Alan is deeply involved in the planning and execution of Energistics (and previously POSC) standards activities covering data and information standards for the E&P geoscience and subsurface engineering business areas. In the past several years, he has been the primary coordinator and facilitator for the Data Management, Geology, Drilling, and Production Special Interest Groups and the associated industry standards including WITSML, PRODML, PWLS, and the Global Unique Well Identifier standards and services. Prior to joining POSC, Alan was engaged by Gulf and Chevron for twelve years where he was responsible for managing software standards, methodology, and software engineering tool groups. Alan holds an MS degree in Computer Science and a BA degree in Mathematics from Cornell University. He is a member of the SPE, SEG, ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. He has served for eight years on the Governing Board of The Open Group, since 2004 as Chairman.