Short-Bio
Alan Doniger is Chief Technology Officer for Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium,
Inc. (POSC), a not-for-profit, membership corporation to establish 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 joined POSC in its first year of
operation, 1991.
In his current role, Alan is actively involved in the planning and execution of POSC work
in the areas of standards development and support, special interest groups, marketing, and
communications. He led the development of specifications to support application
interoperability using distributed object technology and business objects. He maintains
liaison with industry collaborative and standards organizations, including ISO, OMG, The
Open Group, POSC Caesar, PIEBASE, PIDX, and PPDM Association).
Prior to joining POSC, 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 community on the Customer Council
Steering Committee since 1996, serving as Director on the Governing Board since 1998, and
as Chair of the Governing Board since February 2004.