In 2000, I traveled south to Baltimore, MD where I attended The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) & received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. I then started working for the University with The Instrument Development Group (IDG). This was small groups of engineers that built scientific instruments from scratch for professors in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and around the world. As I worked for the IDG, I received my Masters in Mechanical Engineering by attend the JHU Part-Time Engineering School in 2004.

After over eight and a half years with the IDG, I decided to take a huge step in my life & leave my job to start my own Engineering Company. In January 2009, Flexure, LLC became a reality. Flexure's buggest clinet is NASA. We have been contracted to work on the James Webb Space Telescope.

For me, it has been a long road from my grade school days of watching the Apollo missions in my home town of Houston, Texas to being the CEO of a startup aerospace firm that is currently supporting the James Webb Space Telescope and will soon be supporting our return to the Moon and expeditions to the Lunar Poles.

I wrote my first business plan in 1981 for an aerospace consulting concept for the Shuttle Getaway Special program. In 1983-4, I spent two years in silicon valley creating a computer startup—Oak Multi-Computer. In the years that followed, I returned to school and was awarded two Bachelor of Science degrees, in Physics and Mathematics, from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Now I have come full circle and am the CEO of an Aerospace startup supporting the James Webb Space Telescope : Flexure Engineering. 

Alan J Kaplan is a 15 year web development and online marketing professional.

Alan's Internet career began in the creative areas of website development. As a designer, focus was mainly on brand, functionality and site usability.

Utilizing the principles of "don't make me think" web design, Alan's skills were quickly recognized by major Fortune 500 companies (Computer Associates, Symbol Technologies, Cooper Industries and AmeriSuites Hotels), which he provided development and design services to.

In addition, Alan partnered with major Industrial publisher Thomas Register (ThomasNet). Developing database driven websites with the use of major programming languages, and quickly became the go to company on Long Island for industrial and manufacturing websites.

Today Alan is a sought after online consultant and developer serving small business professionals, salespeople and corporations. Alan's philosophy is hands-on and focused implementation of his client's small business website strategies. His latest online projects are The Right Web Tools, LLC and a Small Business Education Video Hub.

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