In today's social media-focused and hyper-connected world it is perhaps unusual to find a "good old personal website". However, I've been active in the software industry since 1983 and have seen platforms come and go (dare I mention AOL, Geocities, MySpace, etc.), so I believe in maintaining a web presence that is indeed reachable from anywhere, is under my full control, and is not part of any particular silo.
Nonetheless I do maintain a presence on most social media sites, too, so please feel free to follow me on Twitter or connect with me on any of the other sites on the left, but please do write a short note on where we met or how you know me so that I can approve those connections appropriately. If you're really old-school, you can also reach me on the amateur radio bands. My ham radio operator call-sign is K1XML.
Short Bio
Alexander Falk founded Altova in 1992 in Vienna, Austria; member of the W3C XML Schema working group that defined the XML Schema 1.0 specs; member of the W3C Advisory Committee; co-creator of the popular Altova XMLSpy XML Editor; established US subsidiary Altova, Inc. in 2001 and relocated to the USA; President & CEO of Altova; VIP member of the Kepler Society (Alumni Club of the Johannes Kepler University). Always interested in new technologies and creating new developer products that improve the software development cycle. As an entrepreneur and investor the focus is clearly on software, drones, IoT, and XML-related technologies. More career details can be found on LinkedIn.
Altova
Altova® is a software company specializing in tools that assist developers with data management, software and application development, mobile development, and data integration. The creator of XMLSpy® and other award-winning products, Altova is a key player in the software tools industry and the leader in XML solution development tools.
Altova offers a complete line of desktop developer software for XML, SQL, and UML; high-performance workflow automation server products; and a cross-platform mobile development platform. With over 5.5 million users worldwide, including 91% of Fortune 500 organizations, Altova is honored to serve clients from small and medium-sized businesses to the world’s largest organizations.
Rotary
I have been an active member of Rotary for many years, previously served as President (2018-19) of the Marblehead Rotary Club, and as District Governor (2022-23) of Rotary District 7930, which covers Northeastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.