Alan grew up in an area that would become the hub of the electronic industry. While he was still in grade school, his grandfather would give him small motors, gears, batteries, lights and an assortment of parts to take home from weekend visits. Being very curious, Alan would experiment and explore with these project parts. Later he would take parts out of radios and other electronic things and create widgets and whirligigs while learning about electronic circuits.

In junior high school and high school, he became acquainted with several electronic engineers who expanded his knowledge in the electronic field. While still in high school he started a small company repairing electronic devices. This became a busy and brisk business for a kid in high school. Also during this time he created several consumer products that sold locally.

During the 1970's Alan worked as an electrical engineer and product designer for Hewlett Packard, Varian and Raytheon to name a few. He never grew tired in his quest for knowledge working with other engineers. During this time he also became involved with Pacific Telephone and AT&T installing and programming telephone switching systems. Eventually opening a telephone installation company in San Jose, Ca. Always staying involved in the electronic industry often working eighteen hour days. This was a hectic time in his career, the demand being great.

In 1981 while doing engineering in electronic design and prototyping he bought his first computer. This peaked his interest in computer programming. After several friends found out that he was interested in computers, he was asked to help them fix the problems they were having. This led to a brisk business and in 1982 Alan formed a company to support and repair computer systems. This also led to a government contract working with mainframe systems and servers. There was always a never-ending quest for knowledge, how to make it better and simpler for the end user.

In the late 1990's Alan started an engineering lab at an elementary school where he taught electronics theory, electronic engineering and computer repair. Some of the projects dealt with robotics, environmental detection systems, computer engineering and gps systems to name a few. The computers that were built by the students were raffled off to the students in the program at the end of the year. Also during this time he taught computer basics at an adult education center for the Fresno Unified School District in Fresno, Ca.

In the beginning of 2000, Alan moved to Celina. with the intention of slowing down his hectic pace a little bit. He opened Advanced Computer Repair in April of 2006 in St. Marys. stating "I think the people make the community and this one is on the top of the list of great places in America. I think it would be a wonderful place to start a business and settle down here".

Advanced Computer Repair serves the community repairing computers, finding solutions to improve the efficiency of using computers and streamlining tasks. With almost thirty years repairing computers, Alan brings a wealth of experience to the area.

You can find Alan working away on computers at 203 E. Spring St in St. Marys. He can be reached at 419-300-9251 Monday through Friday.