Alan began his career as a simple programmer with a small firm that, during the 80s, grew into a major power in telecommunications. Finding that he had more skill at technical management than at programming, he moved swiftly up the corporate ranks as the industry took off during the early 90s. His progress was cut short, though, after a visit by Robery Landau, who made him the same offer he'd made to his other childer. Alan, however, refused. Shaken, he returned to his life, but it fell down around his ears over the next few weeks. His difficult marriage fell apart and his wife and two children left him. Depression set in and, two weeks later, while driving drunk, he ran his car off the road and was paralyzed from the waist down.
Unbeknownst to him, Landau had arranged all of this, carefully disassembling the life he'd studied so carefully over the last two years. He let Alan fester for a week before he returned to make the offer a second time. With nothing to lose, Alan accepted. It was not an easy transition and Alan is often disgusted at what he has become. He still watches over his wife and children, though he dares not contact them. He still lives in his old house, by himself, despite his sire's demands that he sell it and move somewhere he won't be recognized. He has also retained a position at the corporation he worked for, his absence being explained as a result of the accident he was in, allowing him to retain some control and draw an income (though not nearly as much as his sire would like in either case).
Alan was a compassionate man who, by the circumstances of his initiation into kindred society, has been reduced to a shell of what he once was. Riddled by guilt at what he's done and what he's chosen to become, he broods over the remains of his former life. Unable or unwilling to mask his melancholia, he is a fairly unpleasant person to be around, given to quiet depression but not to self-pity.
Alan doesn't particularly like his sire and suspects that he might have had a hand in the misfortune which led him here, but isn't able to prove it to himself. He has taken to just ignoring him, for the most part, and Robert has almost reached the point where he's going to Dominate his childe into some semblance of usefulness.
He is on decent terms with Kyle and Sheila, though they remain distant to him. He cares little for Greyson or his childe and can't really bring himself to care about kindred politics or even his former business. He has, however, found something of a confidante in Constansa, whom he is not aware is a revenant (or even, what one is). He feeds almost exclusively from her now, unable to bring himself to attack strangers or go through the seduction necessary to lure them into private situations with him.