Jack KOZAN
Lotissement Beausoleil jacky@kozan.fr
F-26510 REMUZAT
(FRANCE)
EXECUTIVE - CONSULTANT - START UP SPECIALIST -
MICROTECHNOLOGIES
SUMMARY:
Management
of start up, microbiology / microelectronic
10 years
Product Marketing ASIC &
CAD
12 years
Design / ASIC (PMOS, CMOS, ECL, SAW,
etc...) 4 years
Engineering / Aerospace
mechanical
6
years
Set up: operations including QA,
commercial activities,
administration including accounting
Launching: new products, new
services, new activities
Internet sites and shops preparation
Excellent business and technical
expertise
Excellent communication
Prefer PC, Windows, MS Office,
Mozilla, Plume CMS, Actinic...
CURSUS:
MANAGEMENT (10 years)
Set up the Quality Assurance service
Preparation at the conformity to ISO 9001
rules
Coordination of the production, planing
Coordination of all the services of the
company, creation of the forms to use in
the company (paper or files)
Data processing equipment maintenance
(hard/software and net)
Started
"Export activity" and the Field Service department
References: Guy Occhipinti, Laurent Casavecchi
Supervisor: Thierry Nicoloff (Boss)
Why left? : The Boss sold his company
after a fast growing of the net
sales and need of cash. (New boss, new management)
Industrialization and marketing of
the "Vacci-Test", an innovative product for medical diagnostics developed by
"Institut Pasteur de Paris"
Customers
: Hospitals, private laboratories of medical analyses
Competitors: None (innovation)
References:
Supervisor: The shareholders, mainly Len
Speer (
Why left? : Not enough cash, I closed the company
Manufacturing and marketing culture
media for Bacteriology
A new concept and a product of substitution for
the medical diagnostics
Customers
: Private or National laboratories of medical analyses
Competitors: BIO-MERIEUX, PASTEUR, BECTON-DICKINSON, etc...
Supervisor: Claude
GUENAIS (President and main shareholder)
Why left? : mission
completed
April 1988 to June 1991 - SoFinTech (SOciété de FINancement de TECHnologies) - Director of the Holding
About 20 financial & technical
surveys in order to buy companies or to launch new companies
Launching IBS DIAGNOSTIC, MIKASOBE, SPEP
SPECTRAL
Supervisor: Claude
GUENAIS (President and main shareholder)
Why left? : to start myself the new subsidiary "IBS Diagnostic"
Feb. 1989 to March
1995 - MIKASOBE (Aubagne-France) - Director
New technology for Jewelry, application of
the maskmaking technique.
Very small company just existing for the
feasibility and a marketing survey regarding an innovative product
Supervisor: Claude
GUENAIS (President and main shareholder)
Why left? : prototypes finished and marketing survey completed
1979 to 1981 - Custom Integration International (EVRY-France) - Co-founder and General Manager
First private and merchant French
company designing semiconductor custom integrated circuits(ASIC).
References: Jean Marcel Lagorse, Jean Polard,
Daniel Legal
Why left? : Not
enough cash, I closed the company
Starting new activities of mask
manufacturing for Integrated Circuits, in order to use the optical equipment (unused)
of the company.
Dupont De Nemours bought Nanomask in 89 and got
40% of the European market of mask manufacturing
References: Jean-Jacques
Loonis, Jean-Claude Alicari, Thierry Capelle
Supervisor: Claude
Barre
Why left? : New shareholders, new management
Industrial ink jet printers. Restructuration of one difficult
commercial region (Alsace-France)
Supervisor: Alain
Young
Why left? : Temporary job waiting to be back in semiconductor
1986 to 1987 - C.a.r.m.e. (BORDEAUX-France) - Product Marketing – S.E.M.
Application and
First private lab. launched to develop the
"Scientific Police", my action was to develop the new
"Electronic" activity
Quality analysis, failure analysis
of electronic components and more especially Integrated
Circuits ( Standards and Customs)
References:
Loïc LeRibault, Philippe Lambert
Supervisor: Philippe Trias
Why left? : not
enough market, too early for that application
Starting the new activity
"ASIC", for civil applications
Definition, specification of the
"Civil" products and services
Set up CAD equipment, customers training
courses (internal and external customers), assistance, marketing and sales
tools
Determination of the costs
Elaboration of the short term marketing
strategy
References: Marc Lassus,
Supervisors: Georges Grunberg, Jean Michard,
Zenik Horbowy
Why left?
: After the agreement Thomson/Oki, I was not interested by the new
products and all the potential problems of production.
1977 to 1979 - Computervision
– Bedford /
CAD systems for the application
integrated circuits
Technical support of the existing customers in
Training courses to the new customers or when
new software release
Supervisor: Patrick
Alias
Why left? : to
start my own company, using the same CAD system
Designer of the first integrated
circuits of digital telecommunications
Starting the activity "custom integrated
circuits" using a of CIT-Alcatel, using a Computervision CAD system (Cadds2)
References: Angelo
Digiovani (G.I.), Alain Dantec,
Supervisor: Jean-Louis
Lagarde
Why left? : My
experience in Custom Design interested the company supplier of the CAD system.
They have offered me a better salary
Design of a card reader for a distributor of
bank notes, a self service gasoline pump, an intelligent display for
airline ticket reservations and one badge reader
References: M.Thévenet,
M.Christolomme, M.Malka
Supervisor: M.Pin
Claret
Why left? : Very
limited possibility of evolution
1964 to 1970 - C.N.E.S. (CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES) - Industrial draftsman – Aerospace mechanical
Centre Spatial de Brétigny, division
"Satellites", section "Structure"
Mechanical structure of the first Franco-US and
the first French artificial satellites. Also schematic,
p.c.boards, wiring list, etc…
I worked on the satellites: Diamant 1 and 2 -
FR1 - EOLE - METEOSAT
References: M.Alain Provost, M.Jean-Pierre Causse, M.Charles Bigot, René Angrand
Supervisor: Joseph
Briot
Why left? : No
more budgets for the space research, no more satellite, no work to do. I left.
- BEPC (Arpajon-France - 1961)
- CAP Draftsman, specialty: general mechanical,
(CETDI/PARIS - 1963)
- "Diplôme de Projeteur Mécanique Générale" (ITP/PARIS - 1966)
- Mechanical and electronic engineering
(Conservatoire National des Arts et
Métiers – Paris – 1965/1970)
- Integrated Circuits Design: in house training
courses / Alcatel
- Computer Aided Design: in house training
courses / Computervision Santa-Clara (CA) and Alcatel Nozay (
- Marketing: in House training courses: COMPUTERVISION (US & Europe)
Nationality
: French
Date of birth : 17 december 1945
Married, 1 child 32 years old, webmaster
Blackbelt in Judo
I like classical music, cinema, car races,
rugby, journeys
Updated:
17 January 2011