David W. Gibson

David Gibson currently serves as Deputy Laboratories Director and Chief Operations Officer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  His responsibilities include, leadership, oversite, management direction, and execution to implement the Labs Director’s strategic vision for safe and secure operations.  Mr. Gibson previously was Senior Director of Environmental Safety Health and Quality at Argonne National Laboratory, where he ensured lab operations were conducted safely and in compliance with all environmental regulations.

He started his career at Sandia Labs in 1998 as an intern in the Facilities Corporate Projects organization.  He was promoted in the staff ranks and served in two team lead roles before being selected in 2007 as a detailee to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Office of Infrastructure and Environmental Management in Washington, D.C.

Upon returning to Sandia in 2009, Mr. Gibson became manager of the FMOC Nuclear Weapons Customer Partnership Department, responsible for sustaining the mission-critical nuclear weapons infrastructure.  He became manager of Nuclear Weapons Planning Integration and later served in two senior manager roles within Sandia’s Infrastructure Operations division.  In 2015, he moved to Sandia’s California Laboratory in Livermore, CA where he became Senior Manager of Collaborative Development and Operations.  In 2017, he became the Center Director of Sandia’s California Site Operations.