David Archer
Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium, President and CEO

Thursday, January 27, 2005
3:00 pm
ISI (11th floor large conference room)

Friday, January 28, 2005
9:00 am
EE 248, USC Campus

A POSC Update: perspectives on information, collaboration and standardization

This presentation describes POSC (Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium), its key activities and the standards developed during POSC's 14 year history. David will focus on the value delivered to the industry via the consortium's work on information management standards and XML-based data exchange standards for real time systems including the popular WITSMLstandard for drilling. New information standards will be required as the industry embraces smart systems. This presentation will address the evolution of the WITSML framework to provide XML standards for production operations.

Biography

David Archer is President and CEO of POSC. In this role, he is the leader of the consortium with responsibility for its direction, operation and communication with both the POSC Community and the industry at large. Mr. Archer is a well-known industry spokesman – frequently playing the role of organizer, moderator and/or speaker in seminars and conferences.

Throughout his professional career, David has had strong interests in collaborative efforts across both disciplines and organizations. He has also been very interested in new technologies and has helped pioneer several for the industry – among these are graphical user interfaces, 3D visualization, XML and Web Services. The two themes of collaboration and new technologies have been central to his tenure at POSC.

David is a native Texan, and he holds MA and PhD degrees in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University as well as a BS degree in Mathematics from TCU. Other academic affiliations include past President of the Rice Engineering Alumni, Adjunct Professor Mathematics at the University of Houston; he is also on the Advisory Board of the College of Technology at UH.

http://www.posc.org/