Alex Cone

Summary

Serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of software industry experience in analysis, management, support, design and development of business applications, consumer applications and client/server technologies. Core strengths include Engineering Team Management, Agile Software Development, Product Management and Business Strategy as well as UX Design, Digital Media & Streaming, and Big Data. Specialties: + Team Management + Lean/Agile Development + Software Engineering + Product Engineering + Mobile Development + Full Stack Development + Video & Audio Streaming + Database Design & Development + Financial Analytics Development I'm officially CEO and Alpha Geek at CodeFab in NYC. I started my coding career at NASA, moved to Wall Street trading systems and as an incurable entrepreneur, have been a founder of a number of start-ups, including Objective Technologies, ThoughtPort, Medialets and CodeFab. I've has been a speaker at technology summits and on radio shows, and have actively participated in numerous international conferences speaking on enterprise mobile development and security. I've just spent a year as a Senior Managing Mobile Architect/Consultant for IBM in their new Apple+IBM MobileFirst team, where I was the senior suite architect for Government & HealthCare. In addition to working on our mobile applications, I also authored the IBM Swift Style Guide, helped shape the internal Swift and iOS trying programs and worked closely with the teams developing the server-side toolset for building the back ends of our mobile applications. In addition to recently being a senior architect/engineer on the iOS HBO GO team (reimagining how we consume video entertainment), Barnes&Noble iOS Nook team (reimagining how we read), and Apple Online Store team (reimagining how we shop), I also have over 15 years of trading systems development on Wall Street as a senior IT officer. I strongly feel that the transformation of our lives by the rise of mobile computing has just started, and much interesting work lies ahead. Specialties: Mobile architecture, engineering and user experience, enterprise scale systems integration, bluetooth and other wireless communication and control technologies.