President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Altova
Greater Boston Area
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- Secretary, Board of Trustees at Marblehead Little Theatre
- Vessel Examiner at Marblehead Sail & Power Squadron
- CEO at Altova, Inc.
- Member at W3C Advisory Committee
- Founder and Owner at Altova GmbH
- Past
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- Commander at Marblehead Sail & Power Squadron
- Member at W3C XML Schema Working Group
- Software Engineer at Apple Computer, Inc.
- Education
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- Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
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Alexander Falk’s Summary
Founded Altova GmbH in 1992; member of the W3C XML Schema WG that defined the XML Schema 1.0 specs; co-creator of the popular Altova XMLSpy tool suite for all things XML; established US subsidiary Altova Inc in 2001; responsible for marketing and corporate sales; negotiated key partnerships with other major industry players.
Always interested in new technologies and creating new developer products that improve the software development cycle.
If you need products or solutions for XML, UML, web servies, or data integration projects, then Altova can provide those for you!
Alexander Falk’s Specialties:
As one of the founders of Altova and co-developer of our flagship XMLSpy product, my personal areas of expertise are: XML, XML Schema, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, XQuery, WSDL, SOAP, C, C++, and UML 2.0
Alexander Falk’s Experience
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Secretary, Board of Trustees
Marblehead Little Theatre
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Performing Arts industry)
July 2005 — Present (3 years 4 months)
The Marblehead Little Theatre (MLT) is one of the
oldest continuously running community theater groups in New
England. MLT has won many awards for acting, directing,
technical directing, lights costumes and make-up at various
festivals including the New England Theatre Conference,
American Association of Community Theatres, and the Eastern
Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres.
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Vessel Examiner
Marblehead Sail & Power Squadron
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Sports industry)
June 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Coast-Guard certified Vessel Examiner under the joint Vessel Safety Check program between United States Power Squadrons (USPS) and the United States Coast Guard Auxilliary (USCGAUX). For further information on the Vessel Safety Check program see http://www.safetyseal.net
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CEO
Altova, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2001 — Present (7 years 8 months)
Altova accelerates development and integration projects with software and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy, MapForce, UModel, and other leading software development and data integration tools, Altova is the choice of over 2 million clients worldwide and virtually every Fortune 500 company. With customers ranging from vast development teams in the world's largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova's line of software applications and solutions fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs. Altova is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Object Management Group (OMG) and is committed to delivering standards-based platform-independent tools and solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy to use.
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Member
W3C Advisory Committee
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
October 2000 — Present (8 years 1 month)
Representing Altova in the W3C Advisory Committee
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Founder and Owner
Altova GmbH
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1992 — Present (16 years 7 months)
Established Altova GmbH - then called Icon EDV Informations-Systeme GmbH - in 1992. From 1992-1999 the company specialized in out-sourced development tasks and professional services for European corporations - mostly in the CD-ROM and information retrieval space. Projects included the Norwegian Lovadata legal database, the German yellow pages CD for DeTeMedien, the Austrian white pages telephone directory for Herold, the laser-engraver control application for Trotec, the ArtGuide museum guide, and various other smaller projects.
In 1999 Altova began offering XML developer tools with the introduction of its XMLSpy product, and starting in 2000 the company completely focused its efforts on creating outstanding software developer tools. From June 2000 to October 2000 my business partners and I completely re-engineered our company to turn Altova from a professional services firm into a software product company focused on creating the best software development and data integration tools. -
Commander
Marblehead Sail & Power Squadron
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Sports industry)
February 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Marblehead Sail & Power Squadron is a unit of the United States Power Squadrons - a boating education and safety organization dedicated to making boating safer and more enjoyable by teaching classes in seamanship, navigation and related subjects. Our members are boating families who contribute to their communities by promoting safe boating through education. We enjoy participating with our fellow members on the water and in the classroom.
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Member
W3C XML Schema Working Group
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
November 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group that defined the XML Schema 1.0 recommendation.
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Software Engineer
Apple Computer, Inc.
(Public Company; AAPL; Computer Software industry)
July 1988 — September 1990 (2 years 3 months)
International Engineering Group: Calculator, KCHR Editor (for ResEdit)
Development Systems Group: ResEdit v2.0 and 2.1
Alexander Falk’s Education
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Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
MSc (Dipl.-Ing.), Semiconductor Physics, 1985 — 1992
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Alexander Falk’s Interests:
Boating Safety and Education, XML, UML, Jazz, Unicode, Writing Systems of the World, Skiing, Dancing, Maui, Physics, Music, New Technology, Investing, Alternative Energy Sources, Hybrid Technology
Alexander Falk’s Groups:
W3C Advisory Committee, Kepler Society, Marblehead Sail & Power Squadron, MSPS, United States Power Squadron, USPS, Marblehead Little Theater, MLT Board of Trustees
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Apple - Current and Former Employees
Alexander Falk’s Honors:
SD Times 100 / 2007 - For the fifth year in a row, Altova was named to the SD Times 100 list of leaders and innovators in the software development industry. Calling the Altova product line a "must-have XML toolbox," SD Times honored Altova in the Tools & Environments category.
EContent 100 / 2004 - Altova named as one of the Top 100 Companies in the Digital Content Industry for third year in a row - www.econtentmag.com
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