Alan works to preserve your investment in IBM enterprise systems by designing and implementing modernization strategies that leverage your existing business logic.
With a passion for open source and the IBM i, Alan co-developed the popular PHP Toolkit with IBM. He was one of the first Zend Framework certified engineers; co-founder of the NYC Zend Framework Meetup; and charter member of IBM/COMMON’s PHP Advisory Board. He has been called “the performance guru of PHP on IBM i.”
An IBM Champion and award-winning speaker, Alan hosts the CIO Summit and mentors younger developers in the Club Seiden forum.
In his spare time, Alan plays the trombone and studies and teaches the Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education.