Anders started his career as a Mechanical Engineer with Shell in 1995, and worked in projects and assets in the Netherlands and Nigeria. After being confronted with poor data requirements and data quality issues in both roles, he became the IMIT team lead for upstream projects in 2002, where he started to develop Shell’s Engineering Information Specification EIS DEP and developed Shell’s first central project dashboard.
In subsequent years he got involved in industry data standardization initiatives, which amongst others lead to the development by USPI and IOGP of the Capital Facilities Information Handover Specification (CFIHOS) JIP36 standard, and the setting up of IOGPs Information Standards Sub-Committee (ISSC) to coordinate the work on data standards at an industry level. This has led to the development of a number of new standards including the Facilities Lifecycle 3D Model Standard (FL3DMS) and the CII-Advance Work Packaging (AWP) data.
He has sought to enable interoperability via alignment of data standards. The outcome has been a strong and active collaboration between DEXPI (P&IDs), CFIHOS, FL3DMS, CII AWP and others to align on common data models and reference data sets, as foundation for digital twins.
Today he is Principal Engineer of Data Standards and Technical Authority for Information Management at Shell. His scope includes data governance, requirements, processes, consultancy, competence development and auditing of projects and assets. He continues to contribute to the work of CFIHOS, the ISSC and USPI via roles in those organisations.