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# Employee Reflection: Sue Collins

By Kelly BurellDLA Disposition Services

                BATTLE CREEK, Mich.   –              
                Employee Reflection: Sue Collins                            Get to know DLA Disposition Services Contracting Directorate's Procurement Analyst Sue Collins.            SHARE IMAGE:Download ImageImage DetailsPhoto By: Kelly BurellVIRIN: 220104-D-D0441-217

## Sue Collins

### Procurement AnalystBattle Creek, Michigan

**Describe your job in a sentence or two. What do you do specifically?**  I provide support to the Contracting Directorate and to the field.  My job title is Procurement Analyst and I monitor the Federal Procurement Data System, alternate Government Purchase Card, agency/organization program coordinator, training coordinator, security representative and small business program representative.

**How long have you worked for DLA Disposition Services?**  All 36 years of my federal service.

**What is your favorite memory with DLA Disposition Services?**  All the awesome people I’ve been so fortunate to have met and worked with and the friends I’ve made along the way.  I think back over the many years I’ve been with the government and that’s what stands out. 

**What aspect of your current job gives you the most personal satisfaction and why?**  Providing support and assistance to my coworkers and knowing we are all supporting the warfighter.  That’s what it’s all about. 

**What is the best piece of advice someone has given you?**  Stay true to yourself.

**What kind of training and education helps your work performance in your current role?**  In the Contracting 1102 career field we have mandatory Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act training and education requirements we must complete.  I have completed all requirements and am Level 2 DAWIA certified.

**If you could speak directly to the warfighters you support, what would you tell them?** We’re here to support you in any way we can.  Thank you for your service and all that you do to keep us safe.

**Where do you see yourself five years from now?**  Retired.

**What was your first job?**  GS-2, Clerk-typist, in the Personnel Office.

**Name your favorite/recent book(s) you have read.**  Anything by James Patterson.  The last one I read was “Judge and Jury.”

**What is your favorite quote?** “Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.” – Unknown

**What did you want to be when you grew up?**  Out of high school, I planned on being a legal secretary.

**Who is your hero?**  My dad, who has passed.  He was the kindest person I know and never had a bad word to say about anyone.

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Tracy Hart, director of DLA Disposition Services Contracting Directorate said, “Sue is a stellar employee and I’m glad she is being highlighted.  She is very low key, tries to stay out of the limelight and does an outstanding job!”

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