Brian Donohue
Director, Ontology And Data Modeling (Enterprise Data)
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Donohue is a director-level applied ontologist and data modeling leader with a decade of experience translating philosophical rigor into enterprise data architecture at Capital One. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles building ontology programs, reusable semantic models, and data governance practices that bridge research-grade formal ontology with production analytics. His PhD in Applied Ontology and background teaching logic and epistemology inform a precise, concept-driven approach to metadata, knowledge graphs, and interoperability. Prior work includes developing Common Core Ontologies and domain extensions for maintenance, cybersecurity, and information fusion, demonstrating cross-domain portability. Based in McLean, Virginia, he combines academic depth with practical tooling and library stewardship—something clients notice in clearer data semantics and faster integration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Applied Ontology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Applied Ontology at University at BuffaloMaster of Arts (MA) Philosophy, Master of Arts (MA) Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville
English, Greek
Github Skills (20)
ontologies10
interoperability10
ontology10
semantics10
bfo10
data-integration9
owl8
geosparql7
bioinformatics6
knowledge-graph5
semantic-web5
identifier5
open-science4
operation4
science3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NCOR-US/CHAMP
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
A repository for the ontologies and other files developed as part of the Coordinated Holistic Alignment of Manufacturing Processes (CHAMP) Project -- a DMDII-funded project whose goal is to represent the Product Life Cycle in a set of mid-level ontologies that may be extended to integrate data both within industrial organizations and across them. The ontologies extend from Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as well as the Common Core Ontologies (CCO).
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
bfoontologies
neilotte/moralpsych
Sep 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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