Alan Howie

Alan has worked with data for over 33 years, with his first system analysing “Mushroom Compost” back in 1986 before starting his Computer Science degree course. He got into spatial data in 2000 and hasn’t looked back, working with some of the biggest spatial data organisations in the UK. Alan joined Registers of Scotland in 2016 as their Data Architect and in 2019 became their first Chief Data Officer.