Allan is the Project Director for Gibson Group and Gibson International visitor attractions. Allan holds an MA Hons in Social Sciences and Literature, and has lectured at universities in France and New Zealand. Post-graduate studies took him to a residency at the University of Grenoble’s Centre de Recherche sur l’Imaginaire at Chambéry, affiliated to the Jungian Institute in Zurich, where he studied under Professor Gilbert Durand, a former student of Jung. His primary work in critical theory was an application of structural anthropological and Jungian theory to a critical analysis of the novels of Michel Tournier.
 
In the production industry Allan established and managed his own media production company for several years, managed a government multimedia production unit, then became Senior Producer for Documentary and Factual Programmes for the Gibson Group in 1992. He has produced numerous educational programmes, TV commercials, television programmes and multimedia installations. For Gibson International he has been project director for all the company’s national and international visitor attraction projects, leading the concept and technical developments and supervising the realisation and delivery.
 
Allan has extensive experience in the management of interactive projects and the R&D components that go with them. He was solely responsible for the interactive design the Paléosite Interactive Centre for Prehistory www.paleosite.fr and the Cité de l’huître http://www.cite-huitre.com

He also supervised the French teams building those systems right through to installation and soft openings. For the Te Papa Our Space project he managed the R&D team at a grass roots level, setting micro-objectives in consultation with Technical Director David Crossan, ensuring delivery on time and on budget.