Posts by Besar Dika

MKJ IS NOT PERFECT I have a secret….   One which my contemporaries would not encourage me to ever admit, but here we go….  MKJ is not perfect.    There I said it. Wow… E X H A L E  I feel 1000 pounds lighter – At MKJ and in my personal life (all the same, actually) mistakes, accidents,…

17… Yes, as in – it’s actually been 17 whole years that MKJ has been providing excellent outcomes to and for the NYC Transit sector. Personally, May and June are flooded with anniversaries and celebrations. Annually I find myself deep in self-reflection on life’s amazing collection of milestone moments: births, weddings, first kisses, babies, school plays,…

2023…We Got This As we zipped into the new year and are now flying through the first quarter– my site line is laser-focused on transportation’s busy and bright future. We closed 2022, with a collective sigh and with all our hard work in service to this great city’s infrastructure in the rear view.      To my…

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT It’s back-to-school season! Not sure how you’ve spent this glorious summer, but here at MKJ, the kids were hard at work. Summers at the MKJ office are always my favorite time of the year: flooded with interns, high school, college, and post graduate students with the widest array of skills, some engineering and some…

MKJ CELEBRATES 16 YEARS As the days clicked closer to MKJ’s 16th year, I went down the rabbit hole in search of a deep and meaningful explanation of the widely celebrated  Sweet 16.  With a giggle and a snort, I can report that these glittery parties are coming-of-age celebrations – a chance for the teenager…

MKJ PROJECTS SEEN IN TRIBECA 20 years ago MKJ came to the transportation market with a better way to integrate security and communication systems, setting the benchmark for a better outcome from design to final commissioning.  And in the past 16 years, we’ve changed the approach of completing integrated systems scopes – rather than waiting…

As I do my annual wind-down of 2021, a year unlike any other, that has challenged my staff (and customers, end-users, vendors, and colleagues) in extraordinary ways; requiring the highest levels of collaboration, expediency, patience, grace, and good ol’ out-of-the-box problem-solving – I ask that you join me in a collective sigh of relief and as…

Happy Fall,    It’s been a whirlwind of a year so far! As we focus on closing out a ton of projects per the fast-paced New World Order of the Transit World, some after years and some after what feels like seconds, we are simultaneously digging into a slew of new and exciting projects that…

Happy Summer,    The MKJ Team is still celebrating 15 years of bringing state-of-the-art communications systems to the tristate area, and as the summer flies by we are pressing the pause button to say “hello” to our newest product lines and “goodbye” to the project that has forever changed us.   OUR LONGEST PROJECT EVER: SECOND AVE…