Summary
Alan Lovejoy is a veteran software architect and CEO with over three decades of object-oriented experience and 11 years leading his own firm, Strategesis, from Fallbrook, California. He specializes in service-oriented architecture, enterprise service buses, model-driven architecture, and semantic mediation using ontologies and OWL, often translating complex domain models into practical integration solutions. His background includes senior architecture and technical leadership roles at Fireman's Fund and Full Capture Solutions, where he bridged enterprise strategy and project delivery. Alan combines hands-on automated trading system development with executive leadership, reflecting a rare mix of quantitative trading experimentation and large-scale systems design. He studied Russian language and linguistics, an unconventional foundation that complements his strength in formal modeling and semantic interoperability. Notable throughout his career is sustained focus on aligning enterprise integration patterns with business semantics rather than merely plumbing systems together.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Russian Language, Linguistics, B.A., Russian Language, Linguistics at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (was: Monterey Institute Of Foreign Studies)
9th thru 11th, 9th thru 11th at Nevada Union High School
H.S. Diploma, 12th, H.S. Diploma, 12th at Santa Cruz High School