Ms. Cecelia McCloy is President and CEO of Integrated Science Solutions Inc. (ISSi), a certified woman-owned science and engineering firm that she started with her partner, David Dobson in 1999. Ms. Cecelia McCloy has a Masters Degree in Geology from Stanford University and has spent the last 25 years managing engineering and applied science programs. She has managed projects from $2M-$40M in size for a variety of customers including NASA, EPA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, DOE, DOD, and private clients.
Prior to starting Integrated Science Solutions, Ms. Cecelia McCloy was a Corporate Vice President of a FORTUNE 500 defense contractor. Desiring to make a change and foster a community based corporate philosophy, ISSi started with two employees in one location. Seven years later, Integrated Science Solutions has grown to 75 people in six locations across the US with over 85% of the staff with Bachelor’s Degrees and 24% with Doctorate Degrees. The firm has a healthy diversified backlog and instills a corporate culture that is employee and community focused.
Experience:
Dr. Dobson is ISSi’s Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President. He has more than 20 years experience performing and managing environmental and geotechnical projects for commercial, municipal, state and federal clients. Dr. Dobson is a geoscientist with broad expertise in the fields of environmental and engineering geology, geochemistry and hydrogeology, as well as energy and natural resource development. He has directed projects with budgets ranging from $50, 000 to more than $50 million, supervising the work of up to several hundred staff and contractors. The types of projects he has successfully accomplished include environmental site characterization and cleanup of military bases for the US Army Corps of Engineers, design of hazardous waste disposal facilities for a US Department of Energy national laboratory, and a feasibility study and design of remedial alternatives for the restoration of an abandoned mine in California’s central valley for a municipal water utility. For the US Department of Energy Yucca Mountain Project, Dr. Dobson managed the development of the site recommendation for the proposed repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
