About 4CYTE

Founding principles.

4CYTE is pasionate about the mobile domain. And this is evidenced by the secure, agile, field-ready mobile solutions we produce. Engineered the way disciplined teams do — small iterations, customer engagement, real feedback, translating into hardened solutions ready for the enterprise.

Core Principles
at 4CYTE

Our mission is to turn stakeholder goals and user stories into dependable mobile products — engineered iteratively, tested continuously, and built to scale with the business. We work customer-facing and hands-on, translating what teams need into touch-first software that holds up in the field.

  • Ship in short cycles. Agile sprints with continuous integration, regular demos and feedback that keep the work aligned with the goal.
  • Design touch-first. UX crafted to Apple Human Interface guidelines and platform patterns, so the app feels native on every screen.
  • Engineered for security. Hardened hybrid and native builds, encrypted data, and authenticated services across multiple DMZs.
  • Build to scale. Domain-model abstraction, data synchronization and service-oriented communication that grows with evolving objectives.
  • Test relentlessly. Iterative QA and automated checks that surface issues before release, not after.
  • Deliver maintainable work. Clean, documented modules and a support relationship that lasts well beyond launch.

The Founder

Built by an architect, not a template.

Portrait of E. Christopher Jones, founder of 4CYTE

E. Christopher Jones

Founder · Senior Mobile Application Architect

With more than 19 years leading enterprise and public-facing mobile work, Christopher is a customer-facing senior architect and lead engineer who takes a solution from concept to implementation. He founded FORECYTE Systems — the company behind 4CYTE and the iOSHA suite — in 2007, and has spent his career translating stakeholder goals into hardened, touch-centric software.

He has delivered native and hybrid iOS and Android solutions inside tightly controlled, CMMI Level 3, project-centric environments — most recently as Technical Lead and Senior Mobile Application Architect supporting NASA's Stennis Space Center. The work spans push notification and alerting systems, geospatial and remote-sensing analysis, records management and extending industrial IIoT processes to the mobile platform. In addition, the OSHA behavior-based-safety and compliance-auditing apps that became the iOSHA reference suite.

Christopher engineers with object-oriented discipline and PMI / PMBOK project practice, designing web-service architectures for secure SOA interoperability, background data sync, and service-oriented mobile clients that scale. Across his career he has shipped enterprise and public solutions with budgets from $25K to $1.3M, timelines from 90 days to 18 months, and user communities from 100 to 45,000.

  • 19+ years as technical lead & senior mobile architect
  • 35+ iOS apps shipped (enterprise & public)
  • Creator of the iOSHA reference & HSE suite
  • Senior Mobile Application Architect at NASA Stennis Space Center
  • Public Trust clearance (Confidential); Secret-capable
  • Swift · Objective-C · Java · Kotlin · .Net · iOS / Android
  • PMI / PMBOK practice · CMMI L3 environments
  • Computer Science, Maryland State University
Work with 4CYTE