Sandra L. Waisley
Sandra L. Waisley
U.S. Department of Energy
Sandra Waisley currently serves at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as Deputy
Assistant Secretary (DAS) of Human Capital and Business Services for the Office of Environmental
Management (EM). Prior to this position she held the positions of Director of Standards
and Quality Assurance and Director of Facility Engineering and D&D (stood up new EM offices),
and Director of Technology Development and Demonstration. Sandra’s first position in the EM
Program was Associate DAS for Budget Operations where she managed the functions of Budget,
Strategic Planning and Analysis, Human Resources, Information Technology, Business Services,
and Headquarters Contracting/Procurement. Prior to joining EM, Ms. Waisley was Associate
Chief Operating Officer in the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (RW), Washington,
D.C., from 2000 to 2002. Before joining DOE/RW, Ms. Waisley served as the Associate Deputy
Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Natural Gas and
Petroleum Technology, Office of Fossil Energy. She managed DOE’s domestic and international
oil and gas research and development programs, both upstream and downstream.
Between 1977 and 1989, Ms. Waisley worked for major oil companies, including British Petroleum (BP)
of America, Sohio Petroleum Company, and Exxon USA. At BP, Houston, Texas, she served as the
Production Manager of Geosciences for Eastern U.S. Onshore, and at Sohio, she was the Supervisor
of Geosciences for Lisburne Field, North Slope, Alaska. Ms. Waisley started her career with Exxon
as an Exploration Geologist, progressing to Operations Geologist, Senior Production Geologist, and
Operations Manager responsible for exploration prospecting, well planning, and drilling.
Ms. Waisley holds a M.P.P. degree in Public Policy and Applied Economics from the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor, a M.A. degree in Geological Sciences/Geophysics from the University of Texas
at Austin, and a B.S. in Geological Sciences from Cortland State College, NY.
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