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Life at EPA
  
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David Sutton As the Deputy Director of EPA's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), I help serve our mission to support the protection of the environment and human health by fostering opportunities for partnerships, contracts, subagreements and grants for small and socioeconomically disadvantaged concerns. The vast majority of businesses in America are small, and these small businesses employ the majority of American workers. So if the small business community gets more work, our national economy prospers. I have been employed at EPA since 1994. Before becoming the Deputy Director, OSDBU, I worked in the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response as the Director of the Resource Management and Information Staff, and as the director of the Acquisition Staff. Prior to joining EPA, I served as an auditor with the US Army Audit Agency. I am a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. During a typical work day, I will counsel small businesses on "Doing Business with EPA," make presentations at small business outreach sessions, review planned procurements to make sure adequate consideration has been given to utilizing small business sources, review prime contractors' subcontracting plans for utilizing small businesses, work with EPA program offices to help identify potential small business contractors, and work with EPA's Office of Acquisition Management (OAM) and Grants Administration Division (GAD) on matters affecting small businesses and non-profit entities. I came to EPA because I was looking for a change. I had been an auditor for a number of years and wanted to do something different. What keeps me here is that I love my job and feel that I am "making a difference." EPA is a very "forward thinking" agency and makes decisions through consensus building rather than by edict. What satisfies me most is when a small business or non-profit entity that I have counseled gets an EPA prime contract, subcontract or grant. I think EPA is a great place to work. |