Jack Chang - President
Docutel Corporation (1969 - 1977)
In early 1970’s he started worked for Docutel Corporation. Starting out as an electronic engineer, he became a project manager then Director of research and Development and then Major Account Sales.
He was involved and was responsible in the development of most of Docutel’s products during his tenure. Since 1974, he participated and directly involved with the sales of hundreds of ATM’s, including hundreds of travelers check dispensers to American Express. He was also instrumental in the sale of over 1,000 ATM’s in Europe.
Quadstar Corporation (1977 -1984) ; President
In 1977, he was offered a consulting assignment to design and develop an electronic payment transaction switching and processing system for American Express. He also developed plans and implemented systems mostly for banks and credit card processing service providers.
In 1980, he saw an opportunity to build ATM and POS transaction switching and processing systems as a business because of the banking deregulation. Very quickly, he sold the idea of first such system to Bank of Ohio and then to a series of other financial and retail institutions. Within three years, Quadstar grew to 150 employees and sold 110 systems worldwide. In 1984, he sold Quadstar to Citicorp, then Quadstar’s largest customer.
Citicorp/Quadstar (1984 - Late 1986); President
From 1984 to 1987, Mr. Chang was the head of a Citicorp company with global marketing and sales responsibilities. His responsibilities included evaluating the services, assets and intellectual properties of various Citicorp operating entities for potential revenue opportunities then develop plans and implementations to effect the opportunities. The revenue generation plans include design and or implementing innovative service delivery infrastructures, such as encryption, satellite and wireless networks.
His marketing and sales endeavors required him to organize and manage a team of U.S. based marketing managers and sales representative as well as to coordinate sales activities with regional Citicorp representatives in five continents of North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. During this period he traveled extensively to close major sales and interacted with high-placed prospective executives of Global 1000 companies.
Itac Corporation (1987 - 1990) ; President
In 1987, Mr. Chang foresaw the use of PC’s as the platform for bank teller and platform systems. He arranged with Citicorp to leave his then post and formed Itac Corporation. He led his high technology team in the design effort, and within one year, Itac developed a easy to use Windows application generator and database system by 1988.
For connectivity for the developed Windows applications, Itac also developed and marketed one of the earliest LAN-gateway systems capable of easy connection of LANs to NCR and Unisys mainframes, as well as IBM host systems.
In 1989, using the applications generator and LAN-gateway, Itac created and marketed one of the earliest PC-based bank teller and platform systems. Itac sold the teller/platform systems to several financial institutions. In 1990, ISC/Bunker Ramo (later on became part of Olivetti Business Systems), then the second largest teller/platform system provider, acquired the product line from Itac.
ISS (International Shared Solutions), Inc. 1991 -1998; President
ISS was a technology and business consulting company. To enhance its consulting activities, ISS developed, in 1991, a BPR (Business Process Re-design) tool that can analyze business processes and make redesign recommendations.
Mr. Chang and his team of technical and business professionals performed business process re-design and management and technology consulting services to Fortune 500 companies. The consulting assignments included:
Five year strategic operations and technology plan for NationsBank
A secure Internet-based credit card transaction system for Visa
Smart Card marketing and deployment strategy for VeriGem (Joint venture of Verifone and Gemplus)
Product market strategy for VeriFone, the POS maker
An electronic payment system marketing and deployment strategy for Unisys
Intelligent intranet system for Coca Cola Enterprises
Enterprise network strategies for Deluxe Checks and Ceridian Employer Services
Data security plans for Deluxe Checks and Ceridian Employer Services
Internet browser-based payroll data submission system for Ceridian Employer Services
Wireless strategies for EDS
Global-Vision, Inc. (1999 - Present); President
In 1999, Mr. Chang decided to be involved heavily with the Internet and wireless technologies and re-incorporated his operation as Global-Vision. The software products developed under the Global-Vision banner include:
High volume Laser printer control systems that can increase the printing speed and reduce the need for font and image management for most print processes
Developed an overall knowledge management system that combined the need for paper printing, Electronic Bill Presentment, information archiving and viewing.
Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems - Including integrating CTI/IVR systems with the Internet
An advanced Internet/intranet authoring tool (the Silverado) that can be used to create not only sophisticated Web sites but also intelligent business process workflow systems.
In early 2000, Global-Vision began working on wireless application potentials with Nippon Columbia, which represents an alliance of industrial giants that includes Hitachi, Sanyo Electric, Fujitsu and Infineon (the semiconductor part of Siemens of Germany). The result of the collaboration resulted in a marketing rights agreement of a semiconductor chip containing a smart card computer, a cryptographic engine and capable of high-density storage. Mr. Chang’s goal is to incorporate the chip in various devices (such as cell phones) for various applications, including a cell phone activated wireless payment system.
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