As Pathfinder’s Director of infrastructure, Alan is responsible for developing the hardware architecture, implementation and infrastructure management strategies for our solutions and our clients Data Center facilities. His mission over the last few years has been to increase Pathfinders clients sites uptime, performance and security while lowering the hardware and management costs through focusing on equipment that has a high “performance/cost” ratio, and the judicious use of open source software solutions for applications, application servers, security, networking and monitoring applications.
As the complexity of High performance, high availability environments has increased Alan has focused on the challenge of making implementation and management of the various hardware and software components easier and more transparent.
Prior to joining Pathfinder Alan’s focus was on international banking software. Alan consulted on many multi million dollar financial projects for 15 years in developing Banking and CRM software on 3 continents (Australia, South and North America).