UKUUG Biographical details

Alan has been an active developer and project leader for High-Availability Linux for several years. He maintains the Linux-HA project web (www.linux-ha.org), and has been a key developer for the open source heartbeat program.

He joined IBM's Linux Technology Center in March 2001 from SUSE, before that he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff for Bell Labs where he had worked for 21 years.

Alan also jointly leads the Open Cluster Framework effort (www.opencf.org) to define standard APIs for clustering, and provide an open source reference implementation of these APIs.