A Career In Transit

Levine worked nearly a decade for the U.S. Catholic Conference, where he did production-oriented print jobs, before moving to WMATA 25 years ago as the head of printing. Once there, he took charge of two reorganized facilities that included a satellite copy center run by Xerox.

The main print shop had two duplicators and an unreliable single-color 29˝ Harris press. Since then, despite the fact that his $3.25 million annual budget has hardly increased over the years, Levine has toiled to build a stronger operation. He is proud that he was able to build up his shop by scrounging surplus property and buying, trading or rebuilding equipment in a slow, steady fashion.