Joe Colantuoni is the deputy director of the Office of Human Resources Management.

Before joining USDA, from July 1998 until his selection to this position Colantuoni served as director of human resources services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was director of the Management Systems Improvement Group at the U.S. Department of Education from 1994-98. He began his federal career in 1974 as a hearings analyst, preparing disability cases for administrative law judges with the U.S. Social Security Administration in New York City. From 1969-74 he taught junior high school math in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Bob Whiting, the previous deputy director of OHRM, retired from that position following 40 years of federal service. •