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Dr Alan Pollock CEng MIET

Member of the IT Sector Panel

Dr Alan Pollock CEng MIET
Professional Development Manager at Microsoft

Alan Pollock joined the IET Information Technology Sector Panel in September 2005.

Alan is a Professional Development Manager within Microsoft Services; he leads the developer consulting team responsible for delivering innovative enterprise class software solutions in the UK.

Alan started his career as an academic, specialising in the application of Artificial Intelligence to Computer Aided Design for Fire Safety Evaluation of Architectural Building Plans.  His work, in conjunction with the University of Ulster, led to the development of a new fire safety evaluation called Egress Complexity; this work was based upon Shannon Entropy and Graph Theory. Subsequently, this research spawned a string of publications and led to the successful completion of Alan’s Doctoral thesis.

Upon completion of his academic work Alan moved into an industrial research and development group at Bell Northern Research (now Nortel Networks). Here Alan continued to extend his knowledge of software engineering and began to specialise in the field of telecommunications.

Since moving into industry, Alan has continued to extend his consulting skills in a myriad of different software application technologies including: Network Management, Billing and Mediation, Operational and Analytical CRM, Real-time Personalisation, Business Intelligence and Customer Self-service.

Alan is an active IET member – he’s the business partner for Microsoft; he chairs the IET Working Group on ICT qualifications, which reports to the Qualifications Board; and he’s the University Liaison Officer for his local branch in Berkshire.