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Customer-Member Candidates: Biographies
Elaine Babcock
Chief, Standards Integration (GE3), DISA
Elaine Babcock is Chief of Standards Integration for the Defense Information
Systems Agency (DISA), U.S. Department of Defense. DISA plans, develops,
fields, and supports command, control, communications and information
systems that serve the needs of the President and the Military under
all conditions of peace and war. She provides standards engineering,
management, requirements, analysis, and assessments services to DISA’s
major programs including Net Centric Enterprise Services and Global Information
Grid Bandwidth Expansion. Elaine also manages DISA’s memberships
and representatives to all non-governmental standards organizations.
Personal election statement Ben Calloni
Senior Specialist, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
Dr. Ben Calloni is a senior researcher in Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
company. His focus is the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and
Open Standards products suitable for Department of Defense (DoD) systems,
particularly in the area of Avionics. Standards based, validated products
in the area of safety (FAA) and security (NSA/NIAP) are key to the cost
effective development of these platforms. Interoperability standards
also provide flexibility in terms of mitigating proprietary solutions
on systems with 30-year life spans.
Ben has been active in The Open Group's Real-Time Forum for several years, more recently working on Multi-level
Security. He is also active in the Object Management Group (OMG), chairing
the Real Time and Embedded Task Force and serving on their Board of
Directors. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Software Engineering.
Personal election statement Alan Doniger
Chief Technology Officer, POSC
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/Forum Steering Committee since 1996, serving as Director on the
Governing Board since 1998, and as Chair of the Governing Board since
2004.
Personal election statement
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