Mr. Goade is known worldwide for his historic developments and patents for the plastic card industry.
Notable Achievements:
- 1969 - Developed high usage card for IBM users of hollerith punch systems.
- 1970 - Developed plastic card manufacturing equipment.
- 1970's - Pioneered magnetic stripe and barcode technologies for plastic card applications.
- 1971 - Developed "solid plastic" polyester-based Student ID with variable information for Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma.
- 1973 - Developed laminate to adhere to "wet" Polaroid film for security badges.
- 1973 - Developed polyester-based library cards with bar codes.
- 1977 - Developed first electronic photo identification camera.
- 1983 - Developed magnetic striped plastic cards for Kronos, Inc. electronic card-based systems.
- 1984 - Produced first Teslin-based plastic card in the industry.
- 1984 - Produced first Teslin-based plastic card with variable information.
- 1987 - Developed Security Stripe (Black Bar), concealing the barcode and allowing only infrared scan.
- 1989 - Developed high security identification credential for Baja, Mexico. Identification card contained 21 fields of data.
- 1990 - Produced polyester RFID badges for Texas Instruments.
- 1990 - Identified over 1,000,000 Mexican voters in Baja, Mexico with Teslin-based identification credential.
- 1991 - Developed and produced first Telecard for AT&T, the "TeleTicket."
- 1993/94 - Produced over 55,000,000 Mexican voter credentials for Mexico.
- 1994 - Developed and produced SSI's two card magnetic stripe mailers for Blockbuster Universal card program.
- 1995 - Developed and produced first Electronic Gift Cards for Blockbuster Entertainment.
- 1992-97 - Developed and produced National Identification credentials for Russia, Latvia, Australia, Iran, Croatia, and South Africa.
- 1998 - SSI Custom Data Cards purchased by DocuSystems, Inc.
- 2000 - SSI Custom Data Cards repurchased by Ron Goade and is now SSI Technologies.
- 2000 - Automated systems installed for high-speed lamination, laser imaging, magnetic stripe encoding, packaging, and label application.
