Allen served as the national spokesperson for the Toyo TiresTake it to the Track program - which discourages illegal street racing.
Allen worked in steel production, fluid systems component manufacturing, actuator development and investment casting.[when?]
On 20 October 1998, he was awarded patent number 5,822,989 for his work in developing a fuel-saving clutch mechanism used in the heavy trucking industry along with co-inventors Michael L. Sturdevant and Edward T.
[citation needed] Allen appeared as Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music and William Harrison Brent in the Ohio premier of Perfect Crime at Chagrin Valley Little Theatre.
[citation needed] He appeared as Mark Ferris in London Suite and Mike Connor in High Society with The Gates Mills Players - where he also directed the Pulitzer Prize for Drama nominated play Love Letters by A. R.