Articles by Steve Oppermann
How One Former Federal Employee Enjoys Retirement
What will you do when you retire? Many people travel to places they have always wanted to visit. Author Steve Oppermann is one of these retirees. He travels around the world, when not conducting human resources seminars for federal agencies.
Posted: February 23, 2010 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Another Side of Retirement: Caring for Aging Parents
As we near or enter retirement, another aspect of retirement that may become part of your agenda is caring for aging parents.
Posted: January 24, 2010 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Like Talking to the Wall: Further Adventures in Workers' Compensation-Land
The biggest single flaw, in an astonishingly flawed system, is that injured Federal workers face a "closed loop" system in which they can never appeal an adverse decision beyond the Department of Labor.
Posted: January 3, 2010 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
Another Landmark Veteran's Rights Case: U.S. Office of Special Counsel Facilitates Settlement for Iraq War Veteran
Third-parties seem increasingly willing to enforce the rights of veterans. Here are several cases agencies need to note.
Posted: December 29, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
From Rio to Barcelona: The Further Travel Adventures of One Federal Retiree
What will you do when you retire? Here is a column from a retired federal employee who has opted to spend some of his time and money traveling around the world.
Posted: November 1, 2009 | Full Story | Discuss this Article
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Steve Oppermann completed his Federal career on March 31, 1997, after more than 26 years of service, virtually all in human resources management. Steve rose from a basic personnel management trainee at Fort Riley, Kansas, to Regional Director of Personnel for General Services Administration (GSA) in Denver in less than 10 years.
In the latter position, he managed, through four subordinate supervisors, the functions of position classification, position management and pay administration; external recruitment and internal placement, including administration of the agency's Merit Promotion Plan; labor relations, including contract negotiations and day-to-day contract administration with three different labor organizations with exclusive recognition; employee relations, including performance management, conduct and discipline, and benefits administration; employee development and training; affirmative action, including special emphasis programs; and personnel action processing. After moving from GSA to the National Park Service (NPS) in 1985, Steve served as Chief of Personnel Operations for nearly nine years.
In addition to 25 years as a first-, second-, and third-line supervisor and program manager, Steve gained experience in every human resources function, as well as in equal employment opportunity (EEO). He also represented agency management in a wide variety of third-party settings, and worked effectively with top agency management and with supervisors and non-supervisory employees at all levels of the organization.
In 1993, Steve won a Congressional Fellowship sponsored by the American Political Science Association, spending from November of 1993 through October of 1994 working as a Legislative Assistant in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii. He spent the last 2 ½ years of his Federal career serving as a senior consultant to the NPS on the most complex third-party cases in employee relations and EEO. For the last four years, Steve has served as president of the board of Volunteers in Prevention (VIP), a registered Colorado non-profit organization that mentors at-risk youth.
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