Alan has worked in various fields through his more than 30 year career, including as a software engineer, consultant, trainer, documentation author, system designer and data modeller.
Initially working in defence fields, for the past 15 years he has worked in telecommunications starting with Apertio which later became Nokia. Most recently, Alan worked with a major tier 1 operator in the United States where he was instrumental in ensuring the smooth running of One-NDS and key to plans for the migration to SDL.