By Carol E. Lee

Six members of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team for government operations worked in the Clinton administration, and one of them runs a consulting firm that has listed Freddie Mac as a client.

The group will review the nuts and bolts of federal agencies, from managing government property to hiring government workers to handling national archives and official records.

Linh Nguyen, who’ll oversee the office of personnel management review for the Government Operations Transition Team, founded Morningside Consulting in 2006. His company has since done work for Freddie Mac, as well as Wells Fargo, American Express, Chase Bank, Citibank and a handful of government agencies, including the homeland security and defense departments.

Before founding the consulting firm, Nguyen was a partner in Accenture, which began as the consulting division of Arthur Andersen and later became Andersen Consulting. Accenture is a company that specializes in consulting, technology and offshore outsourcing services.

Working with Nguyen on personnel management is Sylvia Bolivar, who served in the White House personnel office under President Bill Clinton. She’s now the special assistant to the president of a labor union that represents textile, hotel and food industry workers. She supported New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Democratic primaries, donating $1,000 to her campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Clinton administration connections in Obama’s government operations transition team run from a former chief of staff for the General Services Administration to a former director of the Office of Government Ethics.

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