaza Design: South Orange, NJ
• Adams Street Roadway Improvements: Brooklyn, NY
• Merrick Rail Station Design Improvements: Merrick, NY
• Albany Corridor Study: Albany NY
• Comprehensive Downtown Parking Study: Hollywood, FL
• Library Place Parking Garage Study: Danbury, CT
• Roswell Park Therapeutic Garden: Buffalo, NY
• Hunts Point Seafood Vendor Market Development: Hunts Point, NY

INFRASTRUCTURE LANDSCAPES
• Van Wyck Expressway Landscape Design: Port Authority of NY/NJ
• Railroad Parking Facility Planning & Design: Metro North Railroad
• Kent County International Airport Landside Master Plan: Grand Rapids, MI
• St. George Ferry Terminal Landscape Design: Staten Island, NY

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dirtworks, Inc., New York, NY
AutoCAD Support
November 2002 -March 2003

Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, P.C., New York, NY
Assistant Landscape Architect
January 2000 -November 2001

Urbitran / Ramp Associates, Inc., New York, NY
Landscape Designer / Site Planner
December 1996 -January 2000

Gordion Excavations, University of Pennsylvania
Design and Documentation
May 1995 -August 1995