Jack is a seasoned inventor with 12 patents and always working on more. His most commercially successful patents are assigned to U.S. Surgical Corporation, and cover the safety mechanism and gas valve on laparoscopic surgical instruments. His other patents cover a bicycle transmission that replaces the derailleur, testing devices probe cards) for integrated circuits in wafer form, a thermal connector for high-power solid-state components, and more.

Jack served as President of the United Inventors Association, a not-for-profit umbrella organization for inventor groups in the U.S. and Canada. He is presently the Vice President of the Yankee Invention Exposition.

Jack has been a feature columnist in Inventors’ Digest magazine for the past 12 years writing the “Lander Zone,”. He is a published author of “How to Finance Your Invention or Great Idea”, Nolo’s release, “All I Need Is Money”, and more than 50 special reports for inventors. He also produced, edited and contributed three chapters to the United Inventors Association’s flagship book, The Six Point Master Plan, which was selected from among several books on inventing, and translated and published in Arabic under the sponsorship of King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia.

Jack is a higly sought after speaker at inventor workshops across the country. His fulltime work is mentoring inventors to success through the often perilous path of developing, protecting, marketing, and financing of their inventions.

In his corporate career, Jack held positions of Electromechanical Project Engineer, designing several successful products, and also as a Manager of Manufacturing Engineering. He and his wife, Mary, a high school teacher/speech pathologist, live in Southbury, Connecticut.