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I am Nancy E. Odierno and I started my federal career at the age of 21,
coming from Pittsburgh, Pa., working for the Department of Justice. I was
hired as a clerk-typist. I was placed in Administration and Finance Division,
Budget and Accounting, where I stayed one year before accepting a Secretary
position with the Criminal Division, Narcotic and Dangerous Drugs,
supporting many wonderful lawyers. I transcribed material for legal briefs,
pleadings, immunity requests. I worked with DEA Special Agents and LEAA
investigators on many interesting cases.
My next civil service job, I transferred to the General Counsel Office with
Federal Energy Administration, soon to become the Department of Energy. I
worked with two different offices for 13 years within the General Counsel
Office. The first position was with the Office of Conservation and Renewable
Energy. I next accepted a position with Procurement and Financial Incentives
as a Secretary/Stenography. I was responsible to seven senior attorneys and
the Deputy Assistant General Counsel.
My next ten years were with the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management, working with engineers on projects such as the Super Collider
and Yucca Mountain. My last position was with the National Nuclear
Security Administration for 11 years, providing administrative assistance to
the Under Secretary. Much of the work was highly classified and I worked
long hours with the Under Secretary who assisted the Secretary of Energy.
My 39 years of federal service was a very rewarding career. I am proud to
have served my country.
I am David W. Pyatt and I served in the Department of Energy (DOE) and
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 1979 to 1989. I worked as
a nuclear safety specialist, developing regulations to assure the safety of 100+
commercial power reactors. I followed this up with leading research
programs to measure how effective these new regulations were, following the
event at Three Mile Island. From 1989 until my retirement in 2008, I was at
DOE utilizing my experience to provide an adequate safety basis to update
aging facilities used to develop our current nuclear stockpile. This was used
to address and consolidate nuclear waste sites, and plan for new facilities to
update our current and future National needs.
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