Jih-Fang
Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill in 1990. Since then, he has held a
variety of research, management, and leadership positions with IBM Watson Research Center,
United Technologies Research
Center, and
AT&T/Lucent Bell Labs. He has published over two dozens technical papers and
presented research results at prestigious IEEE and ACM journals and conferences.
His expertise is architecting and building large scale software and hardware
systems, and had led many projects from inception to completion in diverse
technical areas, including VLSI layout and routing (IBM research award winner
for achieving 10x speed improvement while maintaining superb layout quality), virtual
reality and computer graphics (review and inspection of jet engine and
helicopter design), design automation and system architectures (simulation
based optimal design). He participated in establishing the VOIP PBX product
line at Lucent and led its intelligent peripherals development (a winner of the
Internet Telephony Magazine Product of the Year Award in 1999). His more recent
activities include leading a successful B2B startup in designing J2EE
application framework and workflow systems – both have been adopted in several
large-scale enterprise business portals. He also served as chief architect and project
lead in AT&T’s EDB (Enterprise Data Bus) initiative that aimed at
consolidating numerous BES’s (Backend Systems), and
created a scalable and fault-tolerant platform enabling rapid development of new
service offerings.
Jih-Fang also enjoys teaching and was as an adjunct faculty
with New Jersey Institute of Technology for several years. He taught advanced
graduate level courses on X Windows/Linux, Java programming, and enterprise
computing (J2EE, .NET, etc.), which were all very well received.
Since joining Unisys in December 2004, Jih-Fang has been
actively engaging in many large proposal opportunities providing guidance and
help in architectures, methodologies, and processes. He serves as the chief
architect and is instrumental in rolling out of the Customer Driven Proposal
Process (CDPro2) and Integrated Portfolio Management (IPM) strategic
initiatives that guide Unisys corporate-wide architecture driven methodology modernization. The processes improve the win rates of mega deals (with value greater than $30 Millions) from less than 20% to over 40%, as shown by internal Six Sigma Lean study.