WE ARE

Passionate

Alan Wang

Alan is responsible for steering and executing the long term vision of the company. As a strong advocate of communication, execution, and technology he leads the company’s expansion while staying true to its core values. Alan attended Loyola Marymount University and USC where he studied film production and went on to study marketing at San Jose State University. Prior to joining Alliance, he spent over 17 years in the IT industry at companies of various sizes: Threshold Entertainment (Special Effects), The One Technology Group (real-time translation) and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle).

Alan loves being outdoors and staying active through cross training on TRX, swimming and playing tennis and basketball. He can be found cooking and entertaining family and friends when he is away from work.

Holmes Koo

Holmes is responsible for driving the strategic direction and day-to-day business operations for Alliance Technologies. He currently oversees the ongoing planning, development, and execution of Alliance Technologies’ projects while working closely with existing and potential customers to expand their digital media and E-commerce strategies. Holmes received a B.A. in Political Economy with a Minor in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. During his downtime, he can be found with Frankie the Jindo or on the basketball court improving his game.

Charlene Leung

Charlene leads the day to day execution of various ecommerce projects. She has a sharp eye for customer focused design and provides experienced creative and functional direction. Prior to entering the fast paced world of technology, Charlene honed her left-brain skills in Fund and Management Accounting at a prominent hedge fund. Charlene graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with dual degrees in Economics and Political Science. In her free time, Charlene enjoys making things from scratch whether it be building, sewing, baking or brewing.

Nick Hartman

Nick leads the creative strategy for our ecommerce projects. From print to packaging and web to apps, Nick’s intuitive ability to understand a brand and target market allows him to create relevant designs. He is also extremely versatile because if his extensive front-end developer abilities. Nick graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Geography in 2000. After graduating, Nick went on to work at ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in Redlands, CA. He worked on the application prototype development team where he participated in projects for various governments including the CIA, FBI, and NIMA. After two years at ESRI, he went on to work at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena CA, where he developed internet based applications and fell in love with the software design & development process. During his time at JPL, Nick started taking on freelance web development & design work. He also decided to pursue a Masters in Computer Science from California State at Long Beach.

Nick does not like to be disturbed on weekends, when he spends quality time with his wife and newly born son. He likes to build model rockets as it does not require meetings.

Armando Andrade

Armando leads the Development Strategy at Alliance Technologies. After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Universidad De Guadalajara, Armando worked in various positions where he built his programming foundations. He first worked for the Government in Mexico where he developed PHP and MySQL driven Intranets and Extranets for reservation booking systems. He went on to lead the development and successful implementation of a custom web-based ERP system that included project management, human resources, payroll, billing and expense control modules. Prior to joining Alliance as our Lead Developer Armando moved to the United States and continued honing his craft at various start-ups and digital agencies in Southern California.

Armando spends his time off immersed in Music and Culture and is so in love with programming that he dreams in code (mainly in PHP but he uses GIT to organize his dreams).

Megan Woo

Chris Hasbrouck

Nicolas Gonzalez

Nicolas is a LAMP developer with over 10 years of experience in both Front-End and Back-End development technologies. He is obsessive about always attempting to write a clean and neat code while balancing time and feature requirements. He makes it a goal to always stay committed to following web standards and best practices.

Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family taking walks or just being at home with good food and a good movie.

Sam Yi

Emmanuel Garcia

Emmanuel is a frontend developer for Alliance Technologies. His duties include design integration, implementing site functionality, and building/improving user interaction and content management for clients. Emmanuel holds a B.S. in New Media Communications from Oregon State University. His passion for media, computer programming, and the web helped drive him towards pursuing a career in web development. Emmanuel is dedicated to expanding his skill set and continuing to master new web technologies and constantly raising the bar with every project.

Emmanuel is a workout nut so in his free time he drinks a lot of protein shakes and lives at the gym.

Neil Ibrahim

Neil manages the design, deployment and operation of Internal IT/DevOps projects and Customer Infrastructure. He draws on over fifteen years of technical experience and an extensive education to closely align the best technological solutions with new and existing business requirements. Neil is dedicated to moving project plans forward and solving any quandaries encountered on the way.

Outside of work Neil trains gets excited about quality craft cocktails, spending time outdoors, and racing his sports car.

K.C. Lu

K.C. started at Alliance over 20 years ago in the manufacturing division overseeing the company’s electronics oriented projects. He has always doubled as our DevOps engineer in the Taiwan office and with the expansion of our technologies division, K.C. has started to transition to the technologies side of the business because of his true passion for IT and computers. With his natural inclination towards electronics and computers, K.C. has roots in IT going back to the DOS days prior to even Windows 3.1. His vast understanding of software and hardware systems along with networking experience allows him to leap frog into Cloud Computing rather comfortably. K.C. executes the technology divisions IT needs and allows us to extend our service and support hours to 24/7.

K.C. spends quality time with his family outside of work on weekends but can frequently be found scouting the latest tech gadgets at Taipei’s infamous Guang Hua Technology Market.

Jackie Heredia

James Park

Apple Lin

Apple facilitates our clients initiatives that involve branding, distribution and technology in the Asia markets. From Weibo to Ali Express she is well versed with the local psychology and marketing needs in Asia. On a day to day basis Apple helps our team execute the action items of design and production with our growing Taiwan office team. Previous to Alliance, Apple worked for 7 years in the medical devices industry where she was instrumental in helping to build brand equity through digital marketing and event marketing.

In her free time Apple reads a lot and loves to travel and explore culinary gems.

Cindy Lo

After earning her degree in Geography at York University (Toronto, Canada), Cindy decided to explore her interests in Fashion and obtained an Associate Degree in Fashion Design at Blanch Macdonald (Vancouver BC). Her passion for Fashion Design eventually led her to Milan, Italy where she received her Masters in Product Merchandizing at the prestigious Instituto Marangoni. In 2002, upon returning from her endeavors overseas, she accepted a position as Controller at Blitz North America, a premier Japan-based aftermarket automobile parts manufacturer. In 2007 to present, she’s been serving as Controller at Alliance Global Inc. where she manages all the financial transactions of the company.

In her free time she enjoys relaxing, dining and spending as much time as she can with her husband and daughter. We are patiently waiting for Cindy to design our outfits at Alliance.