Experience

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  ACD Consulting Solutions, LLC

  • Houston, Texas

  • Owner

    • Oct 2010 - Present
    • Houston, Texas

    Mr. Doniger formed ACD Consulting Solutions in 2010 to help customers with data, process and technology initiatives, particularly in the area of energy industry -- upstream oil & gas.He brought experience from 40 years focused on industry-wide initiatives and standards formulation in the energy, as well as in the communications and health insurance, including nearly 20 years working at Energistics and its predecessor POSC. This provided a valuable and unique perspective about the motivation and dynamics of organizations -- their operations, their use of commercial products and services, and their sponsorship and involvement with industry standards. In-depth experience came from work for Chevron (and predecessor Gulf Oil) as well with clients of Computer Sciences Corporation -- including large, industry-standards based development of systems for use across all companies in an industry.The mantra of ACD Consulting Solutions is "Attentiveness, Collaboration, and Success", that is, to be attentive to real business needs, to collaborate with the real stakeholders, and to succeed by delivering real value. Efforts to achieve operational business integration and efficiency must be driven by strategic needs and make best use of a combination of commercial offerings, open industry standards, and in-house innovations. Specific needs will be addressed, but this must be done in the context of the strategic principles.From 2015, Mr. Doniger worked full-time with Shell where an energy-industry standards-based software platform for cloud operations emerged. The internal initiative migrated to an Open Group hosted consortium in 2018,, known as the OSDU Forum.From Mr. Doniger's retirement from Shell in March 2022, ACD Consulting Solutions took its place as an active member of the OSDU Forum actively participating and guiding, and offering assistance to all types of industry organizations to accelerate and grow benefits from OSDU Forum-based participation, contributions, and use.

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  The Open Group

  • Principal offices in San Francisco and London.

  • Governing Board Member

    • 1998 - Present
    • Principal offices in San Francisco and London.

    Governing Board customer member representative from 1998 through 2024. Governing Board Chairman from 2005 through 2008Governing Board Vice Chairman from 2002 through 2004 and 2021 through 2023.

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  Shell

  • Houston, Texas Area

  • Senior Enterprise Architect

    • Jan 2015 - Mar 2022
    • Houston, Texas Area

    Lead Information and Data Architect: Subsurface and Wells, Project Engineering, Contracts and Procurement, Upstream Functions. Leading architect of the transformative strategic initiative that flourished into the internal Subsurface Data Universe (SDU) from late 2017 and the OpenGroup hosted industry wide OSDU Forum from late 2018 with emphasis on the overall data-centric story.

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  Energistics

  • United States
  • Oil and Gas
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Principal Consultant

    • Apr 2010 - Sep 2011

  • CTO

    • Nov 2006 - Apr 2010

    Led standards development and adoption support activities.

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  Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium (POSC)

  • CTO

    • Jan 2004 - Nov 2006

    Led standards development and adoption support activities. Acting CEO from September 2005 to January 2006.

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  Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation (POSC)

  • Director of Technology

    • Mar 1994 - Jan 2004

    Advisor to the CEO and the entire organization on matters related to standards development, deployment, and use.

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  Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation (POSC)

  • Data Access Project Leader

    • Mar 1991 - Jan 1994

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  Chevron

  • Quality Assurance Section Supervisor

    • Apr 1985 - Mar 1991

    Led software methodology and tools group for the Exploration and Production technology company.

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  Gulf Oil Corporation (merged with Chevron in 1985)

  • Software Applications Supervisor and Technology Specialist

    • Mar 1981 - Apr 1985

    Production accounting software applications group supervisor. Software methodology and tools technical specialist.

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  Computer Sciences Corporation

  • Center Manager, Sr Member Advisory Staff, etc.

    • Apr 1971 - Apr 1981

    Management and technical roles in long-term and short-term software development and consulting engagements with clients in the telecommunications, insurance, banking, manufacturing, and energy industries.

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  Cornell University

  • Sr Systems Analyst, et. al.

    • Sep 1965 - Mar 1971

    Worked part-time to design and develop software application systems for Cornell University, including payroll, alumni, and computer use accounting systems, and to supported research projects of resident professors.