Who the hell is this guy!?!

Alan's a 31 year old "E-Refugee". He's been retrenched enough times to be almost psychic about when and where it will happen.

No I'm not a web-programmer!

He started working as a "Roadie"/Techie rigging lights and projectors for TDC There he learnt the value of the 110 hour week. Alan worked all over Australia on many interesting jobs and for many interesting clients, but he was far to tired to remember any of them.

The call of the "dotcom" beconed, and Alan signed up with the likes of Rare Medium. Rare Medium was a large American webshop that specialized in acquiring other webshops and producing business strageties that would jack up the share price as high as it could. It was at Rare Medium that Alan work on large scale projects like www.soundbreak.com, Westfield's online shopping site, Fuji Xerox B2C site, Mallesons Stephen Jaques site, and a boat load others. He became quite adept at Java, C, PHP while there and it was also during his time at Rare Medium that Alan and his best mate Michael started the idea for AusPC Market.

AusPC Market was set to be the "techies/gamer" online computer shop, and at the time was a simple PHP site that proved to be quite popular. Alan was retrenched in late 2001 when Rare Medium started closing it's 13 offices around the world.

Ok I can "be" a web-programmer...

Shortly after leaving Rare Medium, Alan ended up at GravityMax.

Gravity Max was a start-up at the time, and 8 months after starting there there was still little for Alan to do. So he left to go work for EMC Saatchi.

EMC Saatchi was the webshop arm for the advertising company M&C Saatchi. Working at EMC Saatchi was very cruisy for Alan - the management there had no idea how to actually "land" a job even if they had a loaded gun to their head (which eventually they did, and ended up with a hole in their collective heads to show for it)...

Stop calling me a web-programmer damn it!

The Club Med that was EMC Saatchi was shutdown and Alan was a free agent once again.

Looking around Alan was put onto a company with the unlikely name of The Farmshed.

At the Farmshed Alan worked again with his old nemisis ATG Dynamo. The Farmshed was a portal for Australian Farmers to look up stock pricing and weather information. The Farmshed was a fairly challenging place to work as it had survived the "dotcom crash" and was still alive, but it was run like a german bootcamp.

The Farmshed managment had many somewhat whimzical and flawed ideas that the poor techies had to then implement. This was when Alan sunk to the lowly heights of coding Visual Basic for a net-connected farm management application called "FarmSmart". Farmsmart was an abomination of a program that required so much CPU horsepower to run that the farmers could use their spare computing power when they weren't using FarmSmart to crunch numbers for NASA.

The Farmshed was eventually sold to a company called Axiom, and Alan was retrenched once again. But not before he was contracted to Axiom to move The Farmshed's Colo rack to a new service provider.

Now what's he do?

Alan after becoming jaded with contract work for the likes of Telstra and such, he has finally ended up at his project company of AusPC Market.

AusPC since it was started 10 years ago has grown substantially and there was a need for a full-time coder like Alan.

Alan now lives happily coding away on whatever is needed, and also works on many personal projects at the same time. He enjoys blasting around on his motorcycle and whenever the winter season hits, he loves speeding down the slopes of Perisher Valley