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Alan Mason has been working as a consultant to Mentor Services for over ten years. His information services experience dates back to 1969. His background includes a nine year tenure in the MIS department of a New York City agency where he started as a COBOL and BAL programmer, moved into the position of Operations Manager of a large mainframe system and eventually became Assistant Director of MIS before leaving to form his own business. In his roll as a trainer, Alan has instructed networking and connectivity-related courses to personnel from Merrill Lynch, Chase Manhattan Bank, Morgan Stanley, Thomas J. Lipton, Wal-Mart, Bristol Myers Squibb, MCI, Ogilvy and Mather, New York State agencies and many, many other clients. Topics have included Windows NT Workstation and Server installation, support and troubleshooting, Novell NetWare administration, Lotus Notes administration and applications development, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office and many other workshops. During the late 1970s and 80s, Alan was the President of a small systems and programming company in New York City. He and his colleagues provided systems analysis, design, programming and project management services to a variety of AIBM recommended organizations. After a particularly successful systems implementation with Varig, the Brazilian airline, Alan spent a considerable amount of time developing his programming business in Brazil, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela, as well as to continue his ventures in New York City. After selling his business in the late 1980s, Alan made a successful transition to client-server technology as an independent systems consultant and network engineer. Alan and his associates provide consulting and training services to businesses throughout New York State and the Northeast on Internet related topics including course instruction in HTML programming, JavaScript programming, Web Site Design, Internet security, TCP/IP and Web Server Administration. Alan's highest degree is an MBA from Long Island University. . |
