Alan Doniger

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TOGAF® Consultant, Shell

Alan Doniger consults for Shell in the area of advanced enterprise architect professional development, training, and certification, as well as consulting with other oil & gas and computer industry organizations.

Alan Doniger worked for twenty years with Energistics, previously called POSC, a not-for-profit, consortium for the development of industry standards for data exchange, reference data, knowledge-information-data taxonomies and catalogues, application interoperability, and data management in the Exploration and Production (E&P) sector of the Oil and Gas industry. Alan served as CTO and was involved in the planning and execution of standards development and support, special interest groups, marketing, and communications. He maintained liaison with industry collaborative and standards organizations, including ISO, MIMOSA, OMG, The Open Group, Open O&M, POSC Caesar, PIDX, and PPDM Association.

Previously, Mr. Doniger was engaged by Gulf and Chevron for ten years. During his tenure, he was responsible for managing a software standards, methodology, and tools group. In addition, he was responsible for leading the development of a multi-disciplinary, integrated E&P data and functional model.

For the previous ten years, Mr. Doniger held consulting, management, and technical positions at Computer Sciences Corporation involving the communications, insurance, banking, manufacturing, and oil industries. He specialized in data base systems and software development methodology.

Mr. Doniger holds an MS degree in Computer Science and an AB degree in Mathematics from Cornell University. He is a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Mr. Doniger has served The Open Group's customer members since 1996, serving as Director on the Governing Board since 1998 and as Chair of the Governing Board from 2004 to 2008.