The process non-U.S. students go through to apply for college in the U.S. can be daunting. The ability to share grades and academic credentials in way that translates to the U.S. grading system is difficult and cumbersome at best involving manual processes, e-mails, faxes and antiquated steps.
My Aunt out of Texas, saw this need and brought it to me for help. Based on her domain knowledge and my technical prowess, we created a system using our company IMS Link to create an open jobs process to take in requests for services and the ability to track document sending & receipts through process similar to “ticketing”. We were able to centralize all documentation, making it accessible to the parties that needed it, provided billing for services to be paid via credit card and streamlined processes that would take days & weeks to less than 48 hours processing time.
While we were building the ACE solution into a platform for all vendors, one of the vendors offered to purchase the company from my Aunt. While we could have eventually scaled the business to achieve even greater success, the creation of the company and sale of our initial solution offering to a vendor was a big personal win.