User:Alancfreeman

Alan Cole Freeman was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1953, the son of Kenneth Allen Freeman of Texas and Lee Opal Cole of Tennesse. While growing up in Murfreesboro he attended McFadden Elementary School, Crichlow Elementary School, and Central High School. He graduated in 1971 and enlisted in the US Air Force. He served five years of active duty and served overseas tours in Japan, Okinawa, and the Republic of the Philippines. During this time he served as a Telephone Switching Equipment Repairman. He was honorably discharged in 1976. Afterwards he attended Middle Tennessee State University for a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication and worked as a pop radio disc-jockey in Murfreesboro and Nashville.

In 1980 he started his professional civilian career when he moved to Texas and went to work for Tandy Corporation (Radio Shack) with computers. There he was a technician in their software development department. He later worked for Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant for Texas Utilities in computer operation. He worked part-time in radio during this period as a morning disc-jockey, production manager and broadcast engineer.

During the 1980's he designed high-tech nightclub sound and lighting systems and wrote software for McDonnell Douglas Credit Card Verification systems and developed software for automating cash register reporting. He developed high-tech video clubs in Dallas and Fort Worth and Saint Croix, Virgin Islands.

In 1989, while working at Electric Works Corp (AKA The Management) he developed DIGITAL DJ, the first digital audiomation software for radio which stored music, voices, and commercial content of radio programming on a computer hard drive. This software was profiled in October 1992 on CBS's 48 Hours in a feature called "RADIO WARS." The software replaced tape automation systems the size of side-by-side refridgerators. During this period he helped revolutionize the news industry by developling an user interface for an the online newspaper Fort Worth Star Telegram, know then as StarText, then owned by ABC.

In 1996, he continued his broadcast automation career by writing software for Scott Studios Corporation that allowed disc-jockies to Voice-Track an entire four-hour show in just ten-minutes. The software was remote and could be used over the Internet. He also worked on automated school closing software and video editing software. The company was bought by Google in 2006.

Between 1996 and 2006 he also developed music automation software called WINTRAX for the home that controlled Sony and Pioneer mega-cd changers from his personal company, Wintek Software Company. Recently they introduced a line of software called EzDJPro and Virtual Cart Machine which auto automate radio stations, cable radio stations, background music, and such.

In 2005, he developed software for Dave Scott (previous owner of Scott Studios) to automate weather forecast. The software uses a library of 7,000 audio files and creates an actual voice forecast that sounds like a human; not automated. The forecast are in Spanish and English with male and female announcers.

Recently the software was licensed by XM Satellite Radio and AccuWeather for national syndication.

Alan is of British descent (both paternally and maternally) and of Jewish heritage. He married Tina Angulo in 2007 and has two children in college; Brian and Hayley. Tina is of Panamanian and Mexican descent.

Alan's hobbies are Camping, Genealogy, and Music. Alan plays guitar and piano. Alan lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and is active in radio software development.