Alan’s career has spanned 35 years working in mobile radio and IT for the Philips Group and latterly in the police service. He has worked as technical advisor to several major projects for systems replacement, working both with users to agree specifications and with bespoke software suppliers to ensure the products were delivered to those specifications.
He is currently working as a freelance software developer and IT consultant, with specialist knowledge of Visual Basic and VBA, Java and web technologies including HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP and MySQL. He has also done considerable work on developing applications for the Android operating system, and with embedded microcontrollers in both the C and assembler languages.
Although an advanced Linux user Alan is equally at home with Windows and Windows applications, and his abilities and experience allow The IT Trainer to offer training solutions of a more technical / programming nature.