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Jack is a dynamic, results-oriented leader with a strong track record of performance in fast-paced organizations. He utilizes keen analytical skills and teams to drive organizational improvements and implementation of best practices. He has a consistent record of exceeding goals and expectations. Ladson has superior interpersonal skills, capable of negotiating and resolving multiple, complex issues and situations. he motivates staff to achieve peak performance under tight deadlines. He is a hands-on leader that mentors and motivates staff to achieve new levels of performance. Excellent contacts in color related industries.
Jack has had a diverse career, working for many years in Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and in color technologies, with emphasis on developing and tailoring products, meeting demands and requirements of internal & external customers. Because of broad corporate experience and continuing education, able to tailor solutions to increase enterprise throughput.
Ladson is a well-known national and international spokesperson, publisher, and seminar organizer with advanced presentation skills. Pioneer new color technologies. Seven patents awarded.
In sum, relevant technical expertise and experiences in color and color science; and superior management skills enables me to solve color related problems for companies engaged in manufacturing in color related products.
My resume is posted below. Contact me for an electronic copy.
JACK LADSON’S CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- University of Rochester - Optical Physics
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mathematics major)
CERTIFICATIONS
- Certified Quality Engineer - 6 Sigma
- ISO Trained Auditor
TECHNICAL TRAINING
- Optics,
- Color,
- Color Science,
- Design of Experiments,
Presentations at 34 Conferences and Seminars
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
2003 - Present: COLOR SCIENCE CONSULTANCY - Yardley, PA
A global supplier of color science solutions to industry.
Responsibilities include product development, identifying and developing markets, and sales for products and services that deliver real, innovative sol, PA
utions with tangible benefits to clients.
* Developing color products to improve operational efficiency.
* Supplying color science consulting services and innovative solutions to industry
* Teaching color science, technology, and providing solutions.
* Clients range from large multinational corporations to small companies including
Proctor & Gamble, Datacolor International, Silberline, and Resource III.
2001 - 2003: INTEGRATED COLOR SOLUTIONS - Title: President & CEO
A developer of color management products.
Title: Vice President of Business Development
Recruited by company to develop innovative, technical and business solutions for PolyOne Corporation and to develop imaging-based enterprise solutions and products.
* Color architect for PolyOne’s Custom Color Matcher System
* Major account responsibility in U.S. to Fortune 500 Companies. Generated 4M in sales within 6 months, and personally developed 35 qualified prospects, including Sun Chemical, Proctor & Gamble, PPG, Dupont, Silberline, and CP.
* Served as European Sales Developer – secured overseas clients.
* Developed comprehensive product offering, introduction plan, and selling strategies for enterprise solutions.
* Developed website www.icscolor.com.
* Developed IT strategy adopted by industry that enables enterprise solutions.
* Wrote corporate business plan, corporate presentation, and investor presentations for soliciting financing.
* Served as international corporate spokesperson, and gained recognition at international industrial tradeshows and technical conferences.
1997 to 2001: ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES - New York, NY
A marketing company selling premier cosmetics.
Aggressively recruited by Senior Executive VP to develop and implement global marketing business strategy to increase sales, service, revenues, bottom-line profits, operating productivity and factory capacity. Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills to all levels of global management and staff that provided leadership, recognition, and motivation.
* Reduced number of certified suppliers in supply chain.
* Introduced new color technology - Increased factory capacity by 33% in two years.
* Improved manufacturing process using 6 sigma analysis w/ manufacturing
engineers.
* Increased product quality by two times.
* Rationalized pigments that reduced quantity of pigments by 69%.
* Supervised and managed 150 global employees.
1974-1996: BYK-GARDNER Silver Spring, MD
Manufacturer of color, color appearance instrumentation, laboratory equipment, and services.
Started as optical engineer developing products and providing services for color instrumentation company. Leadership and management skills “fast tracked” career to responsible positions in Operations, Sales, and R&D.
* VP of Sales and Marketing - Performed comprehensive market and competitive analysis through industry research that allowed development of strategic business plans, and the vision for the future. Developed and executed directed sales program with collateral materials. Secured targeted key accounts generated $1.5 million in incremental sales revenue by growing customer base
* VP of R&D - Controlled $1million budget. Developed, executed, & achieved planned departmental objectives. Developed, cradle to grave, electro-optical color and appearance instrumentation using cross-functional and R&D teams to fully manage product life-cycle. Developed POS systems for paint companies, color sensors for food, pharmaceutical, plastics, paint, textile, and ink industries.
* VP of Operations - Reduced COGS 15% by strategic partners, negotiating procurement contracts. Managed and motivated a staff of 100 with no turnovers and numerous outside suppliers.
* Achieved inventory turn of >3.5
* Developed Capacity & Production Planning Tools.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
· Secretary, Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)
· Past- President, Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC)
· Chair E12.02, Spectrophotometry & Colorimetry, American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM)
· Chair E12.06, Image Based Color Measurement, American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM)
· Member, American Society for Quality (ASQ)
· Member, USNC, Commission International on Illumination (CIE)
· Member, American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, (AATCC)
· Member, Detroit Color Council (DCC)
· Member, International Imaging Industry Association (I3A)
PUBLICATIONS SUMMARY
· 30+ Published Original Papers
· Determining the Accuracy of Color Measurement, Woodhead Publishing 2009
· Author - First Color Theory “E-Book”
· Contributing Author - First Color Educational Interactive Computer program
· Author & presenter – Applied Color & Color Science
PUBLICATIONS:
· Determining the Accuracy of Colour Measurement in Cosmetic Products, JA Ladson, European Household and Personal Care TODAY, March 2009
Analysis of: Tracking Color and Pigment Changes in Anthrocyanin Products, Jan 2009 - Private confidential communications
Total Measurement Uncertainty of Color Measurement. Jack A. Ladson& Fairman
· Coloring of Plastics, Charvat, Goldstein, Ladson; SPE 2007
· The assessment of Uncertainty in Spectrophotometric Measurements of Colored Plastics, Jack A. Ladson & Fairman. ANTEC 2007
· Assessment of Uncertainty in Spectrophotometric Measurements – Jack Ladson & Hugh Fairman, CPMA Conference 2007
· An instrument correction program – Jack Ladson, ISCC/IS&T/SID Special Topics Conference, November 2006
· Software for the Absolute Correction in Color Values and Calibration of Spectrometers, Jack A. Ladson & Fairman. NIP 2006
. Effect Pigments Instrumentation - A Review and Projection, Jack Ladson, RETEC Proceedings, September 2005.
· Protocol & Evaluation of Multiangle Spectrometers, Jack A. Ladson, April 2005, CSC Client
· Book Review – The Reproduction of Colour, Sixth Edition, CR&A, summer 2005
· The Absolute Correction of Instrumentally Generated Spectrometer Values, Ladson & Fairman, ANTEC Proceedings May 2005
· Technical Report on Sampling, Particle Size, Color, Sparkle, & Mixing of Effect Pigments, September 2004, Client of Color Science Consultancy
· Radiometry, Encyclopedia of Modern Optics, Elsevier Physics, summer 2004.
· Achieving a Multi-Spectral Virtual Reality IS&T's Second European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV 2004) Franz Herbert, JA Ladson, Oliver Unter Ecker.· Summary of Experiments and Methodologies Used to Evaluate Precise Color on Screen Locally and Across the Internet, Jack Ladson, ICS Internal Publication - September 2002
· Book Review – Colour Image Science, Color Research & Application, September 2002
· Absolute and Relative Colorimetric Evaluation for Precise Color on Screen, Ladson, Herbert, & Kirkenaer, IS&T, Nov. 2002.
· Colorimetric Evaluation for Precise Color on Screen, Ladson & Kirkenaer, March 2002.
· Leonardo 2000 – Ladson, Brill, Fairman & Hemmendinger – An Interactive Screen book, June 2001
· Leonardo 2000 Color Tutorial – J.A. Ladson – The World’s First E-Book on Color & Color Science, January 2002
· The New Munsell Student Color Set, J.A. Ladson, Book Review – ISCC Newsletter, August 2001
· Color Science in the Examination of Museum Objects, J.A. Ladson, Book Review, ISCC Newsletter, October 2001
· Appearance is the Total Quality of What We Perceive - J.A. Ladson, November 2000
· The Determination and Comparison of Errors in Powder Products by Various Methods of Specimen Preparation, Measurement and Analysis – J.A. Ladson, October 2000
· The Derivation and Use of Synthetic Reflectance Curves – J.A. Ladson, August 2000
· MAC StudioFix Color Evaluation – J.A. Ladson, April 2001
· Evaluation of 9 Black Pigments and Their Use In Cosmetic Products – J.A. Ladson, July 2000
· Finishing Powder Evaluation Jane Cosmetics – J.A. Ladson, June 2000
· Understanding Color and Sales – MAC StudioFix and Sales – J.A. Ladson, March 2000
· R&D and 31 Cosmetic Pigments – J.A. Ladson, March 2000
· Colorimetric Mapping of All Day Lipstick – J.A. Ladson, January 2000
· Estee Lauder Spectrophotometer Performance Evaluation – J.A. Ladson, June 1999
· Color Measurement Errors Resulting From Instrument Flash Source Induced Transient Photochromism, Spooner & Ladson, 1997 Proc. SPE-RETEC, CAD, Baltimore, MD, September, 17, 1997
· Measurement of Appearance Symposium – The 65th Annual Meeting Report – J.A. Ladson – Color Research and Application, October 1996
· A New Revolution in Colorimeter Performance – J.A. Ladson – DeFarbe, Winter 1996
· Situation Analysis On-Line Products – J.A. Ladson, 1993
· Goniometric Performance of the Color-View Instrument – J.A. Ladson – Technical Application Note, December 1992
· Automated In-Line Color Measurement for Quality Control – A. Huruza and J.A. Ladson – SPIE Proceedings, March 1992
· A New Generation in Process Control Colorimetric Instrumentation – J.A. Ladson – SPIE Proceedings, March 1992
· Reproducibility of Colorimeters – J.A. Ladson – Internal Report to the Company president, March 1982
· Measuring the Abrasion of Transparent Materials with Hazemeters – J.A. Ladson and R.E. Evans – ASTM Standardization News, March 1982
CONFERENCE DEVELOPER AND ORGANIZER:
Color, Color Science, and the Coloring of Plastics, August 2008 –Bancock, Thailand and Kuala Lampur, Malaysia – 100 attendees
Proctor & Gamble Conference – Documentary & Physical Standards – Their Creation & Utilization Industry, 25 Attendees
ASTM Symposium Effect Coatings – January 2005 80 attendees – Golton & Ladson
ISCC/DCC Color Science Symposium – April 2002 - 100 Attendees
Estee Lauder Global Color & Appearance Conference – 3 days – 1999 – 150 attendees
BYK-Gardner Color Training Conference – 3 days – 1982 – 50 attendees.
SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPATION:
2007 Cincinnati, OH Antec 2007
Baltimore, MD NIP 21
2005 Scottsdale, AZ ISCC/IS&T/SID Special Topics
2005 Scottsdale, AZ IS&T Color Imaging Conference
2005 New Orleans, LA RETEC-2005
2005 Boston, MA ANTEC-2005
2005 Cleveland, OH ISCC Special Symposium – Automotive Color
2005 Ft. Lauderdale, FL ASTM Symposium Exotic Coatings
2004 Scottsdale, AZ IS&T Color Imaging Conference
2004 Gaithersburg, MD CORM Conference
2003 Chicago, IL SCAI Conference
2003 Troy, MI Detroit Color Council
2003 San Diego, CA Medical Imaging
2002 Chicago, IL Medical Imaging
2002 Scottsdale, AZ IS&T Color Imaging Conference
2002 Charlotte, NC AATCC Color in Textiles
2002 San Diego, CA Medical Imaging
2002 Boca Raton, FL Color Cosmetics Summit
2001 Rochester, NY AIC Meeting
1998 London, UK 3rd Oxford Conference
1997 Rindge, NH 2nd Oxford Conference
1996 Orlando, FL Measurement of Appearance
1995 Berlin, Germany AIC Interim Meeting Colorimetry
1995 Greensboro, NC Textiles in Color
1994 Detroit, MI Auto Tech Design
1993 Newport, RI Color Regulation in the Environment
1992 Princeton, NJ Computer Color Formulation
1991 New York, NY Trends in Color and Fashion
1990 Cleveland, OH Color and Appearance Instrumentation
1989 Chicago, IL Color in Architecture
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
2008 Liolcnshire, IL SPE - Speaker Color Matters
2007 Kansas City, KS ISCC
2007 Baltimore, MD CPMA Colored Pigments Manufacturers Association
2005 London, England International Imaging Industry Association
2005 Cleveland, OH ISCC Annual Meeting
2004 Ft. Lauderdale, FL International Imaging Industry Association
2004 NYC, NY FIT Conference on Color & Design
2004 Palm Beach, FL International Imaging Industry Association
2004 Stockholm, Sweden International Imaging Industry Association
2004 Gaithersburg, MD ISCC Annual Meeting
2004 Hartford, PA PSCT Color Conference
2004 Chicago, IL Colored Pigments Manufacturer’s Association
2003 Toronto, Canada 2003 Cosmetics Summit
2003 Cincinnati, OH P&G Analytical Symposium
2001 Scottsdale, AZ Web based Imaging
2002 Charlottesville, VA Color and Appearance Symposium
2000 Williamsburg, VA 2nd Panchromatic Conference – Color and Its Surround
1998 Williamsburg, VA Color & Design
1995 Williamsburg, VA 1st Panchromatic Conference
1994 Williamsburg, VA Color of Fluorescent Materials
1992 Williamsburg, VA Images in Different Media
1991 Williamsburg, VA Colorfastness to Light
1989 Williamsburg, VA Color Discrimination and Psychophysics
SPEAKER AWARDS
Conference Speaker - AATCC Color Symposium
ADVISOR
Penn State Materials Research Center
1995-2000 Optics of Nanometer Particles
LITIGATION
Preparation of legal opinions and defense for selected clients
CREATED PRODUCTS
Comic III – Computer Color Formulation Training Program. Davidson, Fairman & Ladson
Digital Color Vision & Color Aptitude Test - Software program to detect anomalous color vision & color acuity. Fairman & Ladson
Mean Plus - Software program to correct spectrometer instrumental values. Fairman & Ladson
WEBCASTS
Digital Camera Color Technology Vision Systems July 2008
INSTRUCTOR
PENN State Color, Color Science, and the Coloring of Plastics. Feb2009
Cosmetics Conference IntertechPira June 2008
Thailand & Malaysia August 2008
Global Outllok for Food Color IntertechPira December 2008
REVIEWER FOR:
Society Plastics Engineers – Color Appearance Division - Technical paper Committee
ASTM International– Organic and Inorganic Pigments
Color Research & Application – Peer reviewed journal
Imaging Science and Technology - Peer reviewed articles
ISCC – Technical articles
