Alan Surrey worked as a designer and writer for the weekly Arts magazine The Leader and The Independent newspaper (North Carolina) for several years in the United States before publishing Contacts Creative, an annual creative sourcebook in 1993.

He designed and launched the Contacts Ceative website in 1995 and Produced an interactive CD-Rom version of the publcation in 1996.

Alan has worked as a consultant for Commerce International, (North Carolina), Auction Weekly.com, The Department of Works & Pensions, (Change Management Unit) Bluw Creative, The Fantastic Hairdresser website portal and The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Celebrity Memorabilia, Online Auction. Recently, Alan has been involved with script development for Independent Film production Company, Bluw-i. (The Visit).

He has a BA in Politics and an MA in Media Studies (Multimedia) from Sussex University.