Company

The judgment behind the next experiment.

Shutterbug Exchange Inc. is a Jersey City cleantech R&D venture developing Solar Revitalizer™. We connect product decisions, scientific expertise and disciplined execution around a useful next test.

Frank Jackson, SBX founder
Founder-led product & research

Leadership

Frank Jackson

Founder / Director of Product / Principal Investigator

Frank Jackson leads Solar Revitalizer™ as SBX’s founder, product lead and principal investigator. He secured a $25,000 New Jersey CSIT research voucher and a separate $75,000 seed award, and directed the voucher-funded Montclair State University / CESAC feasibility project to completion on schedule and within budget. His enterprise product and analytics experience informs how SBX scopes experiments, evaluates evidence and coordinates specialist work.

01 / Product strategy & delivery

Make AI usable in consequential workflows.

Frank leads product work where complex data, human judgment and delivery constraints meet. In enterprise AI, he translated financial-document sourcing, extraction and taxonomy-mapping needs into review requirements: which evidence analysts should see, how conflicting values and exceptions should be handled, and what Engineering and QA needed to verify. He partnered across discovery, evaluation, UAT and launch. His platform work connected SQL/Python analysis, customer feedback and experiments to hypotheses and roadmap decisions. That experience brings a concrete product question to SBX: what must a technical system demonstrate before people can rely on its recommendations?

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02 / Technical practice

Investigate the system. Test the evidence.

Frank investigates code, APIs, databases and logs with SQL, Python and local proofs of concept, turning observed behavior into testable product requirements. His analytical work includes a NumPy/pandas comparison of three models across two solar plants, using chronological validation and held-out errors. Added temperature features did not consistently beat the quadratic baseline. CAD-to-print practice connects dimensioned geometry, mesh checks, print preparation and physical feedback. As a research lead, he defines questions and evaluation needs with scientific contributors who develop specialist implementations. These practices connect product judgment with inspectable technical work.

Inspect the solar-model comparison
03 / Research & venture execution

Bring the right expertise to delivery.

Frank recruited scientific and engineering contributors, defined research priorities and managed the Montclair feasibility work. The voucher-funded objectives were completed on time and within budget; subsequent seed support developed internal research and prototyping capacity.

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04 / Commercial judgment

Make each development stage earn the next.

At SBX, Frank connects discovery and feasibility to staged investment: which operator decision to improve, when optional testing earns its cost and what evidence would justify a pilot. The proposed comparison evaluates complete costs, routing errors and review burden across unfamiliar module lots before expanding the physical system.

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Frank’s technical practice combines direct investigation, analytical work, specialist research direction and CAD-to-print iteration. These examples show how each contributes to the Solar Revitalizer™ research program.

Technical investigation and local prototypes

Moody’s / Enterprise AI

SQL · Python · Tableau · Power BI · Claude Code · Codex · VS Code · Docker

Investigated code, APIs, databases and logs, prepared local proofs of concept and translated findings into testable requirements. Partnered with Engineering through production delivery.

Solar Revitalizer™ relevance. Informs source traceability, data-quality checks, exception handling and human review when designing research workflows and routing decisions.

Analysis and experiment design

Google / Product analytics

SQL · Python · Telemetry analysis · Dashboards · Product experiments

Connected behavioral data and customer feedback to hypotheses, experiment interpretation and product priorities.

Solar Revitalizer™ relevance. Informs practical baselines, useful measurements and evaluation criteria: does additional evidence improve the decision enough to justify collecting it?

Configuration and operating practice

Health Recovery Solutions / Workflow tooling

Jira · Confluence · SharePoint

Configured shared intake, ownership, documentation and reporting workflows across teams.

Solar Revitalizer™ relevance. Informs research coordination, versioned protocols, issue ownership and accountable follow-through as a study moves from scope to execution.

Product analysis and quality assurance

SNAP Interactive / Analytical collaboration

Splunk · Funnel analysis · Experiment inputs · Regression testing

Worked with data scientists on behavioral insights and experiments, combining user interviews with analysis and QA.

Solar Revitalizer™ relevance. Informs comparisons that consider both measured behavior and operational consequences, including failure cases and review burden.

Analytical implementation

SBX / Solar-data analysis

Python · NumPy · pandas · Chronological evaluation · Data-quality checks

The separate solar-data study compares three plant-power models using chronological training, validation and test periods. Temperature features did not consistently improve on the quadratic baseline.

Solar Revitalizer™ relevance. Provides a concrete example of comparing models and preserving their limits. The proposed module-intake study requires its own measurements and independent reference findings.

Research direction and interpretation

SBX / Specialist modeling

PyTorch · TensorFlow · Vertex AI · Databricks · MATLAB feasibility models

Directed research questions, priorities and evaluation needs in collaboration with scientific contributors who developed the specialist implementations.

Solar Revitalizer™ relevance. Connects model development and research interpretation to the next experiment, resource decisions and qualified technical collaboration.

Research program tooling

SBX / Modeling and design tooling

MATLAB · COMSOL Multiphysics · Autodesk Fusion 360 · AWS Cloud

MATLAB, COMSOL Multiphysics, Autodesk Fusion 360 and AWS Cloud have been part of SBX’s modeling, design and computing work.

Solar Revitalizer™ relevance. Relevant to numerical investigation, physical layouts and computational workflows. Measurements and calibration determine when a system model can guide a physical experiment.

CAD-to-print practice

CAD and physical prototyping

CadQuery · Python · NumPy · STEP/STL/3MF · Bambu Studio · FDM printing

Uses dimensioned models, geometry and mesh checks, print preparation and physical feedback to iterate practical prototypes.

Solar Revitalizer™ relevance. Informs specimen design, fit and manufacturing constraints for materials research. Qualifying a recovered feedstock remains a material-specific experiment.

Earlier product and operating experience
  • Credit Suisse: Financial modeling and scenario analysis for longevity-market products.
  • Shutterstock: Contributor-facing content operations and IP-sensitive workflows.
  • Penrose Hill (Firstleaf): Product and operations development as employee number three.
  • Celmatix: Clinic implementation and reporting needs translated with scientific and engineering teams.
  • Lot18: Customer insight, loyalty and product-feedback work.

Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Jackson is a Haitian American founder now based in Jersey City. His interest in making, repair and circular technology connects practical product judgment with hands-on exploration.

Education & research

A foundation for the work.

Education
B.S. in Management
Binghamton University, SUNY · 2010
Professional credential
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute
Research coauthor
Recycling Solar Panels for a Circular Economy
2024 research poster with Montclair State University / CESAC collaborators
Inventorship
Solar Revitalizer™
2025 U.S. provisional patent application milestone

Human context & commercialization

Research moves
through people.

Research & coordination

Deborah Philip

Anthropological Impact Consultant & R&D Coordinator

Deborah is a cultural anthropologist and PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. She brings stakeholder research, adoption questions and social-impact analysis to the study, with R&D coordination and budget oversight connecting technical work to its human context.

Commercialization mentor

John P. Anerousis, P.E.

John has advised Frank since serving as his NSF I-Corps Pod Mentor, bringing technology-commercialization experience to pilot packaging, licensing and partnership strategy.

Research support

From resources
to completed work.

$100,000

Across two New Jersey CSIT awards

New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology (CSIT) awarded SBX a $25,000 R&D voucher and a separate $75,000 Clean Tech Seed Grant. The voucher supported completed Montclair State University / CESAC feasibility research; seed support advanced pre-commercial R&D capacity.

Completed venture-development programs

Learn the market.
Build the company.

NSF I-Corps

Completed Northeast regional Cohort 13. Stakeholder interviews and market analysis sharpened the customer and commercialization questions.

Cleantech Open Northeast

Completed the venture-development program, refining customer discovery and the circular-solar business direction.

Founder University

Completed the 12-week startup-building program led by Jason Calacanis, with mentorship and practical founder guidance.

Inventorship / April 1, 2025

One connected
research architecture.

Frank originated Solar Revitalizer™ and documented the broader closed-loop concept in a 2025 U.S. provisional patent application. The architecture connects module assessment, qualified reuse and recovery, secondary materials and manufacturing research.

Press & speaking

Part of the
clean-technology conversation.

Development history

Ambition, in deliberate stages.

  1. 2022

    A circular-solar thesis

    SBX’s founder-led research journey begins with the Solar Revitalizer™ concept.

  2. 2023–2024

    University-supported feasibility

    Completed research with Montclair State University / CESAC, supported by a CSIT voucher.

  3. 2024–2026

    Development & invention

    Seed-supported research capacity; the broader Solar Revitalizer™ concept documented in a 2025 U.S. provisional patent application. Current focus: intake assessment and routing.

  4. Next validation gate

    Test the intake decision

    Planned module study combining qualified reference tests, operator input and independent evaluation.