Page 59 - profiles in civil service program 2018 version

of effectively warning the 30 million people in the U.S. who are deaf or hard

of hearing and in establishing an effective National outreach program to this
community . I was a founding member of the Partnership for Public W arning,
was part of Vice President Gore’s Partnership for Reinventing Government,

and served on President Clinton’s National Science T echnology Council’s

W orking Group on Natural Disaster Information Services.

OVERSEAS PRIVATE
INVESTMENT CORPORATION

I am LaWana Gray and I served in the Overseas Private Investment

Corporation (OPIC). As the Public Information Officer, I was often the first
contact the public or potential clients had with OPIC. One of the smallest
U.S. Government agencies, OPIC provides political risk insurance and

financing to U.S. companies making investments in emerging markets. OPIC
also partners U.S. companies with private equity investment fund managers.
Because OPIC charges market-based fees for its products, it operates on a

self-sustaining basis at no net cost to taxpayers. All OPIC projects must
adhere to international practices and cannot cause job loss in the United
States. In addition to contributing to the external communications of the

agency, I also served as Editor of E-News – OPIC’s major internal
communication channel. Before coming to OPIC in 1978, I served in the
Legislative Affairs Office at the Agency for International Development, the
Office of Foreign Direct Investment at the U.S. Department of Commerce and

the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

I am Lawrence (Larry) Hoeck and I served with the Post Office Department,

which became the United States Postal Service under President Richard
Nixon. I started as a mail carrier and through the years increased levels of
responsibility one level at a time. I would begin very early every morning

looking at the visibility data at the airports, where our overnight product would
be departing and preparing my coworkers for possible adjustments in the
event of weather delay of flights. At the end of the day , we would frequently
send a representative to the airport processing facility to inquire if any of my

offices were not preparing the overnight product properly . W e wanted to earn

56