Alan grew up in Jacksonville. He lived and worked in the Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia area for 15 years before he returned to the First Coast the year 2000. Over the last twenty-years, Alan has held corporate communications, marketing and public relations roles at some of the most prominent countries in the world, such as Lockheed Martin, IBM, Unisys, Citigroup and the Nielsen companies. He has developed substantial expertise is every flavor of business communications: internal, external, executive and employee-focused. Alan has turned his talents toward the Real Estate industry, where he combines his communications and editorial talents with his experience in relationship building and management consulting.