About Us

Jeff Bragdon is the Chief Operating Officer at RKA. He has more than 25 years of experience in commercial, residential, energy, environmental, and public transportation planning, design, project management, and construction. Prior to RKA, Jeff served as the Program Manager of Engineering Consultants and Associates for the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance (VTCA), was the State Hydraulics and Utilities Engineer for VDOT, and worked for several engineering firms in Virginia and New England. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science in Ocean Engineering, holds a PE in Virginia, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

Will Collins is the Chief People Officer at RKA. His background includes over 47 years of experience in human resources, employee relations, administration, community and government relations, and with leadership development. He graduated from Appalachian State University with a BSBA in Personnel Management.

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Stephen Greene is the President and Chief Executive Officer at RKA. He has a diverse professional background, including traffic engineering, construction management, and transportation planning and inspection. He is a leader with consistent success in building, growing, and improving the performance and financial success of companies and non-profits. Prior to his current role at RKA, Steve was a Project Development Engineer for RKA and was a Transportation Engineer II at the North Carolina Department of Transportation. He graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Ramey Kemp founded RKA in 1992. As an engineer, he has over 56 years of experience in transportation engineering with a primary emphasis in roadway design and traffic studies, including 12 years as a design/project engineer with the North Carolina Department of Transportation.  His experience includes preparation of traffic studies, signal designs, street designs, highway designs, interchange designs, drainage designs, erosion control plans, and traffic control plans. His administrative responsibilities included client coordination, project management, permitting, construction inspection, and coordination of the planning, environmental, surveying, and geotechnical work. Additionally, Ramey was individually pre-qualified with the Congestion Management section of the NCDOT for Capacity Analysis (Intersections & Corridors) and Traffic Impact Analysis (TIAs). Ramey graduated from North Carolina State University with a Master of Civil Engineering.

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Michael Bywaletz is the Director of Hydraulics at RKA and the Region Leader of the Charlotte office. He has more than 36 years of experience in roadway design, drainage design, floodplain analysis, and erosion control performed for multiple State DOTs as well as for numerous counties and municipalities. Prior to RKA, Michael worked for several engineering firms in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina and provided engineering services in the states he is a registered professional engineer in. He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering, concentration in Hydrology/Hydraulics and Transportation. He obtained his PE license in North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, Wyoming, and Nebraska, along with being a CPESC, a Level 3 Designer of Erosion and Sediment Control Plans in NC, a Level 2 Certified Design Professional and Trainer in Erosion and Sediment Control in GA and an ENV Sustainability Professional license.

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Tré Dugal, III is the Director of Design for RKA. He has over 32 years of experience in roadway design, storm drainage design, hydraulics, erosion control, utility coordination, water and sanitary sewer relocation, and transit and parking lot design. Prior to RKA, Tré was a Civil Engineer for 23 years. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering.

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Victoria Edwards is the Director of Marketing at Ramey Kemp Associates. Although she is new to the A/E/C Industry, Victoria is a dynamic marketer with more than 15 years of experience across several industries, including digital marketing, SEO, and events. Her team drives the evolution of the RKA brand in both the private and public sectors. Victoria is an active member of SMPS (Research Triangle Chapter) as well as an alumnus of North Carolina State University and Catawba College.

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Barbra Flick is the Director of Finance and Controller at RKA. She provides an eye for detail with over 27 years of experience in accounting and finance. Prior to RKA, Barbra worked in public accounting preparing tax returns and performing audits before transitioning to industry and serving as a controller for multiple construction firms. She earned her Master of Accounting from Virginia Tech before she obtained her CPA and CGMA.

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Jeff Ingham provides traffic expertise as the Director of South Carolina. He has 27 years of experience in transportation planning and design, intersection and signal design, traffic impact analysis, traffic operations, safety analysis, and NEPA documentation. Jeff was a transportation engineer at two other firms and at the NCDOT before working at RKA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Clemson University and a Master of Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University. He earned a PE license in South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina, and PTOE license, and a Level Two Road Safety Professional license.

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Jay McInnis is the Director of Project Development at RKA. He has over 30 years of experience in project development and NEPA/SEPA documentation. Jay conducts project development studies, prepares environmental documentation, assists with traffic noise and air quality studies, and provides QA/QC for the reports. He previously worked as a Transportation Engineering Supervisor for NCDOT PDEA and has extensive knowledge of the NCDOT project delivery process. Jay graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering before obtaining his PE license in North Carolina.

Tamara Patterson is the Director of Accounting at RKA. She is meticulous, with over 20 years of experience. Before RKA, Tamara was the Director of Finance for a non-profit international association of professionals known as the IIBEC. She earned her Associate of Accounting from Durham Technical College.

Mike Payne is the Director of General Accounting. He has more than 30 years of experience in the engineering, architecture & planning industry. Mike’s skillset includes corporate accounting, internal controls, treasury, accounts payable/receivables, strategic planning, and streamlining processes and procedures. He graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.

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Michael Dennis is a Transportation Planning Lead at RKA. He handles all travel demand modeling, works on numerous major simulation projects using Transmodern software, and has been the project engineer for several major traffic projects. Prior to joining RKA, Mr. Dennis held numerous roles at SCDOT. Michael graduated from Clemson University with a Master of Environmental System Engineering and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering. He obtained his PE license in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.

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Jennifer Gates is RKA’s Senior Grant Writer.  She coordinates the work plans and timelines of submissions for local, state and federal grant applications. These include FEMA, NHTSA, and Safe Routes to schools(federal/state level). Jennifer also researches and identifies sources of funding for local cities and counties.
Her past work in Private Foundation Funding was crucial in securing over 5.5 million in grant funding for local, state, and federal funding sources. She has experience in Traffic Safety, Injury Prevention, Fire Prevention, Communications(radio), alternate forms of Mobility, and Community Wellness Grants. Additionally, Jennifer has secured Safe Routes to schools and walkable communities’ grants, establishing sidewalks in communities and school areas.

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Evan Gittelman is RKA’s Traffic Engineering Project Manager for Northern Virginia. He has extensive experience in traffic, parking, and transportation planning and engineering. His work includes site traffic impact studies, shared parking analyses, parking design and layout evaluation, town center studies and design, parking management plans, site circulation assessments, preparation of transportation demand management plans, transit, pedestrian, and bicycle analyses, and transportation analyses of large-scale mixed-use developments.

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Lucas Helms is the State Transportation Lead of North Carolina at RKA. His experience includes work in roadway design and traffic engineering, included roadway and storm drainage design, utility and railroad coordination, construction administration, and the preparation of traffic impact studies, roadway plans, traffic control plans, and pavement marking plans. He is proficient in Microstation, Geopak, and AutoCAD Civil 3D. Lucas graduated from North Carolina State University with a Master of Civil Engineering and later obtained a Professional Engineering license in North Carolina.

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John Schick is a NC Traffic Engineering Lead at RKA. He has more than 10 years of experience performing traffic engineering and planning work throughout the Southeast for private- and public-sector clients and developers. His work has involved mixed-use, transit-oriented, residential, commercial, and institutional projects, with a focus on traffic engineering, transportation planning, multimodal analyses, parking analysis and design, transportation demand management, site planning, and traffic impact analyses. John is Professional Transportation Planner (PTP) and a graduate of Penn State University with a Bachelors or Science in Civil Engineering.

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Grady Vaughan serves RKA’s Northern Virginia clients as Traffic Engineering Lead. He has nine years of experience in the transportation engineering field. Has been a part of mulitidisciplinary teams assisting private and public developers to address transportation issues/concerns. Experience Specifically includes traffic Impacts studies, site planning and feasibility studies, crosswalk studies, signal warrant studies, speed studies, parking analyses, and master plan design. He also has experience working with a variety of mixed use developments.