Jane Allison - President
Jane has been an artist since she was old enough to hold a pencil. When she was in high school, she also found that she had a great love for mathematics. For a career, Jane decided to combine the two and, after studying for a Geography degree, she became a cartographer. She started with the Surveyor General's office of the Province of British Columbia in the mid 70s, before there was very much done on computers. Throughout her career, her talents, for both logic design and graphics, have found her as a key person in the design, testing, and implementation of some of the most complex computer programs in all of government. Adding formal training in project management to her extensive experience, she has held supervisory positions in both department operations, and the software development projects to support them. She has been a key player in the on-going development of software to track the performance, and handle the accounting for the department. She has also written policy and procedure manuals, and processes models for systems development in the department. For more than 30 years she has been deeply involved in the evolution of computer systems development, and has been a key user of the results of that process. She understands, as well as anyone on the planet, how important proper design and planning is, if a system is to have any hope of meeting the user's needs. She saw a need for a company based on designing systems from the users point of view, with a strong commitment to doing things right the first time. She had the training and experience to know how to make it a reality; and that was the begining of Janor Solutions.
Norm Allison - Systems Architect
Norm has more than 30 years of business experience, starting with 10 years of sales, in a business to business environment, followed by more than 20 years developing computer applications for businesses of all sizes. Returning to college in his early 30s, he attended a 24 month, accelerated program that not only included systems analysis and design, but also incorporated accounting, business administration, and other courses to help him understand what computer systems were actually used for. Upon graduation, he hung out his shingle as an independent consultant, where, starting with small businesses, he eventually worked up to designing systems for some of Canada's largest corporations, and setting up financial reporting systems for the Treasury Board of the Federal Government of Canada. As a senior Oracle Application Developer, he was one of the many computer professionals that couldn't celebrate New Years Eve 1999, because he had to be at work waiting for computer failures that never occurred. During that long boring evening, he caught up on his reading of trade periodicals, and saw how everything was moving to the internet. He had managed to stay on the cutting edge of the technology in his industry for over 15 years, but now he realized that the cutting edge was moving, again. Norm began taking courses in Dreamweaver, HTML, Java, XML, Flash, and began reading every article he could find about what was coming in the new millennium. In 2001 he left a $70,000/year job to return to school full time, and then worked for a small web development company for several years to polish his new skills. All the time he kept looking at all of the tools available for application development on the Web, and thinking there had to be a better way. When he left the small Web Company he knew that there had to be a better way to run a Web based business as well. So, it was back to the book store, many long hours searching the Web, and thousands of hours of testing and revising theories. He created XBT, which is a completely different concept in how to develop applications for the Web. Norm has also spent more than 5 years teaching courses in all aspects of the computer industry. Mentorship of up and coming computer professionals is something he considers to be of great importance, and is a key focus that he brings to Janor Solutions.
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