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Chief Manager For A Company

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We interview the site general manager for a company called Bombardier Transportation. His name is Jeff Gaffney. His official company title is MARC Operations General Manager. Bombardier Transportation is one of two subsidiaries of the company. The other half is Bombardier Aerospace. The parent company is called Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Inc. is headquartered in Montreal Canada. Jeff Gaffney is only involved in the transportation division of the company which is headquartered in Berlin Germany. Bombardier is the leading manufacturer of trains and the third leading manufacturer of planes. The company as a whole has roughly about 72,000 employees with a revenue averaging around $16.8 billion. These numbers are statistics split between the two divisions of the company. As stated before Mr. Gaffney is involved in the transportation division of the company so that is what the interview was primarily about.

Mr. Gaffney was born in Canada and has been with Bombardier for 20 years. He has worked his way up from maintenance in the shops up in Canada to moving to Maryland and obtaining his position as GM for the Maryland site. Bombardier Transportation or BT has a predominant stay in Europe with at least 5-6 sites in the US. BT has sites in Miami, Orlando, LA (2 sites), New York and Maryland among others. The Maryland site has a contract with MTA to run the service and maintenance for the MARC train lines. They run the Camden and Brunswick train lines but not the

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