William Doering is a principal director at Accenture, where he leads Accenture's Advance Metering Operation practice for North America. Additionally, he is a professor at Maryville University's John E. Simon School of Business in St. Louis, Missouri, teaching courses in data analytics. For the past 15 years, he has been supporting power and utility clients through many initiatives including smart metering, AMI/MDM, ERP integration, plant accounting, asset management, and data governance and analytics.