Hi, I’m Alan.

I turn ideas into
practical tools and better ways of working.

I work across systems, processes and the people using them. I use AI to help build and test ideas, then work with people to put useful changes into practice.

Business systems · AI enablement · Process improvement

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Side experiment · A drawing activity

60 seconds · Music · Starts muted

An idea turned into a drawing activity, built and refined with AI assistance.

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My background spans education, telecommunications and small business.

The thinking behind the work.

A personal learning prototype and workplace planning: understanding requirements, adapting tools and helping people use them.

Personal project · Hawes Education

Hawes Education activity collection, with Foundation available and Year 1 and Year 2 under construction.
Private prototype · Foundation activities available; later years in development.

Making learning feel closer to home.

I’m exploring simple, practical ways to support learning at home. I set the direction, use AI to help build the project and review what it produces.

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Workplace project · School planning

  1. Understand

    Explore needs and constraints

  2. Adapt

    Design practical solutions

  3. Support

    Help people put it into practice

From prototype to adoption.

I adapted a teacher planning agent to Copilot Studio and Teams, working with an assistant principal on testing and rollout. A separate auto planner supports repetitive preparation.

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More of my projects and experiments

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Let’s connect

If you’d like to discuss my work, a role or a project, get in touch.

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Practical problems.
Useful solutions.
Real people.