Alex Lemelev leads research and development at Storage Appliance Corporation. Alex provides over 15 years of experience in the design and development of system-level software for the Telecom, Networking and Communications industries. Alex has staffed, planned and managed software development, testing and technical support teams for a number of. companies.. He was previously in charge of client development at Bitfone Corporation. Alex led the device agent development team across a number of innovative mobile operating systems, such as Symbian, Windows CE, Palm, J2ME devices at Mobile Diagnostix, acquired by Bitfone in 2004.. Earlier, at Lucent Technologies Israel (formerly Chromatis Networks which was acquired by Lucent Technologies for $4.7 billion in 2000), Alex was responsible for the ATE Software Development team for metro optical networking systems. After merging with Lucent, Alex became the primary integrator between the Israel and US teams in charge of the technologies merging and integration.. Alex earned his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.