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San Francisco Muni Multitasker
May, 2003 A lot of people say they wear several hats at their job. Kerstin Magary, MBA '78, does, both literally and figuratively, for San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency. From a hard hat on the assembly line for the city's new fleet of electric trolley buses to the ubiquitous Muni driver's cap she sometimes wears when meeting with fellow employees, this senior project manager is heavily involved in a wide range of capital projects. What's keeping her busiest of late is the massive coordination of a $230 million project for the assembly, testing, and deployment of 273 new electric trolley buses, part of which are made in the Czech Republic but which must include 60 percent American-made parts. The shells of the buses arrive in San Francisco where the final assembly takes place in an unassuming pier on the waterfront. Magary visits frequently, speaking with production line workers one moment and then with Czech executives on a conference call the next. Another facet of her job is to oversee the restoration of the city's growing fleet of historic street cars. Magary supervises a project to re-engineer ten 75-year-old Italian street cars for the city's system. In her five years with the agency she also has utilized her real estate broker's license to guide the agency's land procurement for additional yards and substations and other projects. And if that's not enough, she uses her pre-GSB marketing experience to manage advertising contracts for ads on Muni vehicles and transit shelters. "What I like so much about my job is that the end product is something tangible," she says. So tangible she can ride one of these new buses or historic streetcars every day. Also, the team environment appeals heavily to her. That was one of the carryovers from her days at the Business School—working on a team to tackle problems and produce the most effective solution. |
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