Alan started life as a Management Trainee for Ingersoll Rand in the Order processing Department.

Whilst working on a payroll project Alan was observed by the IT department using its resources to write his own programs in his own time using the training material that he had access to. Alan was invited to join thr programming team which meant he had to cease his HND Business studies to take up internal training.

Three weeks into training a member of the Computer Operations department broke his leg at football and Alan was requested to step in to support the department. Alan took to the position of Data Control and was immediately promoted to Computer Operator for a short time before taking up post as Shift Leader.

It was during this period when Alan went on a Hoskyns Project Managers Course and was identified as being a high flyer he returned with the recommendation that the company was to make every opportunity available to him and for his first test was tasked to write the Procedure Manual for th IT Department.

Alan proved his leadership qualities by not actually doing any work but appointed all the tasks out to the other shift leadrs and thier teams. Which his own team found most amusing.

Alan returned to programming developent as a senior programmer and returned to the Management team a Temporary Project Manager over the Business Ststems Analysis Team.

Alan then remained within the the Business Analysis team as a Senior Systems Analyst with all the benefits of the project manager to form a strong team with TH who managed the nominal ledger and Alan primarily look after the companies Payroll and HR systems.

In 1988 Alan Joined Hoskyns under Geoff Unwin where he had a great experiewnce - his skills being in demand nationwide.

In 1993 Alan was offered the position to Manage the Dairy Crest Contract - Which would have meant Alan cross training to mid-range architechture and relocating to Birmingham

Alan declined the opportunity as he was head hunted to join Peterborough Software, the countries leading exponent of Payroll. Alan commenced his first Limited Company - Extraunit and took on project management of The Royal Mail Parcel Force Payroll System

Alan convinced RM that they were deploying the wrong strategy and demonstraded the strength on havin a centralised data capture system. RM requested than Alan undertook the build himself on the strength of his performance and ability as a programmer.

By 1998 Alan had returned to employment in Manchester and had taken up employment for Sodexho as a Systems Designer. In the first few months of his contract he realised that the company had no tax year end procedures so he reverted back to his post as Operations Analyst to develop a system. Alan we co continue overseeing the Operations Analyst in developments undertaken for the HR and Payroll Team. Alan designed an autaomated procedures for application build which enabled unskilled programmers to construct the UNI2000 System. In 1998 Alan was assigned to manage the Y2K project for the mainfram project his last mainframe project.

I 2000 Alan left the IT industry as a paid employee to become a Community Guardian (BA019) where he delivers solution into his community

In 2007 Alan was appointed IT strategist by David Gosling of YMG - Young Masters Golf where he started his second Limited Company BBCommuniSYS Ltd due to the scale of the build.

In 2015 Alan reconnected with David Gosling and now undertakes consultancy for him, outsourcing his work.

Now 2017 Alan works a a provisioning officer for Verestar in addition to his IT Cosultancy Business.

Alan had been retired and was a vulunteer teaching assistant for Mancheter Adult Enucation Services

In 2016 alan sadly lost his son Adam - Adam was working on a project with Alan called The Golf Channel before he died and was tasked to run a golf tournmament.

Unicom is now Veristar that has a brand called Kinex. Alan has decided to call his next IT venture Kinex.Biz out of respect for Verastar and for Geoff Unwin who he once admired at Hoskyns durigh the great days of IT

Welcome to Kinex.biz

The next phase of the project may well be that Alan Starts his third IT Services Company called Verastar IT Services to service the Verastar Community of clients. His flagship application being a local business directory called Locuhl.

Circa 2007 Alan Semi retired, taking up positions is sales, field sales, taking further education and volunteering

It was during this time and through one agency Alan obtained a teaching qualification.

Alan gained teaching experiecne through Manchester Adult Education Services and is currently developing his own material on the subject of Sales and Management which he will market over the internet

Alans Interests are business and the enjoys the challenge providing strategic business services.

Alan is operates uder the banner of Community Guardian (BA019) and takes this role into his employment where he provides IT Services to his team under the banner of Infrastructure Analyst.

Alan enjoys working from home in his spare time woking on initiatives for his company - at Verastar this is under the banner Evolution P{roject which Alan contributes to

Alan has delivered his flagship product Protopage into Verastar for his own personal development / training and too support his team

Alan will gladly service your company - at no charge if the project offers him something that extends his skills base

Alan's next personal development projects are UML Lite and MVC evaluation.

You can review Alans Skill set at http://protopage.com/acmeindustries which Aln utilises as an assurance region for java developemnt for initiatives which he has developed at home for Verastar.

Alan has a number of project one of which he call The Generation Project where he teacher the fundamentals of Hybrid Web development. Alan has been a web developer for over 20 years is now going to offer his services at just £10 per hour after wich you will have built your own 50 page website using the very latest cloud technology.

After over 30 years in the IT industry Alan still has great passion and a thirst for knowledge he enjoys design and spends his days dreaming how he could improve his own work environment given the opportunity.