Specialties
- Complex IT Infrastructures
- Logic
- Impossible Problems
- Entrepreneurship
Things Alan has been doing
- Modernizing technologies to improve adult education and literacy
- Wrangling automation software to help improve the car-purchasing experience
- Empowering state lawmakers and local law enforcement to protect and serve the public
- Integrating systems to improve data sharing for the busiest airport system in the U.S.
- Managing complex IT infrastructure for diverse industries from media to money
- Being stage manager for his multi-talented singer-songwriter wife
- Walking NYC parks and beaches - all year round - with his three tiny dogs
Fun facts about Alan
- Got his start in tech working with one of the earliest computers
- Self-taught dozens of programming languages, from COBOL to Python
- Founded a company in the 1970s that sold communication cables to the U.S. government (which ran 4x faster than spec requirements)
- Developed investment analyzing software in the 1980s that’s still used today
- Is an avid supporter of live music, especially Harlem jazz
When dealing with something difficult, the smart thing is to just dive right in and learn all about it.
Alan