Dori Ellis New Sandia Associate Labs Director

From Sandia National Laboratories: Effective May 1, Dori Ellis will begin her new role as Associate Laboratories Director for Sandia’s site in California. She replaces Marianne Walck, who has retired after 33 years of service to Sandia.

“It is exciting as I take up the mantle of responsibility as the new associate labs director for the Sandia site in California,” Ellis said. “Knowing the commitment and talent that each member of the workforce brings, I look forward to engaging Sandia’s unique abilities to tackle the problems that only a national laboratory of this caliber can hope to solve.”

Ellis is part of the new National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) team selected to manage and operate Sandia. NTESS subcontractors include Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Inc.; Universities Research Associates; Longenecker & Associates; and Sandia Technical Partners.

In her new role, Ellis will provide leadership and management direction for the site with primary responsibility for energy technologies, biosciences, the Department of Homeland Security and support to weapon systems engineering.

Ellis has nearly 40 years of experience with federal, state and foreign governments; industry; and academic customers, including 33 years at Sandia in New Mexico with programmatic responsibility across four mission areas. During her tenure at Sandia, Ellis served as principal staff director; chief operations officer for Defense Systems & Assessments; director of the Global Security Line of Business/International Security Center; director of the Transportation Surety, Nuclear Waste Management and Nuclear Reactor Technology Centers; and in a variety of manager and senior manager positions.

Most recently Ellis served as executive director of National Laboratories Operations, for the University of California, Office of the President. She also was director, Strategic Development Office for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

In addition, Ellis served as the U.S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency Advisory Board on Nuclear Security and as an advisor to the U.S. and Russian Academies of Science.

Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia has major research and development responsibilities in nuclear deterrence, global security, defense, energy technologies and economic competitiveness, with main facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Livermore, California.
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